Welcome, to the fifteenth anniversary of a concept, that has served as a reminder for almost a score, about the delays you will get in Queensland once the clocks in the southern states flip into daylight saving mode on October 2.
This is your DST Guide for 2022/23.
First things first: There will be no serious longform editorial in this year’s DST guide, like there was in 2019, 2020 and 2021. There is a pretty good reason for this: as we stated 273 days ago, back in the inaugural KWnetwork Select (which incidentally, is coming back on Boxing Day for a second outing: we are going to EXTRAordinary lengths to keep the KWnetwork Select from becoming another long LOST Kuttsywood’s Couch concept), that on October 1, 2022 we will make a significant announcement concerning the KW Network. On that date, I can now reveal: we will unveil the first five of fifteen initiatives that will guide us in a year which is significant anniversary for this site, and for the KW Network as a whole. The next five initiatives will be revealed exclusively over social media, between October 1 and Boxing Day, while the final five initiatives will be revealed back here at Kuttsywood’s Couch, in the Boxing Day KWNetwork Select.
Those final five initiatives revealed on Boxing Day include some very significant ideas I want to work toward in the long haul.
Keep your eyes out, next Saturday, to witness the beginning of a brand new era, our biggest evolution in our site’s almost 15 year history: and it begins with a celebration.
However: This year’s DST guide is being written in a period of great sorrow, for Australia and the Commonwealth of Nations: the passing of Queen Elizabeth II: the only British monarch, for many, we’ve seen thus far in our lifetime: a monarch that closed the 1982 Commonwealth Games (the fortieth anniversary of it’s opening is on Friday), well and truly opened World Expo 88 (approaching the 35th anniversary of it’s opening in April 2023) and visited the length and breadth of Queensland over eight visits over her 70 year reign, the first being part of the marathon Australian tour of 1954 (the first by a British monarch), the final visit to this state happening in late 2011.
The majority of this intro was written four days out from the funeral on September 19, and and even after the pageantry that occurred on September 19, even writing this, is almost making me break out in tears.
Our response to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II was made just after 6am on Friday September 9, across all three Twitter accounts. It is only fitting, that we end this intro, with that response.
“The end of the second Elizabethan age is going to be the one moment you will know where you were, when you heard the news.
Thank you Ma'am for everything you gave us for 70 years.”
9Gem (SEQ (Metro): 92 (95 HD), GC (regional): 82 (85 HD): Rest of QLD: 81 (no HD), Foxtel 164 (264 HD, metro only)
This service will be airing on Queensland time.
9GO: (SEQ (Metro): 93/99, GC (regional): 83/88, Rest of QLD: 82, Foxtel 162)
This service will be airing on Queensland time.
9Life: (SEQ (Metro): 94, GC (regional): 84, Rest of QLD: 83, Foxtel: 163 (unavailable to regional subscribers as of posting)
This service will be airing on Queensland time.
9Rush: (SEQ (Metro): 96, unavailable to GC (regional), Rest of QLD and on Foxtel)
This service will be airing on Queensland time.
9 Main channel (SEQ (Metro): 9 (90 HD), GC (regional): 8 (80 HD), Rest of QLD: 8 (80 HD), Foxtel 100 (209 HD)
-News/Public Affairs:
Nine’s locally produced 4pm, 6pm and 5:30 Gold Coast bulletins, will air live into Queensland, however ACA, Today/Today Extra and late night news programming will be delayed by one hour unless major news breaks.
-Sport:
It's absolutely given, that the 2023 Australian Open will be airing live into Queensland in January 2023. There may not be however, the traditional warmup tournaments leading into the two week event at Melbourne Park.
-Programming:
Christmas fare (Lego Masters Celebrity special, and Carols by Candlelight) will be airing one hour behind the southern states.
Stripped out programming such as the climax for the 2022 season of The Block, Love Island Australia and the 2023 edition of Married at First Sight will also be airing in Queensland one hour behind the southern states, for the entire DST period.
