I remember the orange 2GO stickers. It felt like 90% of cars on the central coast sported a 2GO sticker.
I should point out that the collection isnāt mine, it belongs to a friend. I do have a sticker or two from his surplus collection, though.
Craig Huggins collection?
Interesting You Tube channel as well.
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Can anyone tell me about X102 in Adelaide? The Mix 102.3 wikipedia page is a bit all over the place.
I get the impression that the X102 branding was fairly short-livedā¦ and did they use the āunderdogā tag as a positioner? What was the format?
Reason why I askā¦ 89X in Auckland went from zero to #1 in a very short space of time playing on their underdog statusā¦
this is literally all I know about X102ā¦ the logo:
It was short-lived and was soon replaced by 5AD adopting the 102.3 frequency after X102 had been bought out by 5AD.
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Oh cool thanks ~ hadnāt seen that before.
An LP that I purchased back in 1984.
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Newcastle also had a similarly short lived X107.
This ran from May 1992 when X13 converted from AM to FM until (I think) about May 1994 when the call sign was changed to NXFM.
X13/X107 had the same Top 40 format.
X13 itself lasted even less than thisā¦ I think they changed from Classic Hits 2NX in 1991 sometime.
I canāt find any logos for them sadly.
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Very interestingā¦ I was never really aware of how the āonce greatā 2NX became NXFMā¦
I am pretty sure that Classic Hits 2NX (on AM) was losing out to New FM in the early 90s. 2NX rebranded as the āAll New - All Hit Radio X13ā. It was an attempt to get back to their heyday as Newcastleās No.1 station.
They kept the branding of the āXā when the converted to FM. Eventually changing to NXFM.
It was in the last six months that the station lost its NX branding when the generic āHit1069ā was introduced. I am using the word āgenericā on purpose.
I can still remember the jingles for 1341 2NX and Stereo 1341 2NX.
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Same hereā¦
ā2NXā¦ Stereo 13 Fourrrrrty ONE!ā
And how it used to be ID at nights as ā2NXNMā up until July 1989 when 2NX went Classic Hits, since as you pointed out, NEW FM took about 2/3rds of 2NXās audience in the first 3 months.
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Hereās a few:
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Certainly in the 1980s 2NX was sounding very slickā¦ DXing Iād often switch between it and 2SM (both owned by the Catholic Church at the time).
Even earlier it was just NX-NM
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Ster - E - 0 thir-teeeeen Fourrrrty ONE - boom boom - TWOOOOO NX!
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Great finds!
After googling for them, Iād thought might never see these againā¦ Great memories.
Yep, nickatnights is correct.
After NEW FM started, 2NX lost listeners & went Classic Hits aligned to 2UW (at the time), they didnāt pick up many listeners & an FM conversion was looking like a possibility, so they decided to go back to CHR & take on NEW FM.
2NX had pretty much always been CHR/Top40. At the time (early 90ās) NEW FM was Rock, 2KO was Hits & Memories & with 2NX being Classic Hits, it left no CHR station in Newcastle.
2NX was owned at this time by Kevin Blyton (current managing director of the Capital Radio Network).
2NX to X13 was a total relaunch, they even changed their official callsign, from 2NX (the actual day in my reckoning that 2NX died) to 2XX.
As an ABA (as it was then) licence requirement for a new licence (which it was), required a 48 hour test broadcast period, where they played no ads, had no announcers, playing just a music loop (over the weekend), relaunching on Monday morning as X13.
It stayed as X13 until FM conversion, then it became X107, with the official callsign changing to 2XXX FM (as it still is today).
It stayed as X107 until it was sold to Radio Newcastle Pty. Ltd. & moved to Charlestown with 2KO FM.
John McGahen, was the then GM of KOFM & wanted to bring back the iconic NX name/brand (having also spent time at 2NX), so after they bought it & moved to Charlestown, thatās what he did.
I was doing work experience there a few weeks after it changed to NXFM with the Always Great Rock & Roll positioner, & I was lucky enough to be one of the first people in Newcastle to get the new NXFM t-shirts & stickers.
The X branding liveās on, as Kevin re-did it with X Digital āAll New, All Hitā Perth. http://www.xperth.com.au
Thanks to TelevisionAU, I canāt find my X13/X107 stickers, theyāre packed away somewhere.
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They wouldnāt have been able to be 2XX as there was already a Canberra station with that callsign. But the callsign definitely changed to 2XXX with the move to FM.
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No at that time the Canberra station was 1XX, & it actually still is.
The Canberra station IDās as 2XX, but their official licence callsign is 1XXR FM, their licence never changed to 2XX & the R was added to the end, on FM Conversion.
X13 was definitely 2XX.
The Canberra stations didnāt drop the 1 in the callsign till later in the 90ās or even the early 2000ās, they can use the 1 or 2 prefix in Canberra now.
MIX 106.3 Canberraās licence callsign is still 1CBR FM, whereas Hit104.7ās callsign is 2ROC FM.
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