Great interview with Bridget Griffen-Foley on the history of Radio 2GB which commenced broadcasting 95 years ago today.
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Some 2UW Cash Card promotions from February 1990:
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An aircheck of 2CH from May 1988 recorded in AM Stereo has just been uploaded to @anon36025973.
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Thanks for sharing, @TV-Expert. This is taken from one of our nicest sounding AM stereo recordings. It’s just a shame that the majority of the aircheck is taken up by ‘The 9 O’Clock Special’, which was playing some pretty awful country music.
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On This Day: 31 August 1970: Graham Kennedy, who’d resigned from hosting In Melbourne Tonight at the end of 1969, begins his next job hosting a daytime shift on 3XY, from a studio installed in his home in Frankston
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LOFUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=v5ADAAAAIBAJ&pg=7211%2C16497
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Happy Birthday to 6KG Kalgoorlie, now Triple M, as it turns 90 today.
Started in 1931 and was previouly 6KG and RadioWest.
Here’s a logo from the early 90’s.
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Back then, 6KG was under the same ownership as 6PM/PMFM, in which they were owned by Kerry Packer. In August 1993, Packer sold both PMFM & 6KG to Jack Bendat, who owned KYFM/94.5FM. Bendat then sold 6KG to Rural Press soon after, becoming part of the RadioWest network.
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comedian Kevin Bloody Wilson was a DJ at 6KG at one stage.
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Lightweight radio 6KG.
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I find it sad when a 90yo station hits that milestone with the ignominy of being branded Triple M.
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It will be the same story when the station formerly known as 2GO turns 50 in November.
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Who remembers Radio 2 from 2001?
I vaguely remember it being pretty good at the time.
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Radio 2 started out as a local station for Western Sydney, to fill the void that was beginning to be left behind by both 2WS/WSFM & 96.1, which was in the process of moving out of the west from Seven Hills to Macquarie Park. It also coincided with the then recent launch of C91.3, a new local commercial station for Campbelltown & the Macarthur region.
In a twist of irony, a few years later, it too moved its base out of Western Sydney, becoming a national station before it went bust.
Here is their website from March 2002:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020329000949/http://www.radio-two.com.au/
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And there was the ill fated 2GW on the old Radio 2 frequency that was launched in 2011 and barely lasted 12 months
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Remember Traffic 1611? That was another very brief occupier of the 1611 frequency in Western Sydney. I’m not even sure if they progressed beyond a test transmission come to think of it.
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I vaguely remember Traffic 1611. From my recollection, they played “Peg” by Steely Dan quite a number of times during their test transmission.
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If @TV-Expert only has a vague recollection, then it must have been around for about as long as Fatty Vautin’s cricket career (that catch, though).
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With the upcoming 4BC/4BH frequency at 8:08am on 8th October, here’s an audio of when 693kHz flipped over from Magic to 3AW back on 1st May 2006.
Credit: @Moe
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