ABC News Channel (Statewide FTA: 24, Foxtel: 642)
This service will be airing on Sydney time for all platforms.
ABC ME: (Statewide FTA: 23, Foxtel: 723)
This service will be airing on Queensland time, unless you have a pre-iQ3 Foxtel setup or a iQ3/iQ4/iQ5 that is not connected to a FTA antenna: where it will run on NSW time.
ABC Kids/ABC TV Plus (i.e. the Bluey channel): (Statewide FTA: 22, Foxtel: 152)
This service will be airing on Queensland time, unless you have a pre-iQ3 Foxtel setup or a iQ3/iQ4/iQ5 that is not connected to a FTA antenna: where it will run on NSW time.
ABC TV (Statewide FTA: 2 (21 HD), Foxtel: 102 (202 HD)
This service will be airing on Queensland time with Queensland content (local ABC News at 7pm), unless you have a pre-iQ3 Foxtel setup or a iQ3/iQ4/iQ5 that is not connected to a FTA antenna: where it will run on NSW time and with a NSW 7pm ABC bulletin (airing at 6pm QLD time).
Sydney NYE: Tune into Sydney City Council (https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/sydney-new-years-eve) and Veritas on KW on Twitter for updates as we get closer to the end of 2022.
SBS World Movies: (Statewide FTA: 32 (HD only), Foxtel: 432 (HD), 433 (SD)
This service will be airing on Queensland time, unless you have a pre-iQ3 Foxtel setup or a iQ3/iQ4/iQ5 that is not connected to a FTA antenna: where it will run on NSW time and with NSW advertising.
SBS Viceland: (Statewide FTA: 31 (HD only), Foxtel: 170 (SD) 270 (HD)
This service will be airing on Queensland time, unless you have a pre-iQ3 Foxtel setup or a iQ3/iQ4/iQ5 that is not connected to a FTA antenna: where it will run on NSW time and with NSW advertising.
SBS Food: (Statewide FTA: 33, Foxtel: 171)
This service will be airing on Queensland time, unless you have a pre-iQ3 Foxtel setup or a iQ3/iQ4/iQ5 that is not connected to a FTA antenna: where it will run on NSW time and with NSW advertising.
NITV: (Statewide FTA: 34, Foxtel: 172)
This service will be airing on Queensland time, unless you have a pre-iQ3 Foxtel setup or a iQ3/iQ4/iQ5 that is not connected to a FTA antenna: where it will run on NSW time and with NSW advertising.
SBS: (Statewide FTA: 3 (30 HD), Foxtel: 104 (204 HD)
This service will be airing on Queensland time, unless you have a pre-iQ3 Foxtel setup or a iQ3/iQ4/iQ5 that is not connected to a FTA antenna: where it will run on NSW time and with NSW advertising.
7Flix (SEQ (Metro): 76, GC (Regional): 66 , SC (Regional): 66, Rest of QLD: 77, Foxtel: 158)
This service will be airing on Queensland time.
7Mate (SEQ (Metro): 73 (74 HD), GC (Regional): 63 (No HD) , SC (Regional): 63 (64 HD), Rest of QLD: 73 (74 HD), Foxtel: 157 (257 HD).
This service will be airing on Queensland time.
7Two (SEQ (Metro): 72, GC (Regional): 62, SC (Regional): 62, Rest of QLD: 72 , Foxtel: 156)
This service will be airing on Queensland time.
Seven (SEQ (Metro): 7 (70 HD), GC (Regional): 6 (60 HD), SC (Regional): 6 (60 HD), Rest of QLD: 7 (70 HD), Foxtel: 107 (207HD)
News/Public Affairs:
Seven’s Brisbane-produced 4pm and 6pm news services (of which the Brisbane 6pm bulletin is edited drastically in regional Queensland), Gold Coast-produced 5:30 news service and Maroochydore produced 6pm local news services for regional QLD will air live. The Latest, Sunrise and the Morning Show, will be delayed into Queensland… unless major news breaks.
