Canberra radio station comes out of closet

It wasn’t very successfully sarcastic.

Music favoured by actively gay people tends to be pretty good, usually. 2CA play some really awful music.

people need to remove the pole from their arses just long enough to embrace the concept of SARACASM.

*blinks*

..wow.

i’m guessing someone’s very bored, and lonely on a friday night to think of this…

BerraBoy68 said :

After all, why would a business (and that’s what it is) that could have broad community appeal target a minority market?

Maybe its because the Gay Community have a higher disposable income than the general population. If you can establish yourself in this market than it can attract good advertising income.

I dunno, it’d kinda help if the “humorously intended” posts were, um, actually funny?

(full disclosure here – I present Q-Radio on 2XX FM on a rotating cycle every couple of weeks – what makes it a gay program, for mine, is the discussion bits – community announcements, news, opinions – more than the musical playlist, which varies all over the map from Nirvana to the Andi and George Band to Aimee Mann to They Might be Giants to The Mountain Goats depending on how I’m feeling on a particular day)

free market in a free society the question is more about want than need.

I doubt the gay community is in agreement about the need for a gay radio station and I suspect they’d like it to be FM if they did.

Having said that I think you might be missing the humourous intent of this post.

Does the gay community need a radio station? Pathetic. So, has the struggle to be accepted by the mainstream community (which is fairly wide stream) come to turning a radio station gay? What makes them gay? A DJ? Pet Shop Boys or Bros on repeat?

I was sick of FM rubbish and went back to the golden oldies on 2CA and 2CC and now this “it’s tough to come out” bollocks. It’s a business not a person. Who cares? If the DJs were dwarf throwing tattooed endomorphs with wigs would that make the news or catch your “feel good and identify with a minority field day” or justify the music they play?

Only problem with your theory is that the 2ca ads are still aimed at pensioners … when I hear an ad aimed at the luvvies, I’ll believe you … I listen to 2ca occasionally, when the whining RN presenters start talking about their own kids or irrelevant detail about their own lives or, like the morning presenter, interrupt the interviewees constantly with little details about themselves!

BerraBoy68 said :

If this is true it’d be a coincidence only, I think. After all, why would a business (and that’s what it is) that could have broad community appeal target a minority market?

Nothing against homosexuals but it just wouldn’t make good business sense (unless of course their listening audience is already so small that catering for a specific minority will actually boost their numbers).

Why would any business seek out a niche? Back to business school for you.

A business with a smaller market share than any given target niche might well choose to give up on the mainstream.

Why would RiotACT give up on the global internet market to concentrate on just the ACT? Same reason it would make sense for a struggling radio station to target a sub-culture.

hmmm i have never listened to this station so my comments may not be acurate but have they actually stated ‘were gay’

If this is true it’d be a coincidence only, I think. After all, why would a business (and that’s what it is) that could have broad community appeal target a minority market?

Nothing against homosexuals but it just wouldn’t make good business sense (unless of course their listening audience is already so small that catering for a specific minority will actually boost their numbers).

I don’t think they’ve come out and stated they’re gay. It’s more like they’re flirting with the concept – bi-curious, if you will.

What’s TRB? Is it like LRB?

I was in a shop that plays 2CA this week and it sounded the same to me. Awful songs. There’s no way they’d be playing ANYTHING by TRB, let alone Glad to be Gah.

Best playlist in town! I’m a convert.

Do you mean gay or ghey?

I think I speak for everyone here when I say thank you for clearing that up for us.