2XX fm

I for one would like to see a more regular news service. Many community stations suffer from listeners changing station at the top of the hour to hear the news. Pardon the partial self-promotion, but take a look at Australian Independent Radio News.

Both good shows – Hit Parade of Yesterday plays the hits of the 20’s and 30’s – at times it kind of feels like appearing in your own Woody Allen movie – but it’s a really nice glimpse into a whole different world – in a comfy, daggy kinda way.

Know your product is also great – I did that one for a couple of years so am honourbound to say so but a great source of all types of Oz music.

For everyone else out there, I’m glad you enjoy the station but I didn’t post looking for a big lovefest, I think it’s just as valuable to know what you think could be better about the station as well (and I know that most of the posters here have the odd opinion about what could be better in most of Canberra 🙂

“Know your product” is an excellent show. Real, independent Australian music. Sat after 4:30 pm

I like the Hit Parade Of Yesterday…but in all honetsy, most of my radio time is taken up by the commercial AM stations.

Oops, thought I’d mentioned that AD, it’s 98.3fm

IMHO, best times to listen are 7-9am, 12-2pm and 4-6pm – these are the generalist shows, the rest is more specialised – which is great if there’s something you don’t get to hear much – check out the full program grid at http://www.2xxfm.org.au/programgrid.htm

Strongbad… haha so good to hear it… excuse my ignorance but what is the frequency on 2xx??

Wait. I got mixed up with another station. Ignore me, it’s friday arvo.

(Note: This doesn’t mean I don’t like 2XX!)

I like 2XX. At home (North Belco) and work (North Symonston) I get very little or no reception though, so I can’t listen to it very much.

Yeah, the IP thing is something I’m considering RandomGit which is why I’m floating the idea more than anything at this stage.

Fair points Jay and Maelinar – happy to say it wasn’t me bumping my head but still pretty funny. The Ease on down the road thing can be a bit tricky, we need to tell people that we have the segment even if there’s nothing in the folder but yeah, sounds like a bit of a long way of going about it.

Don’t know if there are any Homestarrunner fans here but Strongbad sums up community/college radio in 5 words in one of his email segments – dead air um dead air. At least we’re doing better than that. 🙂

I generally don’t listen to radio that much. Pulling invective from RA sounds a treat though. Muddy IP waters but a treat nonetheless.