Sport:
The summer of cricket (Home Ashes + BBL), as well as the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, final stages of the V8 Supercar season (with the traditional Mt Panorama 1000k race back in it’s traditional early October slot) and early 2023 AFLW season, will be airing live into Queensland.
Programming:
Australia’s Got Talent, will be airing delayed into Queensland.
10 Shake (SEQ (Metro): 13, GC (Regional): unavailable as of posting, Rest of QLD: 54, Foxtel: Likely to be 168, unavailable as of posting)
This service will be airing on Queensland time.
10 Peach (SEQ (Metro): 11, GC (Regional): 52, Rest of QLD: 52, Foxtel: 167)
This service will be airing on Queensland time.
10 Bold (SEQ (Metro): 12, GC (Regional): 51, Rest of QLD: 53, Foxtel: 166)
This service will be airing on Queensland time.
However: A-League Women’s and A-League Men’s coverage will most likely be live.
10 (SEQ (Metro): 10 (1/15 HD), GC (Regional): 5 (50 HD), Rest of QLD: 5 (50 HD), Foxtel 110 (210 HD)
News/Public Affairs:
10’s sole Brisbane news bulletin will again be prerecorded (all 18 minutes of it) this year, while Studio 10, The Project and Sunday Project will be delayed into Queensland.
Sport:
Melbourne Cup will be live.
Programming:
The Bachelorette Australia, The Real Love Boat and I’m A Celebrity Australia 2023, will be will be airing in Queensland one hour behind the southern states during the DST period.
Sky News Regional: (GC (regional): 53 , Rest of QLD: 56 , Foxtel (which is actual Sky News) 103)
This service will be airing on Sydney time for all platforms.
The 2002 Federal Cabinet Papers release, will also be on Sydney time (glasses chinking in a house in Sunnybank Hills).
Ray Hadley Morning Show (from 2GB)
A full relay is taken by the following stations:
-4BC Brisbane (part of Nine’s radio division: 882AM) 8am-11am during DST and is live into Brisbane.
-4K1G Townsville (indigenous community station) Most likely takes Hadley live.
-4RO Rockhampton (ARN-owned AM talkback station) most likely takes Hadley delayed.
A partial relay (10am-12pm) is taken by these following stations (all owned by Resonate Broadcasting): 4HI (Emerald 1143 AM and is further relayed to: Dysart 945 AM, Moranbah 1215 AM, Blair Athol 88.1 FM, BHP Blackwater Mine 103.7 FM, Clermont 102.1 FM, Peak Downs 106.9 FM, Goonyella North 92.5 FM, Goonyella Riverside 93.7 FM, Rolleston 100.1 FM, Minerva 104.9 FM), 4LG (Longreach 1098 AM), 4LM (Mt Isa 666 AM, Cloncurry 693 AM), 4SB (Kingaroy, 1071 AM), 4GC (Charters Towers 828 AM), 4VL (918 AM in Charleville and further relayed to 96.5 FM in Cunnamulla, 98.7 FM in Tambo, 93.9 FM in Wyandra, 104.5 FM in Quilpie and 106.1 FM in Augathella), 4ZR (1476 AM in Roma and is further relayed to 104.5 FM in Mitchell and 105.3 FM in St George) 4DB/4EM (branded as Hot Country QLD, 1629 AM in Kingaroy, 1611 AM in Dalby, Emerald, Goondiwindi, Roma and St George). This partial relay is most likely delayed during DST.
Australia Today (4hr program for SCA’s Listnr app: last two hours airs on 4GR Toowoomba and Triple M Fraser Coast 9-11am): Terrestrial radio will be on Queensland time: however Listnr feed will be live: unless you choose to listen on demand.
Hit Network Drive (4-6pm, airing on B105 Brisbane, SEA FM GC, Hit Fraser Coast, Mackay and The Whitsundays, Tablelands, South Burnett, Mt Isa, Maranoa, Townsville, Emerald, Darling Downs, Cairns and CQ and the Listnr app) Terrestrial radio will be on Queensland time: however Listnr feed will be live (if you choose to listen to a out of state Hit station): unless you choose to listen on demand.
