what kind of equipment would you need to broadcast on the FM Band??
must be expensive.
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Anyone know what song was playing today after 5pm on New fm. 105.3 kate Tim and joel
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Try ringing the station and see if they can tell you?
4968 0105 or 13 10 09
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The show is produced by NOVA the podcastâs can be found here they donât play the music but normally name the song/artist, otherwise you could ask at Nova 96.9 (Sydney) Facebook page.
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No point talking to Nova - they supply the program, sure, but the playlist is done from Newcastle.
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Great Air Check,
What was the timeframe of 2NX going to X13, X107. and finally to NX Fm?
The station did not sound as hot as it did when it was X13 / X107.
I remember picking it up on the car radio in Oatley when it was X13 on 1341khz before the fm conversion. It was very hot, and from memory they did 13 songs a row.
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Thanks @AndiCee for the NX aircheck. Do you have any details of what time of day?
Was it an automated shift? Who were the announcers around then?
Thanks again.
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Hi, thanks. Iâve been in and out of radio for a long time and have accumulated gigs of air-checks, jingles, sweepers etc.
Until Newcastle got itâs first commercial FM radio station NEW FM which started broadcasting on April 14, 1989, 2NX was pretty much unchallenged. Once NEW FM arrived 2NX lost listeners at the speed of light. And they never really clawed back the market share from NEW FM. 2NX switched to a Classic Hits format but it didnât help them, finally in March 1991 they ditched the now iconic 2NX identity and re-branded to X13 with an All New, All Hit format.
They wanted the change over to be fast so they applied and got approved the radio call sign being changed from 2NX to 2XX, they did a test broadcast for two days, with only music playing no commercials or talking.
It wasnât long after that they commenced broadcasting on 106.9 and re-named the station to X107 FM. 2NX had already had an FM licence approved previously. Theychanged the radio call sign to 2XXX FM and simulcast same programming on both AM and FM for awhile before turning the AM signal off.
Mid to late 93, X107 FM was sold and either later that year or early 94 it was re-branded to NXFM but they only changed the on-air name, the radio call sign stayed 2XXX FM. They dropped the All New, All Hit format and started a âAlways Great Rock & Rollâ format which it kept until Austereo purchased the station in the late 90s. And that was the start of the downfall of NXFM, they fired all the local DJs and imported Sydney dead beats.
NXFM finally started to beat NEW FM in ratings, but only because NEW FM was also sold and the new owners killed it and that was the start of the demise of NEW FM.
Yeah X13 did 13 in a row, then later X107 did 10 in a row. While NEW FM rotated 30, 40 and 60 minute music marathons every hour. And Saturday nights they played 105 songs commercial free.
Both stations are a mess still today. Sorry for the long reply to simple questions, I can talk for days about this topic itâs one close to my heart lol
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Unfortunately the hard drive I have most of my âradio stuffâ on died and is (hopefully) being recovered at a repair shop. So Iâm not 100% sure but, going by the music, there being no presenter and they played the station ID between every song (back then they only really did that every 2nd or 3rd song)(⌠Iâm guessing it was very close to the change over to X13 in 91. As far as I remember no one from 2NX survived the name change. But that imaging Iâm sure is from 85/86.
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Thank you,
Great information, X107 and New fm were my favourite dx catches back in that time.
Newcastle and Canberra radio was great back in the early to mid 90âs their glory days are now well in the past.
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That sweeper at the start was one of the best 2NX (or any station for that matter) ever had, I donât really remember that voice though, the early 80âs version of it was better.
The longer you listen, the better the music gets, 2NX.
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I never knew that one, interesting as there was at the time a community radio station in Canberra with the same callsign.
I also recall they and KOFM relocated to Charlestown during the X107 era too.
Yes, I recall the change from X107 to NXFM as being early-ish in 1994, which was the start of the âAlways Great Rock n Rollâ format.
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I defer to those whoâd actually know for certain, however given X13 didnât come around until 1991 and the station converted to FM the following year Iâd guess the 2XX callsign never came to be - of course, the stationâs current callsign is 2XXX and has been since the FM conversion.
