The JV of Fairley and RGC also secured the auctioned licence 105.7 in Albury.
Their winning bid was over $2.3M and until the metro auctions, highest price paid at auction. Was also the first auction that DMG were defeated, the second was 102.9 Gold Coast to Hot Tomato.
Albury was the southern hub for DMG and they were desperate to win and convert 2AY to FM.
It was launched as 105.7 The River and was local seven days a week until 6pm.
B105 dayshift announcer Paul Campo Campion, keen to do breakfast radio, moved to launch the stationās breakfast alongside a female co host. He now gets great results on River 949 Ipswich breakfast with Marnie.
In 1998, Joanne & Redzoneās cover versions of Blue Zoneās 1988 song āJackieā went head-to-head with each other. While Redzoneās version is closer to the original song, Joanneās version was the one that hit #1 on the ARIA charts. Iād like to know which version was played by each of the major radio networks at the time.
Loved that. It demonstrates that back in the day so-called āClassic Hitsā stations still played some selected new music. Similar to stations like 4KQ in the early 90s in their āGreatest Memories & Latest Hitsā phase. Today itās really only stations like Breeze and sometimes Smooth that mix a mostly classic hits format with new music.
3TT and 2UW were equivalent stations in Sydney and Melbourne. Iām not sure if they had the same owner at the time. 3TT didnāt carry the love song requests show on Sunday evenings that many stations around Australia carried (at least not in 1989, not sure about the early days of 3TT in 1988), but they did carry the same overnight program, definitely after midnight, but possibly on some evenings other than Sunday, (canāt remember).
This ended when 3TT moved to FM and became TTFM. However, they carried a national Christmas day requests show for a few years afterwards.
By the way does anyone know why the old HWT Building is today ā46ā Flinders Street rather than ā44-74ā as it was when the Herald and the Sun were there?
On the 16th September 1934 Frank Miller turned on the 5MU transmitter for the first time.
The South Australian Murray Bridge station is celebrating over the next few months and would like to hear your stories and see photos from anyone who has been involved from its time as 1125AM to now on the FM frequencies 94.3, 96.3 and 97.1.
Interesting that they seem to forget they were only on 1125am from about 1983 (1458 before that and whatever their 10khz spacing frequency was up to 1978).
