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Melbourne to get new talk radio station

Posted by Paul • Wednesday, February 24. 2010 • Category: domestic radio

Melbourne will get a new talkback radio station in 2010, when 3MP drops its long held easy music format. Targeted to go head-to-head with market leader 3AW, and to a lesser extent, the considerably more moderate 774 from the ABC, 3MP will hire the high-profile Steve Price from Sydney's 2UE as program director and breakfast announcer, along with the conservative Herald-Sun writer, Andrew Bolt.

The end result, however, may simply be to split 3AW's audience, and leave the ABC's 774 Melbourne at the top of the ratings.

RTE digital radio stations now streaming

Posted by Paul • Sunday, June 22. 2008 • Category: domestic radio

Ireland's national broadcaster, RTE, has now launched internet streams of the digital stations that started in August 2007.

The stations available are: RTE 2XM (alternative rock music), RTE Digital Radio News, RTE Junior, RTE Gold, RTE Radio 1 Extra, RTE Pulse (Dance Music) and RTE Choice; streams for these stations and RTE's FM stations can be found on the RTE website.

Furthermore, RTE has historically used only Realaudio streams; but now Microsoft Windows Media streams are also available.

Australian Radio Ratings, Survey 3, 2008

Posted by Paul • Tuesday, May 13. 2008 • Category: domestic radio

Nielsen Media research have released the results of the third 2008 radio ratings survey for Australian metropolitan stations, with some surprises in a couple of markets.

Continue reading "Australian Radio Ratings, Survey 3, 2008"

7HO gets its lucky number back

Posted by Paul • Sunday, February 17. 2008 • Category: domestic radio

After a number of years known as "HOFM", Hobart's original commercial radio station has returned to its original name from 1931 of 7HO. This goes against the trend of radio stations in Australia to drop the digits from their callsigns which reflect the state in which they are broadcasting (in this case, the seven refers to Tasmania).

Fiji radio now streaming.

Posted by Paul • Friday, February 8. 2008 • Category: domestic radio, streaming

The Fiji Broadcasting Corporation has taken leaps and bounds to improve its website, over the last year, and now all of its six radio stations are streaming over the internet. This now gives the rest of the world a great opportunity to hear from a country that has been rather inaccessible on the radio bands up until now.

The stations are:

Radio Fiji 1: News, weather, culture, religious programs in Fijian and English. [Stream]

Radio Fiji 2: News and information in Hindi. [Stream]

Bula FM: Popular local and international music, in Fijian. [Stream]

Radio Mirchi: Hindi pop music. [Stream]

Radio Fiji Gold: 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's music, targetted at the 35-60 age group. [Stream].

2Day FM: youth station, playing a wide range of modern music. [Stream]

New history of Sydney's 2SM

Posted by Paul • Wednesday, February 6. 2008 • Category: domestic radio

Sydney's Radio 2SM, currently languishing near the bottom of the ratings, with a faily half-hearted talk format, was once a ratings powerhouse in the city, commanding large audiences with a very successful Top 40 format.

2SM: A "Super" Story documents the history of the station, from its beginning in 1931, through to its low-rating head of a network that encompasses most of New South Wales and Queensland today.

Anyone wanting to listen to the station's current incarnation can click on one of their three streams:

MP3

Windows Media

Realplayer

Radio Sweden to stop German radio broadcasts.

Posted by Paul • Tuesday, February 5. 2008 • Category: domestic radio, shortwave radio

After 69 years on air (note: German text), Radio Sweden will be closing its German shortwave and mediumwave broadcasts on March 30th, 2008.

According to the report, the German service has been particularly successful on the internet, so a podcast and on-demand service will remain at www.radioschweden.net. This popularity has come at the expense of the shortwave broadcasts, however, where listener numbers have dropped dramatically.

Radio Sweden's German podcasts are available here.

Commercial FM radio comes to Launceston, finally.

Posted by Paul • Wednesday, January 9. 2008 • Category: domestic radio

Almost 28 years after commercial FM radio came to Australia, Launceston in Tasmania is finally set to have its own commercial FM station. 7LA, the major local commercial station, currently broadcasting on 1098 kHz, was scheduled to start test transmissions on 89.3MHz on January 8th.

Launceston's other commercial station, 7EX, is also expected to move to 90.1MHz at some point in the future; the station currently relays Melbourne's Sport 927 horse racing station. It is likely that the station will change format when it moves to FM, and the Sport 927 broadcasts will transfer to a narrowcast AM licence, as an FM commercial licence is too valuable to waste on horse racing.

ABC Darwin streaming online

Posted by Paul • Sunday, December 2. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, shortwave radio, streaming

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's local station in Darwin, 105.7 ABC Darwin, is now streaming online meaning that now, local ABC stations in all state and territory capital cities are available via the internet.

ABC Darwin carries many of the programs broadcast on VL8A, VL8K and VL8T, Australia's only remaining domestic shortwave transmitters.

Victoria's 3GV streaming - and to become Gold 1242

Posted by Paul • Thursday, November 29. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, streaming

There's not all that many regional Australian radio stations streaming their programs on the internet, but as of this week, there's one more: 3GV, broadcasting from Sale in eastern Victoria, on 1242 kHz.

However, the station will only exist with this name for one more day; according to The Spy Report, the station will be relaunched on Friday November 30th, 2007, at midday, with a new name of Gold 1242, playing oldies.

The station's stream is here.

On-demand, Indian style

Posted by Paul • Friday, November 9. 2007 • Category: domestic radio

All India Radio, India's public broadcaster, has a novel on-demand service: users can select one of a number of songs from a list, dial a number on their phone and then enter a code. The song selected will then be queued to be played over a transmitter in Chennai, Kolkata or Mumbai, during selected times.

ABC Canberra now streaming online

Posted by Paul • Wednesday, October 3. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, streaming

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's local station in Canberra, 666 ABC Canberra is now streaming its programs online, after testing on and off for the past couple of months. The stream is available here.

FM Crystal radio

Posted by Paul • Tuesday, September 18. 2007 • Category: domestic radio

We've all seen plenty of AM crystal radios before, but how many of us have seen one that does FM? Solomons Music have a couple of designs.

Now, if only someone could design a crystal DAB or DRM set

Link: via Make

ABC may double its radio networks

Posted by Paul • Saturday, August 25. 2007 • Category: domestic radio

When digital radio is introduced to Australia in 2009, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation might double the number of networks it broadcasts, according to a report in today's Sydney Morning Herald.

Presumably the new networks would include the currently internet-only stations DiG, DiG Jazz and DiG Country.

New digital RTE stations Ireland, no internet streams yet.

Posted by Paul • Tuesday, August 21. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, streaming

Last month, Ireland's national broadcaster RTE opened up four new digital radio stations, using DAB: RTE 2XM, specialising in new music, aimed at the youth market; RTE Digital Radio News, a 24h news bulletin station; RTE Gold, playing music from the 50s, 60s and 70s; and RTE Junior, targetted at children.

There were no internet streams available for the stations on RTE's website, so I contacted RTE to find out if there were plans for this in the future; RTE's response was: "Longterm yes. However, at the moment it's only at trial stage.".

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