Station used to sponsor Skyshow (now Skyworks) during that period
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Listening Post, the magazine produced by Sydney community radio station, 2SER, has been digitalised in Trove.
Produced from 1979 to 1997, the magazine was launched just before the station itself in October 1979, designed to capture the mood, but also the progress, of a rapidly changing media industry at the time.
See the full collection below:
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was The Eagle a regional station? I thought it was a (short-lived) re-branding of 6IX in Perth (with the call-sign also changed to 6GL before going back to 6IX).
IIRC, Austereo bought 6IX and re-named it The Eagle, with the ultimate goal of securing an FM conversion, but it didnāt happen and they ended up buying PMFM and 94.5 a few years later. But now Iām reminded that didnāt Austereo own 96FM at one point too (leading to the Triple M name being used there?). Iām a bit confused on their timeline of FM stations in the 90s.
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Yeah thatās what I thought too. Triple M bought 96FM from FM Australia, then Austereo bought Triple M. At some point after that Austereo bought PMFM and 94.5, and Austereo sold 96.1 to Southern Cross.
Some good info on the 96FM 40 Years website
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Thank you. I had somehow recalled that Austereo bought PMFM and 94.5 earlier in the decade but this clears it up that it happened after they bought 96FM and then sold off 96.
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Perhaps it was Eagle FM Goulburn NSW?
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PerthNow reckon it was 6MD Merredin, in the wheatbelt: https://www.perthnow.com.au/business/media/dean-clairsy-clairs-shock-exit-from-mix-945-after-20-years-with-the-station-ng-b881733031z
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Yes, 1080AM The Eagle was a powerhouse back in the late 80s. Austereo owned them for a short time (88-90, I think) and they sold it to RadioWest when they missed out on the AM - FM conversion licenses. Austereo rebranded 6IX to 6GL at the time, and RadioWest reinstated the 6IX brand when they took over (with a Hits & Memories format).
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Question on Perth Radio - the other mainland capitals (Ade, Bri, Mel and Syd) have the majority of their city wide FM stations in the 100-108 range. Perth seems to be the outlier with all their stations in the 88-100MHz range.
Is there a historic reason for this?
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We like to be differentā¦? 
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Somebody suggested that it may be because of limitations caused by Bunbury having its former analogue TV channels 3 and 5 which are both on the FM band.
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The location of the FM stations in major capitals often depended on nearby TV broadcasts on channels 3,4 and 5. These channel were in the FM band so Fm stations could not interfere. So for example nearby to Sydney were channels 3 Newcastle and 4 Illawara - so the FM stations had to be at the upper end in the channel 5 area. Brisbane has Toowoomba on Channel 3 and Gympie and Wawick on 4.
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That was why ABC in Newcastle had to shift from Channel 5 to 5A, and same with DDQ in Toowoomba?
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Yes, all a legacy from the use of Band II TV services around each capital city. 92-94 MHz was the only part of the FM broadcast band unencumbered by Band II TV, which is why this range was used for the first FM tests and stations (e.g 2MBS Sydney).
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Thatās interestingā¦ what frequency was 2MBS on back then? Iāve only ever known them to be on 102.5.
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92.1
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That must be a firstā¦ the same frequency being used by 3 different stations in roughly the same area?
2MBS, then 2MWM Northern Beaches and now 2MFM.
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Yes, 92.1 has had no less than three different stations on it. 2MBS until the late 70s, then 2MWM until about 1999, followed by a brief period of nothing before 2MFM took over in about 2001/02.
Radiohead beat me to it.
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Radio 2ST has put up a youtube video (photo montage) of the stationās history. Thought you might find it interesting if you havenāt seen it already.
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I recall that SUN FM in Shepparton was boasting as āAustraliaās first inland commercial FM stationā when it launched in late 1990. I guess thatās a āfirstā of some note 
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