Radio History

[RFBurns]

@TV.Cynic

There were NX-NM jingles at least for some of that period.

Yes I thought I did remember some 2NXNM jingles.

[Radiohead]

@RFBurns

As a kid listening to him on 2KO in the late 70’s, he was my absolute favourite jock, & whilst I took a very keen interest in radio & “playing music on my mums record player” from age around 4 (early 70’s),

Ah yes, I remember he left 2KO for 3KZ Melbourne somewhere around 1982.

[RFBurns]

Yes I don’t remember exactly when, but when he left 2KO I left 2KO & moved to listening to 2NX, & that was sometime in "81 I think, it was when 2NX still used the MORE MUSIC slogan with White writing on a Blue background sticker, but just before they started using the 2NX More Music slogan with White Writing on a Rainbow coloured background sticker?
I still have a 2NX t-shirt with the rainbow colouring from the summer of whatever year it was, the T-shirt says “2NX More Music” on the front & “Summer is” on the back, I got it from their OB at the Newcastle Show in February of that year (whatever it was, '82 or '83 I think)?

[hemi340]

@Radiohead

In the mid 90s, “The Big Rig Gig” aired on a few of the new supplementary FMs, including Power FM Muswellbrook where I heard it. I believe it was hosted out of B104.9 Albury, I think FM93 Wagga Wagga was another station that took this program

I always remembered this show on Classic Rock 102.5. From memory, I remember they aired the show into Queensland and South Australian also. I used to hear truckers on the radio from these areas requesting songs.

[Brianc68]

@Radiohead

I recall 4HI Emerald and 4LG Longreach sharing nights in the 1980s… ID’d as “4HI and 4LG”.

Yes I remember that - but I recall them just ID’ing as 4HI-LG

[Brianc68]

@Radiohead

John Henry used to host a “Nightbeat” music program that some regional AM stations took. I don’t know which station hosted it and exactly who took it.

Yep, it came out of 2UW. My local station 4MB took the program in 1984 or 85.

[hatdj]

@Radiohead

I think 4TO Townsville, 4MK Mackay and 4CA Cairns used to share nights back in 80s too? I vaguely recall a sweeper “Across the north, 4TO, 4MK and 4CA”…

Yep back in the Willesee days. The program was called North Queensland Overnight and from memory came out of 4CA Cairns

[hatdj]

For a long time in the 80s to the 90s 4WK would take Hoedown out of 2TM Tamworth and then it was expanded as CMR (Country Music Radio) under Nick Urby and was broadcast out if 2TM though 4WK, 2AD, 2RE & 2MO

[hatdj]

My personal favourite was the Original Truck Radio out of the old B104.9 out of Albury with Caroline Hutchinson & The late Phoebe Erwin and it was on a few stations accross regional Australia including NOW FM Moree

[Viclistener]

Nitezone was a great show, was on air at 3BOfm Bendigo as well back in the day!

[hatdj]

4CC Gladstone Was networked to 4AM, 4HI & 4ZR for many years as well

[anonymousbroadcaster]

Don’t know if this has been mentioned, but from 1985 to 1988 1224 2WS’s overnights was syndicated with the late great 2GO in gosford, and Wollongong’s 2OO. Maybe it went into 1989 and 1990, but don’t know as by this stage I was a full time 2Day FM listener.

[hatdj]

As I stated Truck Radio (The Big Rig Gig) was aired on NOW FM Moree back when it was locally owned & operated. Was a great program with road and traffic info, contestes, requests & features

[TV.Cynic]

These overnight shows were probably the first for many regional stations, seeing them run 24hrs. Most used to close down in the 70s some as early as 11pm.

[shanosV8]

Another 97th nsw radio callsign birthday today ( recently I’ve posted regarding 2UE and 2HD … 1925 was a busy year for our station founding fathers ). 2UW Sydney commercial broadcasting service started 13 Feb 1925. Founder Otto Sandell’s radio manufacturing company in Kings Cross was United Wireless. However this year is actually 2UWs 100th year as a callsign, as Otto started a non-commercial service as 2UW in 1922. I’ll commemorate that historic occasion on the big day later this year. These days 2UW of course broadcasts as KIIS 1065 (after converting to FM in 1994 as MIX 106.5). Although the 2UW name lives on to a degree through an internet streaming service based i believe in Newcastle.

[anon36025973]

@hatdj

For a long time in the 80s to the 90s 4WK would take Hoedown out of 2TM Tamworth

Yes! I remember Hoedown on 4WK, or Radio 963 as it was called when I used to hear it.

As the jingle used to sing “Through highs and lows, it’s good to know you’re in great company, Radio Nine-Sixty-Three”.

[TelevisionAU]

@anon36025973

Yes! I remember Hoedown on 4WK, or Radio 963 as it was called when I used to hear it.

As the jingle used to sing “Through highs and lows, it’s good to know you’re in great company, Radio Nine-Sixty-Three”.

I just found this old logo from 4WK, I have it dated as 1990 so it may not be of the period you’re referring to, but thought it might be of interest anyway

[FootyKick]

I originally posted this in the Nine Radio Talk thread but it is probably better off here… 3AW turns 90 next week, so the station’s social media will showcase some history of each decade since then.

(This post will update)

1930s: 1425AM on the dial, broadcast studios at the front part of His Majesty’s theatre. Programming includes “Good Morning by Vernon Sellars”, “Shopping with Suzie”, “The Women’s Session”, “Luncheon Music” and programs relayed from the Regent Theatre. Nicky Whitta and Fred Tupper were the first 3AW Breakfast duo, so popular that they attracted 40,000 people to a public picnic in Greensborough in 1936.

1940s: Radio plays and book readings were all the rage in the 40s. Earlier in the decade, 3AW broadcast Marcus Clarke’s 1874 novel, For the Term of His Natural Life, at 8pm every Monday evening. Roy Rene (one of the biggest stars in Australia in the 40s) was heard on the station in radio sketch comedy, and the 12-minute program had a regular audience of 2.5 million listeners (remembering the national population was 8 million at the time)!

[TelevisionAU]

@FootyKick

Nicky Whitta and Fred Tupper

“Nicky” later went on to 3UZ and went on to start a double act with a kid called Graham Kennedy who was his sidekick.

Nicky was later signed by GTV9 in 1956 to be its first children’s host. He died suddenly in September 1956, just a couple of weeks before GTV9’s first test transmission. His sons, Gary and Mike Nicholls, went on to radio careers in their own right in the 1960s and 1970s.

I don’t know much about Fred Tupper but I seem to recall he went on to work at ATV0 in some capacity when it started in 1964.

[anon36025973]

@TelevisionAU

I just found this old logo from 4WK, I have it dated as 1990 so it may not be of the period you’re referring to, but thought it might be of interest anyway

Thanks. I always appreciate seeing old logos. I’ve never seen this one before.