What difference does it make to archive Australian content compared with other content?
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A couple of months back, TRV caught someone who was taking his Aussie content and reuploading it onto another channel. Thatâs when he decided to stop uploading Aussie stuff.
Iâm guessing between that, and the apparently lukewarm response in this survey, there may not be that much Aussie stuff forthcoming. Especially if he doesnât get showered with enough likes and other engagement when he starts posting Aussie stuff again.
Seems a bit petty to me, but theyâre his aircheck recordings and he can do what he likes with them.
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The whole thing seems weird to me. Why make such a fuss and differentiate Australian vs NZ content? Surely more content is the goal regardless of whether itâs Australian or NZ. Seems petty and a bit insular of respondents to the survey to want no Australian content, canât they just scroll past the non-kiwi stuff?
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Yes some odd behaviour at his end. Itâs very disappointing because the pickings are fairly slim for old Australian airchecks; itâs really only Frankster and TRV that upload with any regularity. I have been doing a few every now and then from a collection that was given to me.
By contrast there are a wealth of US and UK airchecks freely available online.
I would be open to uploading more airchecks if people give me the material; unfortunately I wasnât around to hear it the first time. I would need something like this:
Not sure how well these work.
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Not very good. If you heard my show a few weeks ago when I played Roxus - where are you now, that was done using one of those to my playout software from a well looked after cassette and it was very very high end heavy, almost screechy. Never do that again
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And that cassettes donât age well⌠the tape itself gets very fragile and breaks easily from what Iâve heard.
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Which is exactly why they need to be transferred to a more durable formatâŚbefore they are lost forever! Frankster does a brilliant job with his source material, which is mostly on cassette or reel to reel tape.
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Agree, TRV has always been rather second rate, and despite leaving him messages, TRV continues to scope his airchecks. I love Franksters work, I wish him well in his recovery.
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Scoping has its place; it allows you to focus on the announcing techniques. Having said that though I do prefer unscoped material.
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Also helps TRV get around any copyright strikes that YouTube likes to impose on third party content.
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Yes. Even if it wasnât a copyright strike there would likely be music that would block the content in most if not all countries. Even having a small snippet of a song can lead to a block from some artists.
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Archive dot org has a somewhat laxer policy 
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Scoping isnât ideal, but itâs a necessary evil if youâre using YouTube to share airchecks. If youâre self-hosting or using a service such as the Internet Archive, thatâs a different story.
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With 92.9 celebrating its 30th anniversary, hereâs an early 92.9 logo, from August 1993:
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In the 90s when a lot of regional areas in NSW where the incumbent AM radio station were given a supplementry FM station. Like 2PK getting Rokfm, 2CA and 2CC getting fm104. 7 and kix/mix 106.3 in Canberra etc were the stations given funding to buy new equipment or was it embraced by the industry as a whole as a way for the stations to make more money? Was there reluctance from some operators whom didnât want to spend money?
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If they looked over at their colleagues in television at the time, they might have realised being handed a second licence free of any threat from competition was in fact a pretty good deal.
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Other than that they both got a 2nd licence.
And going from 2 to 4 commercial stations at once probably was a challenge to fill all the ad spots, and even more so once aggregation started.
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Today marks 30 years since 2WS (now WSFM) in Sydney converted from AM to FM.
On 1st June 1993 at 8:10am, the station flicked the switch during the popular Hans (Torv) & Kayley (Harris) breakfast show, which had a special broadcast for the occasion. The first song to be played on FM was âSimply The Bestâ by Tina Turner (RIP) & Jimmy Barnes, the 1992 re-recording of her popular 1989 hit that famously promoted Rugby League at around that time.
The station simply kept the same music format, changing the wording from âHits & Memoriesâ to âThe Best Songs Of All Timeâ. Its ratings had a huge jump from 8.9% on its last survey on AM to 13.8% on its first survey on FM, beating out 2MMM in the process. At that time, 2WS was a breath of fresh air on the FM band in Sydney (aside from fortuitous reception of Central Coast & Wollongong), as it offered a very different music format to that of 2Day & 2MMM, who were competing against each other for the younger audience.
Frankster has uploaded on his website a montage of the changeover from AM to FM.
Hereâs a TV ad from around that time.
Credit: Steven Water
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Aaaand YouTube happily showed me that they used the exact same advert for 2CA at the time, only substitute âAM 1053â in the car⌠though I guess there was a liiiitle bit more room in the playlist at 2WS than the âGoodtime Oldiesâ branding that 2CA and Gold 104 (as KZ FM was already, by then) had at the timeâŚ
the latter format probably wouldâve been 2UWâs domain until it went Mix⌠kinda shows how things were a little different on Sydney FM without that extra station (TT FM) in the mix.
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2UW branded themselves as a âClassic Hitsâ station, which was more similar to what 2CC was at around that time. It was only in the last few months before FM conversion that they dropped the âClassic Hitsâ branding as seen on the below airchecks from 1994 by The Radio Vault:
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