Great article about Take 40 Australia. In the 80s, I listened to Take 40 Australia every Saturday, then American Top 40 on Sunday night… both on Fox FM.
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Great read! I loved Take 40 too.
I used to envy Melbourne as the only place where it was in FM stereo at the time.
I wish stations would air the old episides of it like we see these days with the old American Top 40 reruns.
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The short lived ‘More Digital’ used to play old Barry Bissell from the early 2000s. I’d rather hear countdowns from the 80s and 90s; to my knowledge no station has aired these. It’s a matter of who has the rights I guess (and whether the archived shows even exist)!
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On The ABC of… on Tuesday last week, a clip of Greig Pickhaver (aka H.G. Nelson) working as a 3RRR presenter in 1980 was shown. How long did Greig work for the station and did he have other roles there?
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This is gold. Thanks Sportscaster91. Remember around the grounds?
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Ah yes, Sunday afternoons when all Sunday games were on at 3pm and only one was televised and that was a Sunday night replay after the news.
And with no internet, it was the only way to find out how your team was going at the time.
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I’ll be the first one to mention this,on this day June 30th,1 year ago today ,it was bye bye 4KQ,
at midnight,July 1st ,SENQ 693 was born .A very sad day for a lot of Brisbane radio listeners 
I’m sure they’ll be Facebook posts too from long time fans.
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Some random radio history… after the demise of The Early Bird Show and its short-lived revamp as Club Ten from Channel Ten, Darryl Cotton and Marty Monster made the move to radio to hosting a Sunday morning show on TTFM in 1990. I seem to recall that 3KZ used to have a similar kids show called KZ Koala, but I guess since the advent of television you don’t hear about many commercial radio shows aimed at kids? But there must surely have been others??
Source: TV Week
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I presume this is a recording from either Triple J or Radio National from circa 1995?
https://soundcloud.com/petarkco/1995-abc-interview
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Has anyone got any audio from The CBC Network experiment between 3AK and 2UE?
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I heard this particular air-check I think a few years ago when it was first uploaded. Hearing the old 2UW turn off was like a punch in the gut, and hearing it again tonight, exactly the same feeling. Saturday 30th April 1994 was the end of an era. Have to say the first few months of Mix 106.5 sounds rather tame, compared to the ugly child it’s become today. Below is an aircheck from 2UW at it’s heights, around about xmas 1981, Jan 1982. The station went down the pan when Bazz and Pilko left in 1990.
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who remembers 1986-87 when 3UZ adopted a country music format? It got OK ratings (around 5-6 IIRC) but it all ended when the Victorian racing industry bought the station for racing broadcasts. Jane Kennedy and Toni Tenaglia got their Melbourne radio debuts on the countrified 3UZ.
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2SM tried a country format in Sydney a couple of times…
It rebranded to KICK AM for one of them.
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I seem to recall they got Dolly Parton to come here when the country music format launched. Apparently they had to keep reminding her not to call the station “3U Zee”
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Same for 4KQ: was The Best Country in the World and rated number one ahead of FM104 at one point.
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one of the Adelaide stations did country as well IIRC. Can’t remember if it was 5KA or 5AD but one of the old AMs.
EDIT: It was 5KA, “12K Country”. Circa 1982.
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Yes 4KQ did alright with country in the early 80s. Must have been very early 80s they were ahead of FM104 though? Don’t think FM104 was beaten post 1984.
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Great read!
Loved that show!
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