While digging out a Classic TV Listing from the Listener In-TV, in the same paper were some ads for Melbourne radio stations 3DB, 3KZ and 3UZ. Thought they might be of interest
- Advertising featuring the late Chelsea Brown
- Denis Scanlan is now on Geelong community radio station Pulse 94.7
- Assuming the emphasis on music on Saturday afternoons as it now replaces the station’s footy coverage which has finished for the season
- Grant Goldman now of 2SM in Sydney
At around this time of the year, 3XY was Melbourne’s top station on 21.1% audience share.
3XY 21.1
3AK 14.4
3AW 13.9
3UZ 13.8
3KZ 10.9
3LO 10.4
3AR 5.2
3DB 8.7
3ZZ 0.9
Good news for 3DB is that the relaunch as “DB Music” did see their ratings go back into double figures the following year.
Also at this time, Melbourne has its first FM station, 3MBS. It was still a few months until ABC FM began.
While Sydney got 2JJ as the ABC’s third radio station, in Melbourne 3ZZ was ABC’s experimental “access” radio station which IIRC only broadcast a few hours a day and featured a lot of multilingual programs. The station was shut down in 1977. It was possibly deemed redundant as 3EA (now SBS Radio) had come onto the scene, and community radio stations 3CR and 3RMT (now RRR) were also on the air by that stage.