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Resonate Radio offloads most of its stations

leethalweapon

leethalweapon

leethalweapon said:
Rex Morris and Guy Dobson have offloaded the Australian regional radio assets of Resonate Radio. The sale leaves them with stations they are expected to retain in Hawaii.

radioinfo.com.au

Resonate Broadcasting's Queensland stations sold to Jason Morrison - RadioInfo Australia

"What's occurring around the world is showing that local broadcasting is starting to emerge strongly again... when there's not much else left in local...
radioinfo.com.au radioinfo.com.au
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Interesting side note.. I was in Las Vegas for NAB back in 2015, staying at Polo Towers... as im going up i the elevator, i notice the guy wearing an NAB badge around his neck and say "I can see by the neck badge youre here for the same reason i am". WE talked, he handed me his card.... it was one of the Resonate big cheese leaders, i forget which one though

I wish their stations streamed. They used to have website but went all Facebook... and honestly? In this day and age, I can kinda see why.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
They used to have website but went all Facebook... and honestly? In this day and age, I can kinda see why.
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You may have noticed that KRKE's "website" is nothing more than a single page, maintained by me on my site and accessed via a URL redirect from krke.fm, with a banner logo, a second banner promoting our special programming, a huge button to access the stream, another banner giving the owner's e-mail address for potential advertisers to reach him at, and the bottom banner promoting eightieschannelmusic.com where I sell a handful of out-of-print CD titles.

More and more, I see what was the usual "website content" moving to station apps.
 
Looking at the article, it appears the new owner is not going to make any format changes or do any mass firings. I guess Australia's FM radio scene is doing better than the U.S. FM radio scene.
 
ted chittenden said:
Looking at the article, it appears the new owner is not going to make any format changes or do any mass firings. I guess Australia's FM radio scene is doing better than the U.S. FM radio scene.
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They own way more AM's then FMs
Interesting that theyre keeping the Hawaii stations they own.

They arent the only aussies to own US stations. Frontier Media in Texas Alaska was 100 percent owned by aussie citizens
 
I used to work on those stations before Resonate Broadcasting took over.

I worked at the 4VL/Triple C FM combo in Charleville (which was also the hub for the Hot Country Network) in both 2003 and 2006 when they were owned by Smart Radio (Brad and Judy Smart), and then in 2008 at 4HI Emerald when they were owned by SCA before being divested and sold to Smart Radio.

Smart Radio sold up a few years later to the Maquarie Network; then Macquarie sold to Resonate.

In fact, with Geoff Speed running the show (as mentioned by the new owner), this year will be his 20th year in the job, taking over from... me!

Back in 2006 I was the Acting Operations/Network Manager, hired on what was supposed to be a six week contract (that became six months) as a bridge between the leaving Operations Manager and Geoff who was to take over. Before that, Geoff ran the pub across the street from the radio station, that I lived in both in 2003 and 2006.

His son, James, who started with the company as a 14 year old panel op on Saturdays back in 2003, now works for SCA as (I believe) Group Content Director in Perth (a major metro market).

The radio industry really is a small world!
 


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