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Ash Long is a servant of 3AW. If this new station is going to be as bad as the Melbourne Observer and the Age believe, why are they so scared of it? Isn't competition meant to be a good thing?
This new talk station will have little or no inpack on the 3 other talk stations in Melbourne 3AW 693, ABC 774 & SEN 1116. I'll give it 6 months before 1377 AM will go back to a easy music format again.
MTR 1377 AM will not last 6 months against 3 other talk stations 3AW 693, ABC 774 & SEN 1116.
Jag3146, whoever you are, you are wrong. And you don't know what you are talking about. Ash Long is not a servant of 3AW. I, in fact, pay THEM, to air our weekly Melbourne Observer commercial spots. The new radio station is not in competition with our newspaper. I am not scared of a new radio network in town, I welcome it.
I disagree with the claims that it won't last 6 months. I think there will be some lineup changes, but i think it will work. Possibly not as good as 3AW because their listners are quite loyal. 3AW will loose a small percent, but nothing to majorly impact them
I've really enjoyed Vizard this morning, some interesting people (imagine his black book!) and Price had a good morning with Aker and Sam.
I'm glad they've used the 2GB jingle pack on MTR, sounds tight. No-one can throw stones at them for that, everyone does it!
So far, so good. Interesting to see how Martin King will go.