Triple M Drive (4-6pm, airing on 4MMM Brisbane, Gold FM GC (Leisel, Liam and Dobbo from Brisbane), Triple M Fraser Coast, Mackay and the Whitsundays, Townsville, CQ, Bundaberg and Cairns, 4GR Toowoomba (AB and Elliot from Cairns) and the Listnr app (both products) Terrestrial radio and Listnr feed will be live (dependent on which QLD MMM station you are listening to): unless you choose to listen on demand.
The biggest losers in Queensland out of this dynamic shift in syndicated product has been Nova, with the loss of drive/post drive slots outside Brisbane.
Repackaged Fitzy and Wippa (6-7pm Nova 106.9 Brisbane): due to the nature of it being a repackaged product: it won’t necessarily be live, as it consists of highlights of Nova Sydney breakfast.
Nova Network Drive (3-6pm Nova 106.9 Brisbane) Terrestrial radio will be on Queensland time: however online feed will be live (if you choose to listen to a out of state Nova station): unless you choose to listen on demand.
ARN has picked up a slab of slots on it’s newly O&O regionals, for it’s syndicated products, plus a key change for one product.
KIIS/MIX Network Drive (4-6pm, KIIS 97.3 Brisbane, 5-7pm Star 101.9 Mackay/Whitsundays, Star 102.7 Cairns, Star 106.3 Townsville, Hitz 93.9 Bundaberg)
Terrestrial radio will be on Queensland time: however iHeartRadio feed will be live (if you choose to listen to a out of state KIIS/MIX station): unless you choose to listen on demand.
Kyle and Jackie O Hour of Power: (6-7pm KIIS 97.3 Brisbane, 7-8pm Star 101.9 Mackay/Whitsundays, Star 102.7 Cairns, Star 106.3 Townsville, Hitz 93.9 Bundaberg, Hot 91.1 Sunshine Coast)
As this is a highlight reel of the KIIS Sydney brekky show, it won’t necessarily be live.
Christian O’Connell Show (7-8pm KIIS 97.3 Brisbane, 5-6pm 4MK 1026 AM Mackay, 4CC Gladstone (with repeaters as far north as Rockhampton), 4BU Bundaberg, 4CA Cairns, Zinc 96.1 Sunshine Coast)
As this is a highlight reel of GOLD FM Melbourne’s breakfast show, it won’t necessarily be live.
Jam Nation: (6-7pm on ACE-owned, 4BH 1116 Brisbane and ARN-owned 4MK Mackay, 4CC Gladstone (with repeaters as far north as Rockhampton), 4BU Bundaberg, 4CA Cairns, Zinc 96.1 Sunshine Coast)
As this is a highlight reel of WSFM Sydney’s breakfast show, it won’t necessarily be live.
“Brisbane’s Pure Gold: River 94.9”
The long term future, is now squarely focused on what ARN intend to do with River 94.9 in Ipswich. Due to the undertaking made at the time of the Grant/ARN merger, no job losses will occur in the regional network for two years, which has struck River 94.9 in a interesting predicament: where the obvious solution when 4KQ was sold couldn’t happen (94.9 being rebooted using 4KQ talent) due to 94.9’s position as a regional station that ARN was acquiring: hence being stuck to the no job losses undertaking, and the position that if any reboot happened it would occur without key planks: the 4KQ demise has spawned no less than three new breakfast radio products (4BC acquiring the services of Laurel, Gary and Mark at brekky and former music director for 4KQ Brent James, 4BH switching from a Sydney-sourced product to a Brisbane produced one with former ARN talent Bob Gallagher and the launch of a local breakfast product for Smooth Brisbane (a digital-only station run by Nova, that previously had no local presence at all), and many other talents either retired, or are waiting for the call from 4BH.
