A licensee shall broadcast or televise from his station Divine Worship or other matter of a religious nature during such periods as the Board determines and, if the Board so directs, shall do so without charge.
Inserted into the previous Broadcasting and Television Act, when television was brought in in 1956 - which shows what they were most worried about at the time… the “Board” being the ABCB, substitute the AUS Broadcasting Tribunal later on.
… from a brief own research into the legislation of the time, I’m not sure it was actually ever repealed before the 1992 BSA came in, but could have been merely an administrative change on the ABT’s part to say “this is on the books, but we’re not making any directions”.
43 years ago this month (August 1980)FM 104 ,later on Triple M ,started on air,the first commercial FM station in Brisbane.
Definitely not the ratings juggernaut today that they were for most of the 1980s
I have a vague memory that before the commercial station 4MMM 104.1, I herd about another station called 4MMM in Brisbane that would have been on air in the late 70’s and might have been a community station or a government owned “Access Radio” station similar to 3ZZ Melbourne (1975-1977). Am I imagining things?
Maybe thinking of 4ZZ FM which went to air in 1975 on 105.7 then became 4ZZZ in 1978 on 102.1. It’s a community station that started out at the University of Qld
Staying in the Sunshine State but going into Croc Country. Was the s 39 at Mareeba on 97.9 (now (s)hit 97.9) ever owned by NQ Radio/Al Kirton? He owns the heritage station 4AM.
I have finished YouTube driving through WA and have now ‘flown’ to North QLD…in Innisfail tonight. I’m heading all the way to Port Augusta on this ‘road trip’, listening to all the locals on the way.
No, 97.9 has never been owned by NQ Radio/Al Kirton. 4AM had been owned by MRR (along with what was 97.9 Hot FM) when Kirton acquired the station due to the Number of Voices rule after MRR & SCB merged as MSCM in 2007.
There’s no better way to wind down in the evenings imo For those who want to do the same, the playlists with the drives are on my YT channel ‘dxnerd86’. For tonight’s session I actually pre-recorded some 4KZ, because I’m not really a fan of their (sl)eazy mix that they air overnight.
Yes, and the funny thing is that while doing my research, I found an article that they complained to the government in 1980 because two commercial stations were given a callsign similar to theirs (i.e. 2MMM Sydney and 4MMM Brisbane). Guess they were happier later on LOL.
I don’t think callsigns really mean that much, they are really just for administration AFAIK… and that it’s trademarks that stations are more interested in - as this is what they use for a brand / on air ID eg. Hit etc.
3rd September 2018 , a sad day for Townsville radio listeners (and myself as an ex Townsville resident from way back, )when 4TO 780 /774 AM ,later on 4TO 102.3 FM ,they changed over to the FM band in the late 90s,were rebranded as Triple M . It was a big mistake not to keep the old heritage call sign shouldn’t have been allowed
These days that’s true but until recent decades callsigns were the only form of branding/identity that stations had. It really wasn’t until the 80s and the development of networking that they started to move branding away from using callsigns.
Among the first departures from callsign branding was 96FM in Perth and FM104 in Brisbane. Not sure if there were any before then?
Not sure if this counts, but in the 1970’s (maybe earlier??) the ABC stations used to sometimes call themselves Radio 1 (the current ABC Melbourne/Sydney/Brisbane etc.), Radio 2 (the current Radio National) and Radio 3 (the regional stations in places outside the state capitals where there was only one ABC station). However, they did mention the callsign sometimes, probably when they had local programs rather than statewide/nationwide programs.
Do partial callsigns count? Many of the commercia FM stations didn’t mention the number from the beginning, e.g. 3EON started off as EON FM and 3FOX started out as The Fox, both in 1980.
Also 2OO Wollongong tended to call themselves Double O the vast majority of the time in mid 1979, not sure if they did so earlier.
Also
2UW rebranded as Magic 11 in early 1984 but eventually went back to 2UW.
3GL changed its callsign to 3CAT when it converted to FM in January 1990 but its on-air name became K-Rock.
I think 5SSA adopted SA FM at some stage in the 80’s but not sure when.
ABC did use those names for its networks but individual stations still had traditional call-signs on-air, even the Radio 2 stations until they were all standardised as xRN in the late 1980s.
Yes, it was originally 5SSA on-air but quickly became just SAFM.
The station’s logo was originally 3FOXFM and early TV commercials used that full name in conjunction with “The Fox”.
In the early 80s, 5KA Adelaide (at 1197 on the dial) became 12’K when it adopted a country music format
shouldn’t have been allowed