Sports Entertainment Group (SEG) will make SEN WA available on DAB+ radio in Perth from June 1.
The digital distribution includes locally produced shows such as Breakfast with Belly & Goss (with Peter Bell and Tim Gossage, heard Mondays and Fridays), Breakfast with Scotty & Goss (with Scott Cummings and Tim Gossage, heard Tuesdays to Thursdays), Mornings with Mark Duffield (9 to 11am, Monday to Wednesday) and Sportsday with Peter Vlahos (5 to 6pm, Monday to Wednesday) and netball feature show, Centre Court, with WA-based Kelsey Browne.
Specialist shows include including Whateley (with Gerard Whateley), Dwayne’s World (with Dwayne Russell), The Run Home with Andy & Gazey (with Andy Maher and Andrew Gaze), Locked In with Kane Cornes, Sportsday (with Gerard Healy and Ken Hinkley), and AFL Nation – featuring dedicated Eagles Nation and Dockers Nation coverage – along with cricket and major sporting events.
SEN WA is already available via the SEN App, and has the leading two audio WA shows on the most recent Podcast Ranker (SEN WA Breakfast, ranked #227 and Mornings with Mark Duffield, #251). With streaming (up 41%), podcast downloads (up 16%) and podcasts listens (up 26%) all increasing year-on-year in Western Australia, this new distribution method means that even more sports fans can listen on DAB+ radios or in the car across the Perth metropolitan area.
SEN WA is one of three Perth SEN stations under the SEN brand alongside SENTurf on 1206am and SENTrack on 657am. SENTurf can also be heard on 32 frequencies across regional WA*, SEN Peel DAB+ in Mandurah, SEN Spirit 621am Bunbury and 1494am across the South West, SEN Goldfields 1611am in Kalgoorlie, and SEN’s Mid West, Pilbara and Great Southern services available via the SEN App.
Lachlan Smith, SEG General Manager Commercial – WA said:
“Launching SEN WA on DAB+ in Perth is an important step in making our content even more accessible for sports fans across the Perth metro area,” Smith said. “We already see strong engagement with SEN WA through the SEN App, and adding DAB+ gives listeners another simple way to tune in to our locally produced programming, specialist AFL coverage and major live sport. It strengthens our overall WA offering and provides greater reach for both audiences and partners.”
Should SEN wish to, they could also purchase an AM signal for SEN WA, with Vision Australia Radio announcing this month they intend to drop their AM frequencies, including 990 AM Perth.
*SENTurf: 1206am in Perth; 1449am in Mandurah and 1449am Pinjarra across the Peel Region; 1404am Busselton across the South West; 104.9fm Albany across the Great Southern Region, 100.5fm Wyndham, 88FM Derby, 104.5fm Broome and 105.7fm Kununurra in the Kimberley Region; 88FM Dampier, 101.7fm Karratha, 92.5fm Port Hedland, 88fm Newman and 87.6fm Paraburdoo in the Pibara Region; 96.5fm Carnarvon and 95.7fm Exmouth in the Gascoyne Region; 1008am, 87.5fm, 88.6fm Gerardton, 104.7fm Meekatharra, 104.1fm Mount Magnet and 105.3fm Kalbarri across the Mid West; 89.5fm Esperance, 99.7fm Leinster, 104.5fm Laverton, 104.3fm Kalgoorlie/Boulder and 106.7fm Kambalda across Goldfields/Esperance; and 95.9fm Merredin, 88.7fm Southern Cross, 88fm Northam, 88fm York, 88fm Moora, 88fm Katanning, 88fm Narrogin across the Wheatbelt Region and on the SEN app.