LOL. When I think of 2GB listener I think of MUCH worse than “hip replacement”
I think for me I just can’t accept Australia doesn’t have a proper, broad based rock music station that is entirely MUSIC focused. Other countries have them - NZ, US, Canada.
Yet here Triple M can’t be satisfied with being a proper rock station that’s music focused. They have to also try to be a talk station and a sports station as well. It just doesn’t work.
While some may be offended by the “b” word I’m certainly not one of them. I agree with you. In my opinion Triple M aims lower demographically that actual rock stations overseas like Absolute Radio or The Sound (NZ). Those stations seem to understand that a broad spectrum of people like rock music and many of their listeners drive Audi’s and not utes (not that there’s anything wrong with utes)
To Brian68 - OK - I also have to add that for ages I thought your name was Brianca until you mentioned in a post that you were male. I looked again and saw that what I thought was an “a” was a six!
I’m having an identity crisis. Apart from Triple J, I regularly listen to all of those radio stations throughout the course of a week. I’m not sure which of your descriptions best applies to me and which tribe I belong to.
I’m a 50 plus female who listens to Triple M -not by choice exactly but I would rather listen to any type of rock hits ,classic or newer than teen pop or ‘rap crap’ ,Hit 105 or Nova.At work I would much rather listen to my own choice of music from my iPhone and Bluetooth speaker but. I’m not allowed to at work
That Radio Today article is breathtaking for a few reasons.
They quote Craig Bruce with an air of relevance, distorting his position as a now ex radio company employee who now mentors and manage. Other side of the fence completely.
To read of SCA giving him a golden farewell is another slap in the face to many long term staff, many who’ve worked longer and been key contributors. Many are made to feel unwelcome by management and to those in the outside world, subjected to surprising treatment (no surprise to me, it’s happened too frequently).
Credit to Sam for knowing when it’s time to move on, plenty in programming and management who lack his confidence of moving on and instead wallow in the ‘club’ they’ve created.
Arguably metro MMM has bogans as their target market because bogans make up a much higher percentage of the population here than what they do overseas… (argubaly only about 10% of New Zealanders are bogans - compared to at least 30% over here).
