# Radio History **URL:** \ **Category:** General Radio and Digital\ **Created:** [December 28, 2015, 7:42am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236 "2015-12-28T07:42:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 35
**Author:** ![radioengineer](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@radioengineer](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/radioengineer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2017, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/684 "2017-10-31T12:32:01Z")
here is a video of it šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/televisionau/32/125_2.png) [@TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TelevisionAU)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/685 "2017-11-15T23:24:04Z")
Interesting aircheck of some historic value, taken over the last few days of 3XY in September 1991: YouTube: Reigs-TV Although the big takeaway from this clip is the constant mispronunciation of Gloria Estefanā€™s surname šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![crankymedia](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@crankymedia](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/crankymedia)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 12:44am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/686 "2017-11-16T00:44:59Z")
Shades of Alanis ā€œMorrie-set-eeā€ on those CRA radio ads now airing. What a disgrace. ---
**Author:** ![AustralianAerial](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/australianaerial/32/427176_2.png) [@AustralianAerial](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/AustralianAerial)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/688 "2017-11-16T21:40:58Z")
Also from Reigs-TV on YouTube, this 1996 aircheck from 101.1 TTFM: ---
**Author:** ![mubd](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@mubd](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/mubd)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 12:35pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/689 "2017-11-29T12:35:54Z")
> This is a complete recording of an emergency apology announcement tape from the ABC. It contains a message to say thereā€™s a problem and some music to prevent ā€˜dead airā€™. It was created circa 1979. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iSZSOFRNuow/hqdefault.jpg "ABC Transmission Failure Tape") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSZSOFRNuow) ---
**Author:** ![TVHead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tvhead/32/160_2.png) [@TVHead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TVHead)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/690 "2017-11-29T12:51:44Z")
I reckon a format like that would work really well nowā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![hora27fm](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/hora27fm/32/30153_2.png) [@hora27fm](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/hora27fm)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 5:16am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/691 "2017-12-03T05:16:21Z")
On 1 December 1998 Sea FM began broadcasting in Devonport Tasmania on 107.7MHz targeting 18 to 39-year-olds. ![image](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/b/0/b04155e2af2ad841f4da5f067d6149c1a6929726.png) ---
**Author:** ![Radiohead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/radiohead/32/21429_2.png) [@Radiohead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Radiohead)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 7:52am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/692 "2017-12-03T07:52:05Z")
Didnā€™t they start out as U FM before rebranding to SEA FM? ---
**Author:** ![crankymedia](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@crankymedia](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/crankymedia)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/693 "2017-12-03T14:53:52Z")
The Ultimate? ---
**Author:** ![dxnerd](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/dxnerd/32/404112_2.png) [@dxnerd](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/dxnerd)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/694 "2017-12-03T21:39:33Z")
> [@Radiohead](#): > > Didnā€™t they start out as U FM before rebranding to SEA FM? I think so; it was only briefly though. Perhaps they were based out of Ulverstone initially? ---
**Author:** ![hora27fm](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/hora27fm/32/30153_2.png) [@hora27fm](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/hora27fm)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/695 "2017-12-09T06:58:11Z")
> [@Radiohead](#): > > Didnā€™t they start out as U FM before rebranding to SEA FM? I was in Hobart when they launched and only knew them as Sea FM ---
