Nova 106.9

Really the only decent radio station in Brisbane. And that doesn’t make it good. New songs, no idiotic Djs, not too bad. I wish they still had no more than two ads in a row. Brisbane needs more radio stations with funny, smart people on them or just songs and some ads.

When Nova started up and was trying to takeover B105’s pop music domain in Brisbane, they had a ‘never more than two ads in row rule’ and made the promise to sound different. B105, with its endless ad breaks, lost a whole bunch of listeners to the awesomeness of this new radio station and for a while, it was possible to listen to decent music on the radio without an endless barrage of targeted advertising. It was short lived, however, and now Nova and B105 sound exactly the same, playing the same 10 Rhianna and Beyonce songs at a time over and over with a healthy amount of ads in between and douchy disc jockeys making lame jokes throughout the day.

This Brisbane FM radio station, newer than its rivals (such as Triple M and B105), is probably one of the most popular radio stations in the city.
The station embraces Top 40 pop, mainstream music that some people think is actually alternative (think My Chemical Romance), genuinely good music (Florence and The Machine) and some genuinely bad music (Bieber*, snippets from TV’s Glee, etc).
There isn’t a popular modern music style that is shunned here (except the obvious: country & western; marching band music), with a healthy dose of hip-​hop (unfortunately family-​safe, though there is some Jay-​Z) and on some nights and early mornings that trancey-​techno-​y sort of come-​down music people who take drugs in The Valley listen to. (How music like this does the trick is a miracle to me. Sober, it always makes me dream about ripping out the car stereo and throwing it out the window.)
Nova’s website tries to be hip in a mainstream Top-​40 kind of way and manages to almost achieve it, or hits the mark close enough to masquerade as such. I can imagine the day-​time runs means many offices play this station quietly in the background. Nova is an advertiser’s paradise, and it’s kind of fitting that when you go to Nova’s site to see all of these advertisements and competitions, and not one clear reference to what’s playing on their actual station (Oh, yeah. Nova’s a radio station, too.). At least Triple M’s website has this clearly listed and is honest in what it is. I’m starting to think my two-​star rating of the poor station was a bit roughly done.
If Triple M can be 2.5 stars, Nova is more of a clear 2 stars.
I’m sorry if you like My Chemical Romance. But if you do, Nova currently offers you guys the chance to win the Ultimate My Chemical Romance Experience, aka meeting them at The Big Day Out.
Likewise regarding my Katy Perry sentiments, but fans should visit the site: there’s always an update on her. At the moment she plays a dork in someone else’s video clip. Oh, and that whole Russel Brand thing.
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*Bieber: my apologies if I’ve spelled this incorrectly, but if I go to the extent of searching for the correct spelling by typing his name into Google I’m becoming part of the problem, no?