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I am fairly sure that that great voiceover âThe longer you listen, the better it gets 2-N-Xâ was Zoe Bertram from the TV series âThe Restless Yearsâ.
She also did some voiceovers for 2UE in the 80s.
Stunning and sexy voice. Quite mesmerising.
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I donât know anything about the community station called 2XX, Iâm almost 100% positive itâs call sign couldnât have been 2XX at least at the time 2NX acquired it for X13. And equally positive X13s call sign was 2XX.
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After being sold to âRadio Newcastleâ in late 1993 they returned to the (2)NX branding as NXFM relocated to Charlestown where KOFM (2KKO) had moved to on October 1992.
The switch from the âAll New, All Hitâ fast paced format to the âAlways Great Rock & Rollâ format was smooth, was most noticeable when they started airing a syndicated broadcast overnight.
The last broadcast of X107 FM happened on a Friday (not sure of exact date), and the following two days Saturday and Sunday they just played music, some commercials maybe a little bit of talk. The only sweeper they played was âThis is 106.9 FMâ and â106.9 FMâ they dropped the âX107â and on the Monday bam, here is 106.9 NXFM - Always Great Rock N Roll.
They did have a clever sweeper it wen t something like (An original jingle from 2NX would start, then the song âWe Built This Cityâ came on and the VO was like) Through the 80s 2NX built this city on Rock N Roll - Now in the 90s we are NXFM 106.9 Always Great Rock N Roll. Trying to wipe the whole âX107 experimentâ out of peoples mind. lol
2KO become one of the first âTop 40â radio stations in Australia.
In 1978/79 all AM stations had to move to a different frequency to free up space, 2NX 1360 changed to 2NX 1341 and 2K0 1410 changed to 2KO 1413.
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Do you remember what the approximate ratings figure were for X107, and NX Fm 106.9 ( All Ways Great Rock N Roll) compared to New Fm back in that time?
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Regarding 2NX changing the callsign to 2XX, yes it did. Iâve mentioned it around here a few times, & even had a couple of arguments about it, in that it couldnât be possible, as the Canberra community station had that callsign.
I wish I could find some official documentation of the time, but I no longer have it & canât find any to prove it, but at the time the Canberra station had callsign 1XX, (now 1XXR FM).
I canât remember if Kevin Blyton owned any radio stations in Canberra at that time, but itâs probably where he got the idea of 2XX (with on air call X13) from for his Newcastle station?
As @AndiCee mentioned, they changed the callsign officially from 2NX to 2XX late Friday afternoon & ran an offical test broadcast for 2 days over the weekend with nothing but music, starting as X13 at 6am Monday morning.
Thatâs the weekend Iâve said many times that the great 2NX died, even though itâs been named NX since itâs never been the same or had glory days like it was as 2NX.
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KO had been at Charlestown for years, but yes X107 moved in with them at Charlestown not long after Keven Blyton sold the station, & as John McGahen was KO GM, & became X107 GM, he renamed the station back to itâs historic NXFM (as he was GM at 2NX many years before), & changed the format to âAlways Great Rock & Rollâ.
Even though Iâd visited radio stations prior (2GO, Coast Rock, Triple M Sydney to name a few), I did 2 weeks work experience at KO/NXFM after the name change back to NXFM (October school holidays in 94), I took holidays from my electrical apprenticeship to do it, & thats where my career in radio started, (was probably the best 2 weeks of my life), I was given a NXFM t-Shirt & stickers as I was there when they arrived at the studios from the printers, & I went out in the Promotions car with Don Dawkins a few times handing out the stickers, etc.
Later (6 months I guess) Radio Newcastle had moved everything they wanted out of the old 770 Hunter St Newcastle West 2NX Studios, & so auctioned off everything left over on site, dad & myself went to the auction & dad bought some office furniture for his business, I wish I couldâve got some more stuff including maybe one of the X13 & X107 signs that was on the front of the building, but alas was outbid.
Iâve posted this story before, & it lives on somewhere, Iâll see if I can find it & post the link.
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