ARN knows they will need to replace the lost 4KQ in the Brisbane marketplace: you don’t go from 20% share to under 10% in a short timeframe in a market like Brisbane without making great strides to fix this issue, especially as River 94.9 is currently not a participant in Brisbane’s metropolitan surveys (run by GfK on behalf of Commercial Radio Australia) and the station has historically had to fork out money to do their own survey work (via regional specialists Xtra Insights), despite 75% of the population of the Ipswich RA1 licence area (that River 94.9 is the sole commercial licensee) are living in a area overlapping with the Brisbane RA1 licence area, and thus can get potentially chosen to do a GfK survey for the Brisbane market, which is done eight times a year.
In addition, River 94.9 will never be a candidate for standalone digital (unlike the Gold Coast and Mandurah in Western Australia) because of being so close to Brisbane, and the lack of space on the channels allocated for digital radio for a dedicated Ipswich RA1 multiplex: unless significant work happens. In addition, the sole licence status of the Ipswich RA1 market also makes a digital expansion on similar lines to Mandurah potentially a riskier venture, unless part of the multiplex is allocated to new licences, both commercial and community.
Digital outside the capitals, Mandurah and the Gold Coast (whether it be DAB+ or DRM) must not happen until the Ipswich issue is sorted: much like how the licence for Perth’s third commercial television channel was issued and was ultimately launched a year before aggregation on the east coast began.
As well, there is a long-term issue just up the Toowoomba range: with the recent decision to extend the ACMA AM to FM conversion scheme (which has seen several solus AM stations move to the FM band) to competitive markets (i.e. markets with multiple operators), there will be a real chance that the three existing AM stations serving Toowoomba (SCA’s 4GR and Super Radio’s 4WK and 4AK) will eventually go on the FM band and potentially boom into the Lockyer Valley, where River has had a healthy amount of support due to Toowoomba also only having one commercial FM station: SCA-operated Hit Darling Downs. Unlike what some others think: I reckon there will be huge support for FM conversions in the Toowoomba region (particularly from Southern Cross Austereo: as it would allow their Triple M network station in the market (the historic 4GR: Queensland’s first commercial radio station, approaching it’s centennial in 2025) to convert to FM: because if all three AM stations serving the Toowoomba market took up the conversion offer it would lift the market’s FM choice to be on par with Cairns and Mackay (who will also get a FM conversion for the sole AM station in those markets).
Our prediction is simple: River 94.9 will join the metro ARN network (most likely in early January 2024), however unlike Hot Tomato (which simply changed to who local staff was ultimately answerable), River 94.9, will most likely join ARN’s Pure Gold metro network (a network 4KQ was attached to until the sale to SEN earlier in 2022) and undergo a very significant makeover, to target Brisbane listeners once more (instead of focusing west of Ipswich: and Brisbane-Toowoomba commuter traffic, especially if Toowoomba’s radio market dramatically changes with a 100% FM marketplace, and Lockyer Valley advertisers leave River in favor of shopping their commercials around Toowoomba), most likely picking up Pure Gold network programmes from both 4BH and KIIS 97.3 while other 94.9 mainstays will be axed (i.e. QTQ news simulcast) to make way for a more robust evening schedule, most likely centred around a WSFM Sydney/GOLD Melbourne/River 94.9 Brisbane (Ipswich) networked drive product, that could be very marketable to ARN’s regional stations: especially those likely set to convert to FM in competitive markets.
There will also need to be a push by ARN to merge the Ipswich RA1 and Brisbane RA1 market, and potentially use 8C/8D as a fourth Brisbane DAB+ multiplex that would carry River, and a potential new FM entrant (especially if any frequency changes in Toowoomba RA1 leads to similar happening in Brisbane/Ipswich), in return for beginning the groundwork for using what multiplex of 8C/8D that isn’t used by Brisbane, to launch DAB+ on the Sunshine Coast, with ARN being the initiator.
Well, that is it for this year's DST guide: A reminder to join us on October 1, for our big announcement. We are expecting you, and we hope to begin a process that will be significant for this site and the KWNetwork as a whole.
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