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The great shame of this otherwise tremendous deal is that ARN needs to divest itself of 4KQ, which is rating as well as it ever has in the Brisbane market.
Rather than seeing 4KQ fall into hands that might want to completely change the format (why am I thinking a sports network?), and given that Grant Broadcasters will still be operating in Geelong, couldn't an arrangement be made for Grant Broadcasters to buy 4KQ as part of this deal?
Even within the ARN Pure Gold stations, 4KQ was unique in both it's music (Brent James is in a league of his own with 60s, 70s and 80s music) and in being all things Brisbane.
And we certainly don't want 4KQ to go the way of 2CH in Sydney.