- none - I can guarantee it- People almost never go to the trouble of improving their radio reception by installing an outdoor antenna unlike TV…
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I did… 
I recall in the early days of NEW FM, listeners up in Muswellbrook installed outdoor antennas to get NEW FM.
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People in northern NSW used to pick up FM 104 - using their TV antennas that had been used to pick up Brisbane TV.
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Yep, that’s the problem when multiple AM stations piggy-back onto a single antenna. It doesn’t work properly for any of them.
Also the noise floor on AM in 1990 was very different from now.
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Yes same in Gympie. People there had huge TV antennas to pick up Brisbane TV and some also plugged them in to pick up FM104 in the 80s.
I also remember staying in a Gold Coast hotel in the 80s that had its room radios plugged into an external aerial to better pick up FM104. Their guest guide book even highlighted it.
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Ad in the SMH, 6 September 1990.
Early in 1990 it seems that Tim Bailey joined 2Day FM as a sports presenter alongside newsreader Tim Webster. In 1992 Bailey was the surf and traffic reporter for Agro on 2Day FM breakfast.
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We obviously know how both Tim Bailey & Mike Hammond (of course WSFM’s 2018-current morning presenter after stints over the years at Ten, Seven and perhaps most notably Foxtel) have enjoyed long media careers, but I wonder what Michelle Aleksandrovics has been up to over the last 30 years?! 
Continuing the questions about 2DayFM history, I also wonder how long it took for Austereo to make its mark on 104.1FM (with the new logo, relaunched music format, etc.) after they purchased the station in May 1989?
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In S2/1989 (around the time of Austereo’s purchase), 2Day had an overall rating of 8.2%, which was below that of AM music station 2UW (10.5%) & way behind that of 2MMM (18.6%).
2Day’s ratings was starting to climb when the above ad took place, in which from S2 to S3 of 1990 (the last year in which they were 4 surveys in a year before extending to 8 the following year), the station went up 1.3% to 10%, before going up a further 1.8% to 11.8% in S4. In the first survey of 1991, 2Day went up 3.1% to 14.9%, whilst 2MMM fell 2.5% from 18.3% to 15.8%, in which the battle between the two FM stations became very tight. A little over a year later, 2Day beat 2MMM for the first time in history.
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Austereo took control of 2Day FM on Monday 3 July 1989. The first changes occured on 5 July, with the station slogan changing from In Tune with 2Day to Good Times and Great Rock ‘n’ Roll. The general manager, program director and breakfast announcer were replaced immediately.
Source: SMH
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In 1990 they were the Morning Crew. These days they’d be called something inane like “Hammo, Timbo and Lexi” 
I remember Michelle Aleksandrovics was working in the newsroom at 3AK when I did work experience there in the late 1980s. Nice to see she quickly elevated up the ladder to Sydney breakfast! I think she was originally from Sydney anyway?
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A quick google search shows Michelle Aleksandrovics has done quite a lot since those days. She worked overseas as a teacher in Indonesia in the late 90s, was an Academic Adviser at the University of Wollongong for 3 years in 2001, a breakfast newsreader at i98 in 2003/2004, worked at a school in Marrickville, worked for the University of BC in Canada, was a journalist for NITV News and a variety of roles for SBS, and is now in media and communications for NSW Aboriginal Land Council.
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Bay FM Geelong uses ‘Morning Crew’ but it sounds so old fashioned now. Especially with their branding and audience. Better than K-ROCK’s ‘Fresh Daily’ 
doesn’t brand the talent at all.
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I believe she grew up in the Wollongong area.
There were several line up changes on 2Day FM in the early '90s. Michelle ended up as Drive newsreader on 2Day FM when Rob McCasker and Denis O’Kane (now 3AW) took over as the Morning Crew’s anchor and newsreader in early '92.
Remember being shocked to hear Michelle Aleksandrovics presenting Kick 1269’s breakfast show while riding a Sydney bus when 2SM was briefly a country music station in the mid '90s. She also did voiceover work for ATN 7 and TEN 10 around that time.
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Originally from Mt Ousley it seems, and a poet when she was a child.
Source: The Sun-Herald, 24 Sep 1978
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I always remember that around 1992 2DayFM played an hour of non-stop music at 5pm. I loved it as it guaranteed you could listen to music on the commute home.
It was branded as “Home Free on 2DayFM”
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Radio 10 used The Morning Zoo back in the 1980s - a very popular name in that decade.
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I still miss 4KQ’s 5 for the drive show. 5 songs with a theme often with a great interview with an artist. My memory fades but I think FM104 used to label their afternoon drive music as ‘Home Free’ as well.
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I think Fox fm also used home free. Wish music stations would revert back to music and a good announcer. As for good breakfast show names I reckon K-Rock had the best one “the big mattress”
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I wonder which came first, The Morning Zoo on Radio 10 or the XY Zoo? 
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