New Canberra Radio Station

busgirl said :

…anyone remember when the number plate of the original KIX 106 van went missing?…and then mysteriously re-appeared once there was a reward of the financial kind on offer?….

No,but obviously you do… How much did you get for it?

…anyone remember when the number plate of the original KIX 106 van went missing?…and then mysteriously re-appeared once there was a reward of the financial kind on offer?….

lobster said :

“KIX 106 point 3. Rock of the 90’s!”

Yes, and a few months after KIX adopted the Rock of the ’90s slogan in early 1990, stations in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane began using it as well.

Gungahlin Al said :

Skid, you may well be on the money, but mentioning their name so many times – wouldn’t that reinforce the hit rate for them?

It all depends on how Google do their indexing, but filling a page with the phrase itself doesn’t typically alter a search index score, as its so easy to game for spamdexing purposes, that search engines moved onto other factors long ago.

By mentioning their name and subject content, yes, I am effectively keyword stuffing, but frankly all hope was lost when a link without a rel = nofollow html attribute flag was put into the article body.
Legitimate organic Pagerank increases through backlinks from a high-value source like RiotACT are the stuff of search engine optimisation wetdreams, and what SEO services would gladly sell your firstborn for.
(RiotACT now puts rel = nofollow attributes on comment links by the way, just not in the articles themselves…)

(By the way, there’s more information from Google about SEO operators here)

Country music? Running scared?

Hahahahahaa

wouldn’t be more like boot scootin’ back to the corner?

Nambucco Deliria said :

The ‘history of country music’ on their website is amusing.

It also appears to be plagiarised.

If you have an AM receiver that’ll get it, there is already a narrowcasting country station broadcasting on AM, namely Goanna on 1647 kHz from the old 2XX site on Barton Hwy. With the usual telephone quality audio sound. 1323 kHz has been available for ages in Canberra but nobody uses it.

The ‘history of country music’ on their website is amusing. I especially liked the assertion that traditional British music – the bedrock of all American country music – was ‘contaminated by church and Gospel music’.

Yes yes this country music is all good, but what about the western stuff ?

I like both types

A country music station? Well that’ll go well…

Skid, you may well be on the money, but mentioning their name so many times – wouldn’t that reinforce the hit rate for them?

On a related issue, what is it with all the bloody AM stations here in Canberra? 666, ABC RN, just up or down the highway a bit and you have the equivalents on FM band. But no such luck here in the nation’s capital.

Given that so many devices now (mpg players, phones, PCs) only have FM receivers, isn’t it time the ABC at the least ditched AM here in Canberra?

(Please?)

when?? can’t wait!

2XX (98.3fm) plays something like 25 hours of country and folk a week – if no-one wants to listen to that, why are they going to listen to your station Ryed1?

“KIX 106 point 3. Rock of the 90’s!”

Will this station do daylight savings announcements correctly? or will it still confuse Canberrans with no FM/Internet/TV/Friends?

Damn, my bullshit detector just overloaded.
The first article generated from a so-far single comment account (ie: a potential throwaway), posting a shill ‘opinion review’ piece about a country music (very niche in Canberra, but apparently someone wants to take a commercial risk on it) narrowcasting, and being strangely shy about what they know of future staffing arrangements, all while linking to the page full of contact details for the KIX advertising team, in case someone wanted to find out more?

If KIX want to use RiotACT as a platform to announce a commercial entity, be up front and just announce it, that yay everyone gets a chance to comment on it. Who knows, we might have gone easy on it the first time.
If KIX don’t want to risk that or only want to profile boost, pay the basic RA advertising rate?
If KIX want a Google pagerank, just hire someone to SEO the shit out of their website?
Or better yet, RiotACT’s duty editors could maybe exercise some quality control and _turn the piss poor stories down_?
Standards are a good thing, lest you slip into hosting blogspam and turfjobs…
If I wanted to see marketing fluff paraded as news content, I’d watch Today Tonight.

So…still nothing decent on the radio in Canberra.

grunge_hippy said :

didnt we have a kixx 106 (sp?) station back in the 80’s?? it was 104.7 and kixx that launched at the same time.

We did – see: http://actbus.net/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=7079

Why is it that we get these odd random posts about 2CA?

Am I the only one sensing a little bit of anti Capital Radio astro-turfing going on here? Sure, they may not have a fairly small audience with most programmes hovering around the 7000 listener mark, but they do a grear job I reckon, and have made some solid changes in the past couple of years.

Running scared? Country music? Please.

You could have come up with some better astroturf than that surely?

Play it Warren..

“Grandpa pissed his pants again
He don’t give a damn
Brother Billy has both guns drawn
He ain’t been right since Vietnam

“Sweet home Alabama”
Play that dead band’s song
Turn those speakers up full blast
Play it all night long

Daddy’s doing Sister Sally
Grandma’s dying of cancer now
The cattle all have brucellosis
We’ll get through somehow

“Sweet home Alabama”
Play that dead band’s song
Turn those speakers up full blast
Play it all night long

I’m going down to the Dew Drop Inn
See if I can drink enough
There ain’t much to country living
Sweat, piss, jizz and blood

“Sweet home Alabama”
Play that dead band’s song
Turn those speakers up full blast
Play it all night long”

Thats what I call country music…

As far as I can see KIX is a narrowcast AM station, I hardly think the Commercial and National broadcasters will be shaking in their boots. I would be interested to see if the Canberra FM still owned the rights for the KIX name in Canberra as a previous mutation of what is now MIX106. I’d prefer goodtime oldies anyday over country, if someone held a gun to my head and made me switch from a decent FM station.

didnt we have a kixx 106 (sp?) station back in the 80’s?? it was 104.7 and kixx that launched at the same time.