Radio History

old skool is 90s to 2010.

A Few I Remember from the top of my head :wink:

NOW FM (Stereo Of The 90’s)
NOW FM (Better Music Mix)
NOW FM (Today’s best music)
NOW FM (Nothing But Great Music)
NOW FM (Love Music, Love NOW FM)
FM 92.9 Tamworth (The Heat)
FM 92.9 (Tamworth’s Widest Variety)
FM 92.9 (Tamworth’s Hit Music Station)
Power FM (The Hunters Hit Music Station)
NEW FM (The Original)
NEW FM (Newcastle’s Best Rock)
NEW FM (Nothing But Great Music)
NEW FM (Newcastle’s Best Music)
2MO (1080 Music)
2NM (Hot Hits)
2NM (Heart Of The Hunter)
4AK (Rock In Stereo)
4GR (Super Stereo)
2GGG (Fresh Sound Of The Northwest)
2GGG (The Northwest’s Music Leader)
4CC (The Music Leader)
2NX (The Longer You Listen, The Better It Gets)
2NZ (Stays Ahead)

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and all the old black and green/yellow “NEWFM Rocks (Suburb)”

Fantastic stickers back in the early 90s

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3CV was also known as “Central Victoria’s Music Leader” at that time. They used “Summer Gold” earlier in the 1980s.

I used to like “MusicRadio 56, 4GY” in the 80s

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Ah yes. All those AM stereo stations in the 80s. Pity it never really caught on.

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And 2KWireless - for 2KY

That slogan is so old as no one uses the word wireless now.

And 2XL Cooma was Mountain Music 2XL.

And one of the all time best. 4IP - A Nice Set of Hits.

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I remember from years of Dxing Newcastle FM radio

X107 - The Beat of the 90’s
NX fm 106.9 - All Ways Great Rock N Roll

The 4IP slogan was 'A Great Set of Hits" I had the bumper sticker on my little yellow Ford Laser I had back then

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You are so right Karen_Cee. Even Better.

A Great Set of Hits.

Creative, risque and explains what the station was about.

At least that incorporation of callsign and wording works. Not like those stupid product placement ones we’ve had in recent years like 4B-Hyundai??!

Remember too that brief period where 3AW tried to upmarket itself with the slogan 3-AWARE “the thinking person’s radio station”

“Four-bee-haych hy-un-die” sounded wonderful on air. Not.

Points for whomever coined 2UWii, though.

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Please don’t remind me of that 4B-Hyundai thing! Probably the most offensive thing I’ve ever heard in the history of radio :). You can bet I rang them up and gave them a blast!

Actually not far behind that atrocity was the U2-FM day for Triple M. URghhh!!!

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Introducing the new Hyundai i98.

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Looking back though, and least it was local radio in the days of 4BHyundai and decent talkback even if it was 2UWii.

I’d love to go back to those days in Brisbane and Sydney radio… even when 4BC was local!

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And by a similar token, the Citroen C91.3. :wink:

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A few others:

2SMUSIC (not sure which years)
You:Me 4BC (late 70s)
G’day 4BK (not sure which years)
BK1300 Soft Rock (1983)
BKMusic (1984)
4KQ The Best Country in the World (1980 - 1986)
4MMM/FM104 launch slogan "You won’t believe your ears"
6PersonalityRadio (1984)

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Previous discussion on ‘first songs’ played on stations. Someone mentioned KIX106 was Kick/INXS. I believe the first song on rival FM104.7 Canberra was Guns in the Sky by INXS. A bit obscure!

I can’t believe this one hasn’t been mentioned yet!

Back in the Early 2000s (I think these slogans were used around the time Jones & Hadley defected?), 2UE was using the slogan “Talking Sydney” while 2GB used “The Talk Of Sydney”.

Did one station copy the other with their slogan?

I remember 3AW had the same with “Talking Melbourne”

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