I liked the old school 3AW weather sting. Anybody know how long they’d been using that?
First day for Nine radio without the Australian Traffic Network reports. Shouldn’t be too taxing for the Melbourne reporter.
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That’s why Nine didn’t advertise for staff in Melb; Brad Arnold, now of the Dept of Transport providing the reports.
AW have close links with that dept and its various tentacles be it Rob Curtain’s first job post AW at Vic Roads or VLine along with at least a couole of former journos from the AW newsroom at present.
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Pretty sure some of the members here tried to narrow down to a year earlier in this forum. Decades.
The traffic sting I heard on AW is not an exclusive nor new, it’s from a well known jingle package currently used by another station of which we’ve had at least one new member sign up and contribute (welcome to them). Plus, it’s been used by them for years.
Glad to read of new imaging around the news at least for 4BC, that station has been neglected terribly and there’s an awful mish mash of various ownership eras imaging on there dating back to early SCB for the weather sting.
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Love how GB does the quick headlines off the top of the bulletin. AW stopped doing it which is a bit weird why they wouldn’t follow the rest of the network.
I just listened to the 10am news on 3AW and heard the new jingle for traffic and weather. Interesting that when weather finished, it went to another ad break before the next program began. It’s similar to FM stations.
About time they changed it…
Yeh the pre, during and post news ad spots are obviously being sold at a premium cause they’re stand alone. And the listener will get used to knowing the content returns in just 30 seconds.
Very interested to know what the relationship is with the Dept of Transport though. Is AW paying them for the traffic reports?
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Doesn’t 9 have their own traffic reporters for radio now?
Not in Melbourne by the sounds of it. The bloke introduced himself as being ‘from the Department of Transport’.
Now they’re no longer being used on-air, I don’t suppose anyone out there has clean/full copies of 2GB’s now-former but long running Pre-News, Sport, Traffic & Weather themes? 
I agree, but the sound of the new Sport/Traffic/Weather themes do sound “neutral” enough to work on both stations.
While it’s unlikely this will happen anytime soon, personally I hope to hear an updated version of the Nine News theme in the future which better suits the multi-platform demands of today, because the current one which dates back to 2008 is being used in ways (both on radio and TV) it was never originally intended to be.
A standardised logo for all four talk stations is/has been a very long time coming, with 2GB still using their 2002 logo and the other three dating back to 2008 (I think) and the Fairfax Radio era.
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Actually, the current 2GB logo dates back to way before 2002, in which it has been used since at least the late 1990s.
Here’s proof, from February 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/19990208011026/http://www.2gb.com:80/
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Of course I’m referring to the current version of 2GB’s logo with “873AM” in the red box but yes, the basic design (which originally just had “873” underneath) dates back to at least the Late 1990s.
And to be technical, there was a red outline of the Sydney Opera House surrounding both 2GB logo variants in 2001/02:
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Having a look at the SMH archives, the font used for 2GB has been pretty much the same since at least 1992. 30 May 1992:
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Interesting.
Although it seems like there may have been a brief diversion away from that 2GB font/logo in the mid-1990s when Derryn Hinch was at the station:
Source: A 1996 segment from The Footy Show, screencap taken from a YouTube upload by “The_Dark_Knight”.
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6PR used it for a while in the 90’s and 2000’s. 4BC also used it a few years ago for a couple of years.
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When did GB have “Talking Sydney”? I thought that was only 2UE’s positioner?
Yeah, it’s like Macquarie were trying to go for a 2GB logo that would accompany 2CH’s, but it didn’t quite hit the mark. Probably for the best it wasn’t an overly long lasting logo and was ditched in favour of a slightly tweaked “News-Plus” logo.
I’d presume 2GB’s short lived “Talking Sydney” logo was introduced in 1996, because the “News-Plus” one was still being used in 1995 going by shots of Ron Casey in the studio during the SBS documentary “Demons at Drive Time” from that year:
Screencap source: Adrian Zorec’s YouTube upload of the doco. Well worth a watch if you’ve got an hour to spare.
Probably starting to tread more towards the Radio History thread I know, but going by the footage I’ve seen of 2GB from when they were at Sussex Street it seems there were at least two studios at those old facilities - the studio Casey is in would’ve been used by Alan Jones for that period of time between joining 2GB and the move to Pyrmont, while Brian Wilshire and John Laws (when he was at 2GB in the 1980s) used the same studio that Derryn Hinch did. No idea about other broadasters.
1996, not sure if it was used much longer after that. 2UE would’ve had “Radio Active” as their positioner at the time (and most if not all of the 1990s), if I’m not mistaken.
Don’t think 2UE was using “Talking Sydney” until the Early 2000s, after Jones & Hadley defected to 2GB.
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This would’ve been around the time when Southern Cross Broadcasting bought 2UE (along with 4BC) from the Lamb Family when they started using that positioner, which had been used by 3AW & 6PR since at least the 90s.
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I wonder if Caroline Ferguson will continue on with 3aw Traffic. I hope so! She’s been doing traffic for as long as I can remember.
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