Triple M - Because Your Ears Have Brains.
In 1980 it was suggested that the average Triple M listener had three brains.
Fast forward to 2021 and things have changed so much.
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Apologies if this has been posted previously, but this is an interesting read on 96fm Perth.
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A new bunch of 2SM jingles from 1960 - 1988.
Thanks to the Radio Vault
This jingles after 1985 are in stereo (thanks to the AM stereo experiment)
I am not a fan of the jingles made in the United States but the Aussie made jingles are just brilliant. From The Power to More Music to Rocktober to The Rock of the 80s to Hot Hits to The Endless Summer. So full of energy, it was only on AM but it packed a punch.
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Iām glad that this upload has been so well received as it took some time to assemble.
Thanks to those of you who took the time to click ālikeā and/or leave a comment on our YouTube page. It is appreciated.
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āHot in the City, Rock of the Nineties, oh yeah!ā
YouTube: Marc McCreadie
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Sydney also used that one too
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One ad Triple M should revive given their current 90s music focus.
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Today marks 50 years since 2GO on the Central Coast of NSW went to air.
The station commenced broadcasting on 19th November 1971 on 1310 kHz before moving to 1323 kHz on 23rd November 1978 when the 9 kHz spacing came into effect. The station later moved to 801 kHz in 1986.
In February 1992, the station converted to FM on 107.7 MHz, giving it a level-playing field with Coast Rock FM, who had commenced broadcasting in September 1990.
For many years, the station was owned by Wesgo (who also owned 2WS) before it was taken over by ARN. Soon after, the station was sold to the then-owner of Coast Rock FM, Sunshine Broadcasting, in June 1995. After Sunshine was taken over by Seven, both stations were then sold to RG Capital in July 1996, in which Coast Rock FM was then rebranded to Sea FM in September that year. RG Capital was later taken over by Macquarie Bank in September 2004, merging with DMG Regional Radio to form Macquarie Regional Radioworks, and then later with Southern Cross Broadcasting to form Macquarie Southern Cross Media in 2007. It later became Southern Cross Media in 2009 before merging with Austereo to form Southern Cross Austereo in July 2011.
Since then, 2GO had been losing its focus on its established audience, in which it had lost the #1 position in the 2012 Nielsen ratings, and havenāt really recovered since. On Friday 8th November 2019, 2GO became Triple M Central Coast.
Even today, on 19th November 2021, Triple M Central Coast is at least acknowledging its 50th birthday, as you can see below.
https://www.facebook.com/254542807898/posts/10159696214587899/
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50 years is pretty young by AM radio standards.
Even commercial FM stations have been around for 40 years now.
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wait till you see when 3MP, 2WS, 2CC, 5AA and others launched 
Coffs Harbourās 2CS didnāt open until mid 1980s.
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I knew 2WS and 2CS came later, wasnāt sure about any others.
But I think 2CS would have to be the last new AM commercial licence ever issued? Not counting 3EE that was borne out of 3XY.
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the only other one that comes to mind is 6MM, Mandurah. I donāt have a date but I think it launched late 1980s?
EDIT: Actually, I do have a dateā¦ 18 March 1988.
Other latecomer commercial AMs include 6SE Esperance (1982), 6NW Port Hedland (1977), 6LN Carnarvon (1983), 6KA Karratha (1978), 5CC Port Lincoln (1985), 4HI Emerald (1981), 2OO Wollongong (1979).
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It was actually 6EL Bunbury that was the last new AM commercial licence ever issued, which went to air on 31st March 2000 as Easy Listening 621 (now SEN Spirit).
The reason why it & 6MM in 1988 launched on AM was because of a lack of space on the FM band in SW WA, as analogue TV services from Bunbury occupied 88-92 MHz (VHF 3) & 102-108 MHz (VHF 5). The FM band only opened up in 2013 when analogue TV services were switched off, which saw 6MM converted to FM as The Wave in October 2018, as well as ACMA replanning the Perth FM band in 2021, which would potentially see all the ABCās Perth AM services, as well as 6PR & 6iX, convert to FM.
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Iām surprised they persevered with TV services on 3,4 and/or 5 for so long. Over east a lot of those services were moved to UHF during regional TV aggregation to open up the FM band.
Even so, stations like WIN3 Wollongong & Narooma, ABTQ3 Townsville, and most notably NBN3 Newcastle, remained on their original frequencies right up until analogue switch-off in 2012 (December 2011 in Townsvilleās case).
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There would have been heaps (virtually a clean slate) of UHF capacity for the Bunbury stations to go to which would have freed up FM space for the South West. It is weird why they didnāt.
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Maybe the precedent was set by NBN going to court to stay on VHF 3 which they won The ABA/ABT wanted them to move to UHF, but NBN didnāt want to play ball.
Cost would have been a part of it as well have having the legacy advantage. NBN said it was going to cost them $3 mil to move to UHF.
I suspect SSW-3 etc took note of this and thus the ABA/ABT didnāt try again after that.
Thanks to NBN, we now have a mess on the FM dial in Newcastle due to forced co-channels with 88-92 mhz being unusable.
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Thatās the (original) NBN legacy, though Iām surprised stations like Coast FM and Lake Macquarie FM havenāt applied to move down to that part of the dial. Now 88-92 is getting filled up with all those low powered mining transmitters in the Hunter Valley, which could actually be co-channelled with Illawarra and some Sydney services tbh.
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