Radio History

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Radio History

I wonder if some in those parts resorted to listening to 7BU and 7AD from across the puddle? South Gippsland in particular is an iffy spot for FM reception- that’s why 3MFM does so well there with its local focus. But who needs radio when you’ve got a fabulous climate?

Only you would call that miserable, wind-blown part of the world a fabulous climate

Yeah down further south the options are limited, although in the western parts 3GG/Hit at least provide something (the latter more recently). Far East Gippsland is another one - I’d hazard a guess that BU/AD would have been some of the few signals you’d receive in those parts

Radio History

Another gem from ‘The Radio Vault’. This is when 4GG on the Gold Coast converted to FM as 4GGG on 20th March 1989, at around the exact same time when rival station 90.9 Sea FM (now hit90.9) launched. It was the first commercial radio station in Australia to convert from AM to FM, in which its first song on FM was none other than “FM (No Static At All)” by Steely Dan, the very same song that launched 96fm in Perth nearly 9 years earlier. Both 4GGG & Sea FM were also the first commercial FM stati…

Thank you again for sharing these gems. Interesting that 4GGG was using Triple M’s “Triple Your Music” branding - were they under shared ownership at the time?