The things Will and Woody Say are often inflammatory and sometimes downright innapropriate. The…read moremixes just mangle songs and are copyright infringement lawsuits waiting to happen. The women on the show are out of touch. Next time performance reviews come around, be merciless as they have obviously been coddled.

I was recently reading a list called "What White People Like" and 80s music was there. The reason?…read moreApparently, White People like to listen to 80's music because it was the last time "real music" of the pop variety existed. But I doubt this is 97.3FM's reason for focusing on 80s music. Instead, I think this station's 80's music fans are more of the unabashed "I love Madonna" type. No one's trying to be hip here by claiming the 80's were cool. (Come on.) 97.3FM is for people probably of my generation who list Dirty Dancing as their favourite movie, and like to car-jack their friends. This was evidenced when my friend (who for lack of privacy reasons I'll call by her real name, Julie) texted me every time Wilson Phillip's "Hold On" came on the station, which happened to be very often. As the "97.3!!! Turn it on now!" texts built up over the years, I was recently offered a car lift from Seemingly Nice But Secretly Sadistic Julie. When I got in, 97.3FM wasn't playing as usual, so all signs pointed to good. Then she locked the car doors, went for the DVD player and forced me to listen to "Hold On" for its entire duration. I consider this car-jacking. (Still love you, JJ. But I'm going to Mambo No. 5* your arse at the next available opportunity.) Speaking of which, Mambo No. 5 by Lou Bega is something you might hear on 97.3 FM when the younger crowd is listening (night time). At other times I've heard "Endless Love" by Lionel Ritchie and Diana Ross, as there seems to be Golden Oldies hours. (97.3FM is like the FM equivalent of AM radio.) There's also I admit some decent 80s music (so says the Clichéd White Girl), such as stuff by Duran Duran, the Go Go's, Texas and Robert Palmer. Come on, some of his stuff was OK. *Julie's least favourite song of all time and consistently nominated highly amongst Songs That Get Stuck In Your Head lists across the internet. "A little bit of Monica in my life, a little bit of Erica by my side...."

Triple J is a great alternative to mainstream music stations and is famous in Australia for both…read moreits annual Hottest 100 (the worlds largest music democracy) and its Unearthed program. Unearthed focuses on unknown Australian acts and is responsible for finding Aussie superstars such as Missy Higgins, Grinspoon and the new Perth wunderkinds San Cisco along with a host of others. The program is now so succesful Triple J has launched a dedicated digital radio station playing solely Unearthed music. If you get bored of modern music, and have heard all the 80's / 90's classics too many times you should definitely check out Triple J.

Triple J is Brisbane's (and the rest of Australia's) alternative music station. They have a…read moreserious aversion to what they call 'bubblegum pop' and instead play plenty of home-grown Aussie bands and well as music that is actually new instead of music six months old but touted as 'new.' They play a little bit of everything, from rock and hip hop to electro and alternative, but mostly alternative. Once a year, on Australia Day, the amount of people listening to Triple J increases a hundred fold when they put on their Hottest 100 songs of the year before, voted by the listeners.

I love channel 9 because I got to do a video school and learn production and on camera and writing…read moreetc and had a tour of the place. I felt intimidated every god dam single time I went I was nervous and I never told them how nervous I was. I look back and think it so funny now. I shouldn't because I suffered badly from a panic attack disorder that completely ruled my life and it was painful and lonely. But I was nervous of literally everywhere like university, on the train, walking alone etc in my 20s. I wish they would have a reunion or meet up. I loved that so much. I grew up loving tv stations so much as a child. I would recommend the video school for anyone but back then there was not half as much connections to join groups who wanted to make a production. I think I wanted to work on a shopping channel or be Australia's Oprah (as a laugh and I think not likely LOL) or be the make up artist for the beautiful weather girls as a child I just loved them so much as a child and the beauty pageants and telethons. I really wanted to work in tv ads and we made a student ad that was my script. I loved all the old aussie tv ads on youtube and video clips for music. If life were like a kaleidoscope of ads and video clips what would I be ? a razzamatazz ad or something fun from the 70s , 80s or 90s with a lot of colour. I think when I did the first channel 9 course I did not know what I wanted other then experience and making a tv commercial for a chocolate bar with my script. but by 1999 I did the next one on camera and my icons then were shopping channel Cecilia Yates and Deborah Hutton.

