I don’t really recall except that I think it was much the same as the news service on 3DB. They were still doing the pips on the hour and starting the news on the hour, in particular because country stations like 3CV were relaying the news so it had to be on time. I imagine most of the personnel from the 3DB newsroom stayed in the transition to 3TT. (Still from the same newsroom in the basement of the Herald and Weekly Times building) I do remember though that they were still doing news on the hour in the evenings but it was a networked bulletin, presumably from 2UW in Sydney.
interesting connection with the call-sign! Perhaps they just hadn’t thought of that. But the Lite N Easy name was also in common with the revamped 4IP in Brisbane which went through the same format change.
It’s been disgraceful, the first area for cuts even in NEWS talk stations has been newsrooms.
Contrary to the rubbish SCA and others will try to convince you with, people want meaningful bulletins of detail, substance and not generic national filler or another weak ‘Hollywood goss’ story.
News is radio’s immediacy, tune to one hour of 3AW and listen to the immediacy that is then fed back into the bulletins. 5AA too. That is how you do news because this is radio’s strong suit, immediacy to the masses that the internet has not yet surpassed.
Completely agree. Compare the news service that our talk stations put out with what BBC Radio puts out on its pop FM stations (Radio 1 and 2). It’s depressing.
Here is a recording of the signing off of 3DB then the beginning of 3TT at 5.00am Saturday 2 April 1988, although the voice over gives the date as “Easter Saturday April 22”.
The recording also seems to be sped up somewhat.
Soundcloud: Johanngrivet (former 3DB announcer John Vertigan)
I wasn’t a listener to their show at the time, but I do remember Merrick & Rosso presenting the breakfast show on Nova 96.9. They were probably the #1 program at breakfast on Sydney FM radio during the brief era of 2DayFM really struggling in the ratings between the demise of “The Morning Crew” in the Early 2000s and the decision to move K&JO from drive to breakfast?
I didn’t listen to them on Triple J, but I remember their excruciating ‘comic’ hosting of parts of the Sydney Paralympic Games for ABC television. They were terrible. … I’ve always liked Myf.
RG Capital used Voltraint shelf companies for a number of other acquisitions as well.
In the case of 691, it was first registered in 1992, so I would suggest it was used to separate 3GG out of Shepparton Broadcasting Sevices Pty Ltd and become owned by Burl Rose Pty Ltd. This is still the company that owns the 3SEA (hit Gippsland) licence.
The 3GG licence was previously held by Greater Gippsland Radio Pty Ltd (GGR), which was a subsidiary of Shepparton Broadcasting Services Pty Ltd. Rather than sell GGR to Burl Rose Pty Ltd, the licence was instead transferred to Votraint No 691 Pty Ltd, a shelf company acquired by Burl Rose Pty Ltd.
I am guessing that there were various compelling commercial and tax reasons to transfer the licence rather than acquire the company with the licence. Obviously, when RG Capital acquired 3GG they took the approach of buying the company.
Probably because some of the assets or debts of the company weren’t included in the sale. GGR wasn’t deregistered until 1996 so presumably it took a few years to get rid of whatever was left.
For example, it’s not been uncommon for the land and/or buildings used for studios and/or transmitter sites to be retained by previous station owners, or sold to different parties when stations have been sold. Alternatively, the station may have been owed money by advertisers (or someone else) and the new owners didn’t want to take on the responsibility of collecting those debts.
I remember someone- perhaps on the old forum- posting an FM104 promotional CD which had ‘Cross That Bridge’ by Ward Brothers among other obscure tracks. I’m assuming these were never
commercially released which would explain their absence on the Discogs database.
This Nine News story about the 50th anniversary of KFC in Australia features some promotional images including cross promotion with former radio station 3DB.
It looks like the pictures are taken at the “new” Kentucky Fried Chicken on Bell Street, Preston, and KFC (like the Olympic Hotel next door) is still at that site but it’s not the original building.
I recall that in the early 80s 5SE Mt Gambier was broadcasting on 1296 AM.
At some point, they moved to 963 AM, the logic of which I am trying to work out, given Griffith also has a station on 963 which isn’t too far from Mt Gambier, whereas the nearest stations on 1296 are in Brisbane and Wagin (WA).
The only logic I can come up with for 1296 having to move is to do with having to accommodate Radio National on 1305 AM in Renmark, but that’s all I can think of.
I can only add that according to the ABT annual reports it happened in 83/84 and the transmitter power was also increased from 2kw to 5kw, so I am assuming it was at the request of the licensee to address reception difficulties. At the time, the owner was The Advertiser, so if someone has access behind their paywall there probably would have been some articles promoting the change.
Some further info: in 1972 5SE switched from 1370 to 1300 when the transmitter was changed from 500w OD to 2kw DA.
