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COUNTDOWN IS BACK THIS JANUARY, 2019 ...  ON rage !!!!!
Stay tuned below with regular Countdown full archival information for each Countdown episode rage shall be airing every Saturday throughout January ...

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ohnoitisnathan
Dec 28, 2020 - 4:56PM
Re: No Retro January

OK, Triple J Hottest 100 will hopefully NOT encroach on February. I just checked, and it airs on radio on 23 January 2021. That leaves the following weekend (30-31 January 2020) for rage to get this out of their system. I think they have of late aired the Hottest 100 on rage the weekend after it airs on Triple J.

Brett (2)
Dec 31, 2020 - 10:11AM
Re: No Retro January

ohnoitisnathan
Brett (2)
sadly because of the pandemic for much of the year all staff including those at the ABC have had to work from home. Even now only a very small percentage of the workforce is back in an office. They cannot access older format tapes from the archive for digital conversion from home.
I get this, but there have been some excellent vault episodes throughout the year. Surely some of the same people are involved in retro month? If things have really been that bad for rage staff, I don't want to give them ideas... but why haven't they dropped the ball on the vault episodes as well? Yes, they were off for a few weeks with Dr. Who repeats, and there have been a handful of really short vault episodes - but other than that, they have been consistently producing them each week, with lots of music videos that haven't been aired since they were new releases in the late 80s/90s.
The vault episodes with clips from the 80s and 90s are a different kettle of fish to complete Countdown episodes in the archives. The former have been digitised, the latter not.

stephen
Jan 9, 2021 - 12:10AM
Re: No Retro January

I have had a shocker and forgot about RAGE retro until tonight.

It's turned out a godsend for me, because I didn't miss anything for the 1st time since the 1993 retro started.

lbrow65
Jan 9, 2021 - 6:45PM
Re: No Retro January

I just saw this afternoon the ABC broadcast a New Wave Special. From the clips I saw they were all Australian (Jo Jo Zep Taxi Mary, and Edith Bliss Heart of Stone). Was it all Australian? Did anyone happen to record it?

Luuuc
Jan 10, 2021 - 8:35PM
Re: No Retro January

Last night's playlist
https://www.abc.net.au/rage/playlist/saturday-night-9-january-2021-on-abc-1/13005118

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Jan 10th, 2021 - 8:35 PM
Gary
Jan 10, 2021 - 11:06PM
Re: No Retro January

Some awesome clips in there and I missed it :unamused: Will keep an eye on next Saturday night for sure

Michael
Jan 19, 2021 - 7:54PM
Re: No Retro January

So this Saturday i see we have a Metallica special to celebrate 40 years. Must have took a bit of time pulling this one together. Surely 5 episodes of Countdown wouldn't have taken much more effort? Bring on February!

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