El Saif Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 The latest DAB+ Radio Survey is out. Looking at the major cities for total listeners > 10 years old: SYD 1. Edge 2. ABC Jazz 3. Coles MEL 1. GOLD 80s 2. Coles 3. KIIS 90s BNE 1. Coles 2. 97.3 The 90s 3. OLDSKOOL HITS PER 1. SMOOTH 2. OLDSKOOL HITS 3. Double J ADL 1. Double J 2. Buddha Hits 3. equal Coles and ABC Jazz See: https://www.gfk.com/en-au/insights/report/radio-audience-measurement-survey-summary-reports/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxon Hall Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 Surprised about Coles in Melbourne and Sydney. I wonder why it would rate so high? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betty boop Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 All those stores its sbs chill for me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markm1111 Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 Double J for me, with occasional ABC Jazz. Great for the car 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warweary Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 i really enjoy double j, and grandstand for the cricket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groovem Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 ABC Sydney and SBS Chill for me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussievintage Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 I listen to DAB+ all the time in the car. When the local ABC news, or 24 hour news, or Radio National, get boring, I have MBS light, ABC classical, ABC Jazz, and a few other things like 4KQ lined up on the presets. FM is dead!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLXXX Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 On 03/10/2019 at 5:43 PM, aussievintage said: I listen to DAB+ all the time in the car. When the local ABC news, or 24 hour news, or Radio National, get boring, I have MBS light, ABC classical, ABC Jazz, and a few other things like 4KQ lined up on the presets. FM is dead!! I find ABC classical more satisfying to listen to in the car using FM rather than its DAB+ simulcast. (I find typical bitrates on YouTube quite ok for classical music, but not the 80kbps "nominal" (less for the actual audio) used by the ABC for its classical DAB+ station.) I don't bother with MBS light as I find the 64kbps nominal bitrate too frustrating to try to listen to. In Brisbane, in our house we use DAB+ for the clock radio to give us the news in the morning, but not as a substitute for FM. It's clear that some people are much more tolerant of the low to medium bitrate HE-AAC used for DAB+ radio in Australia, than others. A small number of the DAB+ stations do have (relatively) high actual bitrates. 4KQ doesn't, at least not at the moment. My DAB+ radio currently shows a nominal bitrate for it of only 48kbps. The bitrate for the audio would be lower. For my ears the audio sounds like like low bitrate mp3. Both 4BC1116 and Macquarie Sports are currently broadcasting in Brisbane with a nominal bitrate of 104kbps, despite the content mostly being "talk" rather than music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theoldnic Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 On 02/10/2019 at 11:03 PM, Saxon Hall said: Surprised about Coles in Melbourne and Sydney. I wonder why it would rate so high? If you can tune into "80's" or "90's" stations (two separate Sydney DAB apart its' generic channel i think(i don't remember) is WSFM) , Coles is not too bad compared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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