SEN Adelaide is gone for good and there are three suitors for the old 5DN frequency, which is owned by ARN.

The Australian Radio Network’s Adelaide General Manager, Steve Rowe, has told radioinfo SEN wrote to him terminating the lease on the 1323 licence and closed down the audio feed to the station on Wednesday at 3pm.

“The company appears to have failed. I’m not sure what is happening in Melbourne, but the contract here in Adelaide has been terminated.”

radioinfo asked Rowe if he had received approaches from other potential lessees of the licence: “We have had approaches from three parties, but no firm proposals as yet.”

Is Jeremy Cordeaux one of them?

“No comment. You would not expect me to comment on the details of any approach, would you?”

Rowe has told radioinfo that ARN is putting together a plan for the next steps, and that simulcasting Mix 102.3 is only a short term option.

ARN has “kept the ABA informed about the changes in format, as it is required to do, and we will be talking to them again next week,” says Rowe. There is no fixed timetable for new programming to be implemented on 5DN 1323 at this stage.