**Author:** ![SydneyCityTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/sydneycitytv/32/66248_2.png) [@SydneyCityTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/SydneyCityTV)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/696 "2017-12-15T04:27:15Z")
> [@Songs lost to radio](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/songs-lost-to-radio/1103/286): > > And in early 1996 when Barry Chapman ran MMM they had a cross between JJJ and 2DAY FM playing some edgier music, they even poached Andy Glitre and his JJJ show ā€œThe Rhythm Methodā€ (which played dance music) across to MMM and also Richard Stubbsā€™ breakfast show from Melbourne was networked to Sydney. It was all short lived, and ratings plummeted, Melbourne at least returned to its more familiar classic/modern rock format shortly after. Not too sure about the rest of this ā€œnot so rocky Triple Mā€ but it was in Early 1995 (rather than Early 1996) that Richard Stubbsā€™ breakfast show from Melbourne was first networked into Sydney: ![TripleMRichardStubbsBreakfastShowSMHad23011995](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/d/1/d1074f73f14417e4e70447744e9e37b622328080.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/televisionau/32/125_2.png) [@TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TelevisionAU)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/697 "2017-12-15T12:28:48Z")
> [@Songs lost to radio](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/songs-lost-to-radio/1103/286): > > They had ā€œTop 8 at 8ā€ which played poppier tracks (most requested) Even though Triple M was hard rock in the 1980s, its Top 8 at 8 was very pop-oriented (and yes, based on listener votes) and songs would come and go from the Top 8 at 8 weeks before even hitting the mainstream charts. The Top 8 at 8 was popular but oddly never inspired Triple M or Fox to really expand into new pop music across the day. 3XY had that market to itself but being on the AM band it was losing listeners even though outside of the Top 8 the FM stations werenā€™t touching pop. Fox then adopted ā€œthe new Fox mixā€ sometime around 1990 which was a bit boppier and more dance oriented and gave it a clear difference to Triple M and new FMs TT and KZ which all were becoming basic variations on similar formats. (KZFM later branched out to become Gold 104 and focus on 50s, 60s and 70s hits) I canā€™t remember what year it was, maybe 1993 or 94? When Fox and Triple M basically swapped formats. Triple M became the dance and top 40 station and Fox became hard and classic rock. Didnā€™t last long and the formats soon swapped back. Was strange though when I visited Perth a couple of years later that Triple M there (the old 96FM) was still the dance and top 40 hit station, whereas Triple Ms over the east coast were back to playing hard and classic rock. ---
**Author:** ![littlegezzybear](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/littlegezzybear/32/219836_2.png) [@littlegezzybear](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/littlegezzybear)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/698 "2017-12-15T13:35:16Z")
> [@SydneyCityTV](#): > > Richard Stubbsā€™ breakfast show from Melbourne was first networked into Sydney: It was tragic. Triple M probably thought that Stubbs exposure to Sydney audiences hosting Tonight Live with Steve Vizard on Friday nights a couple of years earlier would have given him a leg in, but my memory of his time on Tonight Live was this smug yet uneasy and unsure character who was trying to be cutting edge. It didnā€™t work. ---
**Author:** ![Radiohead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/radiohead/32/21429_2.png) [@Radiohead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Radiohead)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/699 "2017-12-15T17:48:36Z")
> [@TelevisionAU](#): > > I canā€™t remember what year it was, maybe 1993 or 94? When Fox and Triple M basically swapped formats. Triple M became the dance and top 40 station and Fox became hard and classic rock. Didnā€™t last long and the formats soon swapped back. In Sydney I think it was 1994 when Triple M went ā€œalternativeā€ and started playing artists like Ace Of Base and they had a networked show at nights across SYD/MEL/BNE/ADL with ā€œThe Wallā€ . I remember Triple Mā€™s ratings fell below Triple Jā€™s, which was quite a fall from grace given they had been No. 1 for so long only a few years earlier. That format didnā€™t last long and I think it was less than a year before Triple M went back to rock. ---
**Author:** ![TV-Expert](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@TV-Expert](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TV-Expert)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 8:56pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/700 "2017-12-15T20:56:22Z")
> [@Radiohead](#): > > In Sydney I think it was 1994 when Triple M went ā€œalternativeā€ and started playing artists like Ace Of Base and they had a networked show at nights across SYD/MEL/BNE/ADL with ā€œThe Wallā€ . 1994 was also the year that Austereo (who owned 2Day) & Village Roadshow (who owned 2MMM) merged their radio operations, which was made possible thanks to the introduction of the ā€˜2-station ruleā€™ that came into place a couple years earlier. In Sydney, this brought an end to the rivalry between 2MMM & 2Day that had been going on since 1980, although it wasnā€™t until 1990 that the two way battle had really ramped up when 2Day changed to a more upbeat CHR/Hot AC format. In early 1992, 2Day knocked 2MMM off the top spot for the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Rob\_Melb\_AU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/58f4c7/32.png) [@Rob\_Melb\_AU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Rob_Melb_AU)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/702 "2017-12-16T03:03:00Z")
