I do recall VHF-3 audio wasn’t ALWAYS on 91.75… NBN-3 Newcastle and WIN-3 North Wollongong were, but when I was in Townsville in 2001, ABNQ-3 had their audio come through on 92.8 (or perhaps 92.75 since the radio I had then only went up/down in 0.1 increments).
When NBN-3 started broadcasting in stereo in the early 90s, the 2nd audio channel was also heard on 92.0.
Yes Townsville had an offset. Similar for Launceston.
I wonder why though… it might have caused issues with older TV sets that had the rotary dials, not so much for the push button ones or that had electronic tuning.
It was to avoid SpE interference in summer I assume. Rotary dials weren’t impacted because they all had a fine tune ring as well that remembered the setting for each channel.
Today’s Radio, 10.10.1960, Melbourne:
Source: Listener In-TV
(TV programs for the same day – Classic TV Listings - #7466 by TelevisionAU)
Great find!
Reads more like a TV Guide!
But yes, given TV was only 4 years old then and not a lot of people would have had TVs, they obviously kept their more traditional style of programs before migrating to music, talk, sport as they mostly are now.
It was estimated that 76% of Melbourne households had TV by 1960, but radio was still taking a long time to adapt. And of course, TV was mostly largely limited to afternoons/evenings (with GTV9 making an early venture into breakfast TV).
Top 40 radio had sort of started in Sydney by this stage (I think it was at 2UE?) but I think it was still some years (probably the late 1960s?) before full-time music format stations that we know today really became the mainstream.
March 1958 was when Top 40 Radio started in Australia, & it was at 2UE, but it was actually Pat Barton at 2KO Newcastle who bought it to Australia, after traveling to the USA & hearing it there, 2UE & 2KO were both owned by the Lamb family & once a week Pat would travel down to Sydney & program the weeks Top 40 hits to be played on 2UE.
And still giving more prominence to meters over kilocycles for the dial position.
3UZ broadcasting from Chadstone Shopping Centre where they had a studio, the centre had only opened the week prior. I’m guessing these shots may be the opening day.
https://twitter.com/rhettrospective/status/574341885151436800?t=xzF5xnBGMTYj-9wMDetLVA&s=19
Charles Skase - father of Christopher as part of the Happy Gang on 3DB.
Also noticed the lack of news on the hour every hour across the stations.
I could imagine it would’ve gotten quite hot in that glass box studio.
in the mid-80s there was a boom box model that had TV frequencies from channels 0-11 as a separate band to FM so you can listen to the audio of all these channels.
Dick Smith and/or Tandy used to sell a radio cassette with a TV band, but it was only band III.
I eventually got a portable scanner that covered the frequencies as well as the UHF TV bands.
Melbourne Radio, 11-17 October 1975:
The radio guide is missing 3ZZ (ABC), 3EA (SBS) and 3MBS FM.
Source: Listener In-TV
(Today’s TV: 17.10.1975 – Classic TV Listings - #7480 by TelevisionAU)
Plus an ad for 3KZ’s Adam Joseph:
Also missing 3AK, which at the time played “beautiful music” 24 hours a day.
Does anyone know where the Kindergarten program came from, the one that’s on 3AR at 10:45 on a Friday? Was it Kindergarten of the Air, or maybe from the BBC? The theme song was a harpsichord version of Humpty Dumpty. I remember hearing that show once or twice in the late 70’s when I was home from school due to sickness. I was too old by then LOL.
It’s there in the green border 
Thanks. Missed that one LOL.
I don’t know I’m afraid. But i do remember Let’s Have Music on 3AR, which was still going in the 1980s. That was a schools program. I remember the songbooks that we had in class.
And the artwork in those song books will stay with me forever.
