Radio History

[Brianc68]

@TV-Expert

@Laoma

Wondering when the last station on the am band that would have targeted a young audience. Maybe in the early 00s?

3TR in the Gippsland region targeted a young audience when it was on AM & continued to do so when it moved to the FM band in 2002, with the AM station becoming 3GV (now Gold 1242). 3GG was similar before Sea FM (later Star FM, now Hit) started that same year.

4AK in the Darling Downs is probably the last remaining commercial AM station to target a young audience.

Yes I think 4AK would be the last commercial AM station to target a younger audience, albeit they are on FM in Stanthorpe I think.

There is a true youth targeting community AM station though - Brisbane Youth Radio 1197AM. Up until the late 2000s I think it still had the dance music youth format as Switch 1197.