Please note that the following is my own personal opinions and views, they are not intended to harm anyone.
I’ve been raised on Breakfast radio,well about 12 to 13 years worth. Mum decided that morning cartoons were making us late for school and morning TV was replaced by the radio.
We hopped from station to station when they changed the hosts’ or the music became crap, I’m pretty sure we had covered all of the different commercial stations over those years almost twice. These days I’m a Triple M girl, The Cage has been a regular thing for the past year or so, I’ve excluded it from this comparison, its like a good hobby and will probably make me a bit bias or ruin my further listening experience. Another reason is because out of the six major Melbourne commercial FM stations, it’s the rock and sport station and it doesnt compare properly to the other five stations because of this.
For the purpose of this excecise I have chosen to stick with commercial radio, I have my reasons and they are long winded. So after ruling out Triple-M, I considered Gold 104 next, and then realisesed, it’s the solo great classic hits’ focused station, then I ruled out Nova and Fox I don’t find either of them too appealing for some reason, that left me with two stations. Vega 91.5 fm and Mix 101.1 fm, they seem to have similar mottos’ about their music; the eighties, nineties and the naughties, and are both aimed roughly at the 25 to 30+ age group and they even seemed as though they would appeal to parents with primary school aged kids.
Monday morning at about 7.30am I begun picking at the mechanics of the Tracy and Tim show. It was like starting a Monday with a bang we are talking about one very busy show. It was broken up with very short sharp segments of talking, traffic reports, and commercials every 15 minutes, around 2 to 4 songs and a News report every half hour on the half hour or hour even. Their talking bits were very short, perhaps the longest batch of talking went for maybe 5 minutes, and those bits of talk went along the lines of Tracy’s Trash twice, a mini debate, a promotion of a special event and 2 short phone-polls’. It was the kind of show I needed to pay attention to in order to keep up. It would have been perfect for the mums and dads out there with getting the kiddies ready for school, mum and dad could join the laughs of two fellow parents and the kids could have been grooving away to the music. The chemistry of the presenters was perfect, plenty of laughs and they were the contagious kind of laugh. I feel Tracy and Tim might just be the next Grubby and Deedee of the radio world, destined to keep us laughing for the next decade at least. The commercial breaks were about the only major put off, still not nearly as many as Triple M, but other than that, it had a tight colourful format, with plenty of everything, their names, the time, the songs, the station etc. It was a bit of a feel good show.