96Five is a good option to play in the car if the kids are on board and you would rather not have…read morethem singing along to 'I wanna take a ride on your disco stick' yet can't stand the thought of playing the Wiggles. They are a family orientated Christian radio station without being overly religious (unless it's a Sunday morning). They play a bit of a mix of Christian rock/pop and regular music that's kid friendly ie no Lady Gaga or rappers asking 'where dem girls at?' and especially no ads for AMI getting men to last longer in bedroom.

Of course I'm a fan! I have a segment on Afternoons with Clare Blake, every other Wednesday,…read moretalking about all things food. Setting that aside, who wants to be in Brisbane listening to a Sydney broadcast? Not me. Afternoons and Drive on 4BC are still Brisbane based so we should be supporting these shows so that there is still local content on radio.

i must say it was much better before, i miss all the lovely music they used to play , it is too…read moremuch talking now, they talked about all sorts of things and it is quite useful as i learned some stuff and it was something new, but i wish they cut this down to a certain portion,for example from 3.am to 6.00 am, the trouble is it is all talking show now, so i changed my station now. thank you for all the entertainment for so many 2x years 882 ON 4 BH.. I hope you go back to your old program again best regards michelle

Every shopping centre needs a newsagent. Where else do you pick up the weekend paper, test your…read moreluck with a lotto ticket or scratchie, or grab that last minute birthday card? News on Newmarket is a nice little newsagent in the Reading Newmarket Shopping Centre. It does not have the biggest range of greeting cards, magazines and stationary but it does have all the basics. It is the place I go to pick up the Weekend Australian and the staff are always happy and chipper. The store is fairly small and when there are a lot of people checking their lotto tickets there can be a little bit of a line but this only rarely happens. On a whole, News on Newmarket is your fairly average newsagent but definitely a necessary addition to the shopping centre.

GO is to television as B105 is to radio. (The uninitiated to B105 can see the station review on…read moreYelp). GO is there to capture a large proportion of the mainstream audience, particularly children and adults who like their accessible comedy. I watch GO for Seinfeld, Reno 911 and South Park for the most part. This isn't a channel that generally introduces new shows, but replays old episodes of popular programs. Typical shows that get a decent recycle, sometimes several times a day, include (aside from the abovementioned): I Dream of Jeanie Bewitched The Smurfs Green Acres The Looney Tunes Show The Hills (yep, that skanky "reality" show) The Big Bang Theory The Nanny Gossip Girl Animaniacs Spin City The Flintstones Just Shoot Me Big Bang Theory Green Acres Entertainment Tonight TMZ They'll also play movies late at night that get popular rotations on the main free-to-air stations such as Miss Congeniality, National Lampoon's movies and Clueless. I'm someone who doesn't mind watching and re-watching my favourite television shows from bygone series. If you're not of this genre, however, you might find the GO channel a little trying in its repetitiveness. Then again, you get what you pay for - and this channel is free, being owned by Channel Nine.

Now, even though McDowall is generally considered 'the sticks', it doesn't mean that you have…read moreabandon all the culture and trimmings of an inner city lifestyle while you're out there. Places like New Paramount News make things like high end magazines easier to obtain. 'Yes!' your inner voice exclaims, you're not so isolated that your only choices of literature are either Woman's Day or Women's Weekly. For your general girly type of magazine, you can get your mits on some Frankie, Oyster, Monster Children, Fallen, Code, and Dumbo Feather (which I've only seen distributed at select inner city stores, so I was quite impressed). If you're after a more specific magazine, you've got two aisles to peruse that house magazines on a variety of subjects including architecture, craft, high art, to extreme sports, road tripping, fishing and gaming. The other thing that really impressed me about this newsagents is that they have a section which sells local people's handmade wares. There's some handmade local birthday cards for sale as well as some beautiful locally handmade semi precious jewellery on display. What a newsagents! Not only do they do they give people in the severe northern suburbs a wide range of 'literature' choices to choose from, they also support their community in their own commercial ventures. Do drop in if you find yourself in McDowall. It's not just your ordinary newsagent.