Wollongong Radio

[tdenyer1990]

Grant was newsreader for The Edge/CADA

[TV-Expert]

Former Wave FM workday announcer, Michael ‘MJ’ Brokenbrough, has moved to Nova 96.9 in Sydney, where he has taken on the role as Operations Manager for Sydney & the Nova Network.

New Nova adventure for MJ

[matt86]

@Ant5476

As promised a photo of the Wingecarribee Council Tv Tower at the Gib between Mittagong and Bowral which I took this morning. The photo is taken from the south of the tower.

It looks like 2ST are using two mixed polarity array broadcast antennas, they are midway up the tower on the left hand side., a lot lower then 40m max antenna height which would be just below the UHF antenna stack. .They are facing due west, between Mittagong and Bowral.

I could not make out the broadcast antenna for music fm which is lower down the tower, and mixed polarity accord to its ACMA Licence specifications.

2WYR/music fm have a single mixed pole on the western side of the tower not very visible in the picture

[Ant5476]

Great spotting, it looks like all the community fm antennas are actually higher up on the tower than 2ST.

2ST has the highest licenced antenna height of then all.

[tdenyer1990]

This is old news. He’s been there a while now.

[crankymedia]

@tdenyer1990

old news. He’s been there a while now

New news to here, wasn’t posted earlier.

[TV-Expert]

i98FM's Illawarra Convoy raises over $2Million - RadioInfo Australia

[Abesty]

i98FM Christmas ID

i98FM - Christmas Ident (December 2022)

[thesub1]

Brilliant. SCA should’ve done more localised content like this for their regional TV and radio stations.

[tdenyer1990]

Love this a lot!

[thesub1]

i98FM are counting down the 100 Hits of 2022 today (New Years Day).

Wouldn’t it make more sense to count them down on New Years Eve?

[TV-Expert]

Wendy Gee WAVES goodbye to Wollongong - RadioInfo Australia

[Alex_Aliheim]

Wave 96.5 has a new manager…

[Laoma]

Hope it can be more like 2ST with the music format.

[Alex_Aliheim]

I actually didn’t mind the format when Wendy was in charge

[TV-Expert]

According to this post on the ARN Regional thread, Gavin Flanagan is the new GM for Wave FM, replacing Joel Gosper, who has moved up north to New FM Newcastle to present drive. Prior to his new role, he was GM for 2ST/Power FM from just down the road. He also holds the role of Area Lead for ARN Regional’s NSW stations.

[dxnerd]

I would put the Power100 rock format on Wave if I was in charge. You’d have to ditch the ‘Wave FM’ branding though as it doesn’t suit a rock station. Obviously Power 965 can’t be used. Although, Wollongong is much more than ‘Steel City’ these days so I’m not sure how popular a very male skewed rock station would be there.

[Ant5476]

Just gets me thinking, if 9 purchases the WIN network and i98 is sold to Grant, what does Grant do with the programming of Wave and i98?

Would they sacrifice the ratings of i98 to make Wave number one by putting i98 on the 2ST or Power 100, log or keep i98 similar on the Wave log.

[Brianc68]

@Ant5476

Just gets me thinking, if 9 purchases the WIN network and i98 is sold to Grant, what does Grant do with the programming of Wave and i98?

Would they sacrifice the ratings of i98 to make Wave number one by putting i98 on the 2ST or Power 100, log or keep i98 similar on the Wave log.

Good question. I’m picturing the jumble that is K-rock & Bay FM.

[thesub1]

I would put the Power100 rock format on Power94.9 as a clear point of difference.

Given the overlap of WaveFM, those who do not prefer rock could do to 96.5FM.