Radio History

Apparently the TV commercial for Coast FM aired on the Perth commercial TV channels, targeting mainly towards the major Perth radio stations (PMFM, 94.5FM, Triple M) on how boring they sounded at the time.

Here’s the discussion on aus.radio.broadcast from when it was launched back in September 1996:
https://groups.google.com/g/aus.radio.broadcast/c/UpxBayRDzS8/m/0I16tGF8w8UJ

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I do recall the TV commercial on GWN Bunbury. An equally boring radio market.

Nick Morgan may be another Coast FM original. Pops up on Wave Mandurah evenings nowadays.

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3EE… “Melbourne’s station of the future”…?

Source: TV Week

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3EE had a great footy theme though:

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I also think these 3DB jingles and news theme is good:

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Those rm files won’t play for me.

They look like the old Real Audio format.

VLC might play it, not sure if anything else will since Real Audio was from the ancient Windows 98/XP era

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VLC and some other video players will play this format.

Real Media files, now there’s a blast from the past.

I’m hoping someone can carry on from Frankster in the Australian aircheck space. If you’ve got any to share, perhaps consider uploading to archive dot org where they can be added to the ‘Australian airchecks’ vault.

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This radio advert is good:

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Thanks for that. Works now

Here are some 3KZ ones:

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I thought that this was a fun topic. Many of the replies were around my answer that would have been “What’s the Wi-Fi password”. I don’t think I saw any along the lines of “this is a non-smoking workplace” though :smile:

I thought it could be done for radio as well.

Things nobody said on radio in the 70’s.

Greatest hits
Throwbacks
Old School Hits
80’s at 8 and 70’s at 7
Rap

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“Now here’s another 40 minute non stop block of classic rock in FM stereo”

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When most “MW” stations were lucky to play two songs without an ad break. AM/FM was fairly rare as well.

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Commercial FM not until 1980 here so the 1970s slow fade of the north American AM Top 40s – the KIMNs, CKLWs, CHUMs, KHJs etc. didn’t happen to 4IP, 2SM and etc. until the 1980s.

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Documentary on US radio station on SBS Viceland

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From the Transport for NSW historical archives:

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