Oh and @mbroky, could you please ask engineering why they don’t/can’t/won’t fix the ‘copies’ of the the FM signals that turn up all over the FM band in Cooma and Goulburn markets?
In partnership with Relay For Life, Radio Goulburn’s Eagle FM and 2GN will be broadcasting live specials this weekend, including a 24 hour live marathon by Eagle FM’s Dylan Finch and Matthew ‘MJ’ Brokenbrough.
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That might be the first time ever that Eagle FM has had a live announcer from midnight to dawn?
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Probably beyond 10am even… I think they’ve only ever had a live breakfast shift and that’s it?
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Not sure what they had when they started back in 1997. Probably more live and local shifts I suspect. Though they have been using the same music log as Snow FM for as long as I can remember.
I remember first hearing ‘MMMBop’ on Eagle FM. I can remember the promos on 2GN for the new FM station too; would have been late 1996. Definitely just 2GN in early 1996 as they were still airing Take 40 Australia. I distinctly recall hearing ‘Boombastic’ at #1 in glorious AM mono.
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TV_E does it again! Thanks!
I note that 105.5 Coffs Harbour started on 30 June 1997, which coincided with my holiday up there. I caught the test broadcast as well.
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Seems like a fair few FM stations in Regional NSW launched in 1997…did licences suddenly become cheaper around that time period or something?
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A few s.32 licences were all approved at this time.
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I think you meant s.39. 
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Yeah, that.
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Yep, the s39 (supplementary FM licence) scheme. Now FM was the first I believe, though I think that was pre 1992, when the Broadcasting Services Act was passed.
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May 19 1990 for NOW FM Moree, The day I stopped listening to AM radio 
& yes it was the first in Oz followed by Power FM Nowra
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XLFM & 3GG are on the lookout for a new Music Director/Announcer: Forever Classic XL FM 96.1 and 3GG Music Director/Announcer | radioinfo
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Add to this. I’ve been in the mountains all week and have been locked to XLFM. What other capital stations share their playlist? It’s easily now my favourite Australian station. Great playlist!
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2GN Goulburn (who are set to convert to FM by the end of the year) & 3GG Warragul shares the same playlist as heard on XLFM.
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This quiz that has been on 2CA Canberra, Eagle FM Goulburn, Snow FM Jindabyne, 3GG Warragul and 6iX Perth this past week and continues this coming week is the most drawn out quiz I have ever heard on radio. John Burgess asks a caller a question, and if they get it correct he rings them again in an hour to ask the next question, and so on. So to win the car someone has to answer ten questions correctly over ten hours. If they get an answer wrong he calls someone else the next hour. While he is asking the question various television quiz music is playing in the background, including the Sale of the Century music. I’m finding it all very annoying.
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its a playlist 6IX could consider using if they get to convert to FM in Perth too since they are also owned by the same network.
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And people think the end of Hotseat is drawn out with the news preview before the last question
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Is Burgo actually hosting any show at present on the network? What’s his agreement with them?