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well said Keith, love reading your comments. You are missed from Radio, in fact just to make you feel older, it was people like you back in the 70's at 2UW that got me into this wonderful industry.
All the best in retirement and enjoy your travels.
I love road trips and regularly listen into local radio stations as I drive. It's just a putty that many "hub radio" centres have destroyed true local radio.
Have fun.
Richard Daniel
Keith,
I love what you're doing and the insights. As a former commercial announcer who worked in regional QLD for a long time, I agree - much more can be improved upon in terms of online and on air presence in a lot of these stations even if they aren't competing for survey points. You'll be pleasantly surprised when you move through Townsville though (or so I hope)as a former jock at 4TO we did surprisingly well with our tools, skills and resources.
Fare ye well, drive safe on the Bruce Hwy.
I could not agree more with Keith regarding "KIX Country".Every year I go to the Tamworth Country Music Festival & work on a special event radio station there called Festival FM 101.5,which is operated by Fairfax Media & during the time that Fairfax owned "KIX Country",some of their announcers would come into Festival FM & try & big note themselves as something special & knew so much about the country music scene,which they did not.Now that Grant has them in their stable,I can finally speak up.