Whilst regional, 2OO in Wollongong was another station that started up in the second half of the 1970s.
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And I think 2CS Coffs Harbour was one of the last brand new commercial AM stations to go to airā¦
1986 I think?
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December 1985.
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I wish I had come across these last week for Melbourne Cup day but I dug out an old Listener In-TV from 1958 and it looks like the Melbourne Cup was very competitive, particularly with no live TV coverage, with 3 radio stations putting in full-page ads to promote their race day coverage.
According to the program listing, the Melbourne Cup race itself was being covered by 3AR, 3UZ, 3DB and 3AW.
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didnāt 6MM 1116 Mandurah come after this?
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Yes, it did. It went to air in March 1988.
Part of the reason why it launched on AM instead of FM was due to the lack of space on the FM band, thanks to TV services on VHF 3 & 5 from Bunbury.
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Youāre all forgetting 6EL in Bunbury.
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Thereās probably a few of those EL stations that started from scratch
E.g. 1071 (3EL) in Central Victoria started as a replacement for 3CV that became Star FM 
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The others in Orange, Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour were the result of licences having to be divested when the incumbents also purchased the new FM licences in those markets in the early 00s. They moved the AM callsigns and formats to FM.
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Iāve always wondered what happened to 3CV, enjoyed listening to it when on a family holiday in the 90s
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i think grants brought that and made it gold fn bendigo
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Actually, when 3CV became Star FM, the AM licence became Easy Listening 1071, later Easy Mix 1071, and was owned by AMI. Grant bought the station in 2007, and was then rebranded to Gold Central Victoria in 2014.
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On 1 August 2014, Gold rebranded from EasyMix,[1] which was rebranded from Easy Listening after the owner of 3BO (now Triple M) and 3CV (now Hit 91.9) sold off its 1071 AM service, deciding to keep the section 39 supplementary FM licence.
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2CH switching to SEN News (just the latest in a long list of ways the station is slowly dying, but thatās another story) got me wondering how long the station had been carrying the same news service as 2GB for.
The information I could find suggests that 2CHās independent newsroom ended in April 1994, with Macquarie National News from 2GB being carried from the day John Singleton took control of 2CH from AWA/NSW Council of Churches.
2CH continued to carry Macquarie National News for a couple of years until the newsroom was closed and 2GB/2CH opted to carry bulletins which originated from 2WS. Incidentally it was around this time that KICK AM (2SM) who had previously carried the ARN news service switched to the 2UE-based Sky Network News - I presume this agreement continued in some form until Early 2000 when 2SM News was reborn as Super Network News.
Anyway, back to 2CH/2GB! Macquarie National News was reborn as a service for those two stations in April 1998, while ARN made significant cutbacks to their newsroom as a result. It was also at/around this time that Steve Blanda departed the 2WS Newsroom after 15 years and moved to 2UE News, where of course heād be their breakfast time reader until just before that newsroom closed in 2015.
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98.3 is the Bendigo FM translator for 1071 Maryborough (3EL) - that is probably the āGold FMā you are thinking of.
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1071 maryborough isnt in maryborough. i should know i lived there for 5 years. its only in licence name only.
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The stationās studios might not be in Maryborough, but the station is licensed to Maryborough and the transmitter for 1071 is at Carisbrook which is just near Maryborough.
Google maps reference:
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Love that second photo - how the Landcruiser is parked so that the artwork on it signs perfectly with the truck behind itā¦ pure coincidence or planned?
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I hope that didnāt encourage people to quit listening to rock.
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