> [@TelevisionAU](#): > > I canā€™t remember what year it was, maybe 1993 or 94? When Fox and Triple M basically swapped formats. Triple M became the dance and top 40 station and Fox became hard and classic rock. Didnā€™t last long and the formats soon swapped back. Fox had Great Classic Rock in 1992ā€¦I think the switch back was after Fox (Austereo) bought Gold104 - as you donā€™t need two classic rock stationsā€¦ (before selling Gold104 and buying Triple M). [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qZiPG2hX9xs/hqdefault.jpg "FOX FM Melbourne TV Ad 1992") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZiPG2hX9xs) ---
**Author:** ![TV-Expert](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@TV-Expert](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TV-Expert)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 3:57am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/703 "2018-01-16T03:57:21Z")
Given the current conversation about 2Dayā€™s new AC-oriented music format, I thought itā€™s worth replying to the following comment on this thread about how it was around 20 years ago. > [@Hit Network](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/hit-network/71/1660): > > This reminds me of how 2DayFM sounded from around 1995 - 2001 (when Nova went to air 2DayFM shifted to 24/7 CHR). The 9am - 7pm shift was AC and nights were CHR and a little dance orientated. > > Between those years people who wanted CHR had nowhere else to go during the day so they stayed tuned to 1041. Thatā€™s not entirely true. Many parts of Sydney, particularly the western suburbs, could get One FM 96.1 (later 9inety6ix.1, now The Edge) from Penrith & the Blue Mountains, which offered a more CHR format throughout the day, except for the period of 1998-99, when they had a more Alternative Rock format. Of the main Sydney stations, 2Dayā€™s closest FM competitor was Mix 106.5 (now KIIS), which had a more Soft AC back then, a little similar to how Smooth is sounding today. During that same era, there was a more interesting battle between Fox & TTFM (later Mix 101.1, now KIIS) down in Melbourne, which targeted a similar audience & were battling between #1 & #2 FM back then, with 3MMM cutting in-between in some surveys. ---
**Author:** ![TV-Expert](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@TV-Expert](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TV-Expert)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 11:11am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/704 "2018-01-17T11:11:14Z")
> [@Hit Network](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/hit-network/71/1691): > > In relation to 2day fm going down a more AC line, the station formally known as B105 did this around 2005-2006 after Nova 106.9 launched. > > B105 was behind 97.3 and Nova 106.9 in the ratings so went AC in format. I remember hearing Night fever by the Bee Gees, What a feeling Irene Cara, Echo Beach etc. I think SA Fm may have done the same. Obviously these formats did not stay in place as each station became Hit. During that era, B105 was beaten by 4KQ in the overall ratings for a few surveys in 2005-06, whilst in early 2007, it was beaten by 4BH for two consecutive surveys. As for SAFM, they had an AC format after 5MMM, which had an adult music format, went after a younger audience in late 2003 in anticipation of the arrival of Nova, which came on-air the following year. As a result, Mix 102.3 had a big boost in the ratings from picking up disenfranchised 5MMM listeners & hit the top by the end of 2004, knocking SAFM off the #1 position. In 2005, SAFM went back to targeting a younger audience, whilst 5MMM went back to targeting an older audience. ---
**Author:** ![hatdj](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@hatdj](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/hatdj)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 4:54am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/705 "2018-01-19T04:54:52Z")
Yes they did. The stations at the time weā€™re owned by Mike Willasee & there was a period in the late 80ā€™s where 1026am was silent in Melbourne meaning 4MKā€™s signal was easy to dx at night & I used to listen to it driving back to Gunnedah after my community radio show in Tamworth on a Thursday night. It was a really good program [Previous page](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236.md?page=34) [Next page](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236.md?page=36)