Very wide ranging playlist there.
Pure amateur! Mine is 632 hours long 
Here is the going rate for an commercial FM licence in Sydney over the last 42 years:
2DayFM issued 104.1 in 1979. Cost $0
2MMM issued 104.9 in 1979. Cost $0
2WS issued 101.7 in 1991. Cost $8M
2UW issued 106.5 in 1991. Cost $9M
DMG issued 96.9 in 2000. Cost $155M
DMG issued 95.3 in 2004. Cost $106M
Incredibly Lachlan Murdoch eventually buys the entire DMG Nova network for $220M - less than the cost for the two Sydney licences. It was a “buy two and get ten free” deal.
Bargain!
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2KA’s FM licence cost $46,000 from memory.
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An absolute bargain when you consider that the 96.1FM signal can be heard in a decent chunk of the Sydney metro area & beyond.
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Which is why 2Day FM and Triple M took them to court……and lost.
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And WIN Television paid $10 million for the C91.3 licence. The coverage around Sydney is fairly good.
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This just popped up on @anon36025973.
It’s the opening broadcast of Hobart’s first commercial FM station, TTT (now Hit 100.9), from 4th July 1990. 7HO converted to FM as HOFM just 4 months later.
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They used just about every cliche possible in that opening!
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QLD:
Capricornia: Black Silhouette of Farmer with Horse/Cow?
Gold Coast: Surfer on Wave
Far North: Crocodile
North Queensland: Red-eyed frog on branch/stick
North West Queensland: Broad-brimmed Hat and Mining Helmet
Southern Queensland: Sunflower
Sunshine Coast: Surfer on Wave
Tropical North: Sailing Boat
Western Queensland: Windmill
Wide Bay: Back of Turtle
Brisbane: Story Bridge with white silhouetted people
NSW:
Broken Hill: Mining Headframe
Central Coast: ?
Central West: ?
Coffs Coast: ?
Illawarra: Branch of Flame Tree/Frog on Branch
Mid North Coast: Back of Lifesaver
New England North West: Broad-brimmed hat
Newcastle: ?
North Coast: Hang-glider
Riverina: Some leaves from a Tree
South East NSW: ?
Upper Hunter: ?
Western Plains: Two Cockatoos
Sydney: Harbour Bridge with white Opera House silhouette
ACT: Tulips
VIC:
Ballarat: Eureka Flag
Central Victoria: Bearded Dragon on Branch
Gippsland: Branch of Fern Tree
Goulburn-Murray/Shepparton: Paddlesteamer on River with Trees
Mildura-Swan Hill: Three Hot Air Balloons
South West Victoria: Tail of a Whale
Western Victoria: Straws of Wheat
Melbourne: Melbourne Skyline
TAS:
Northern Tasmania: Thorny Devil
Hobart: ?
SA:
North and West: Sturt’s Desert Pea
Riverland: Paddlesteamer
South East SA: Rock Lobster
Eyre Peninsula: Multiple tunas and other fish?
Adelaide: ?
WA:
Goldfields: Mining Helmet at Mining Tools
Esperance: ?
Great Southern & South Coast: Whale jumping out of water
Kimberley: Baobab Tree
Midwest and Wheatbelt: Rock Lobster
North West/Pilbara: Whale Shark
South West: Bottle and Glass of Wine
Perth: City Skyline with white sailing boat silhouette
NT:
Alice Springs: Thorny Devil
Tennant Creek (not a station but a frequency): Mining Headframe
Katherine: Silhouette of Man on Horseback
Nhulunbuy (not a station but a frequency): Barramundi Fish
Darwin: A more realistic four-blade fan
I have found one for the Central West version, but I don’t know what the thing on the sticker is. If you do know what it is, reply.
Another one from @anon36025973: an aircheck of 2CH Sydney from the early hours of 21st March 2002.
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Ahh yes, I seem to remember 2CH using those “Easy 1170” jingles for several years during the 2000s. Think they would’ve been dropped around 2009-ish when 2CH dropped the “Easy” positioner?
And of course as it’s been covered before, “Latest News” by Bernd Roger enjoyed (at least) a 16 year or so run as the 2CH news theme.
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The opening broadcast of Melbourne’s Nova 100 will be available at The Radio Vault from 10pm AEST tonight. And as a special treat, it will be appearing in unscoped (unedited) form.
Enjoy!
TRV
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The aforementioned video:
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Thank you to everybody who watched this clip. It’s had nearly 350 views in just two days, which is well above average. And a special thanks to those who made the extra effort to click the ‘like’ button and/or leave a comment. It does help and it is greatly appreciated.
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3XY line-up, circa late 1960s
Source:
Johnny Young is a busy lad… on-air seven days a week and two shifts on Saturdays
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A 3AK sign-on from 1963.
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Logo with the post 9kHz spacing frequency. 1500 in 1963.
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yeah the logo was circa late 90s.