From Radioinfo:
A new book called 90 Years of Radio History in Deniliquin and Echuca will celebrate exactly what is says on the cover with an invitation to all former employees and people associated with 2QN, and in more recent years Edge FM, to the book launch on December 7, 2024.
More: https://radioinfo.com.au/news/90-years-of-radio-in-deniliquin-celebrated-in-new-book/
Hi all,
I managed to record the â774 Melbourneâs 3LOâ jingle that ABC Radio Melbourne have been playing to celebrate 3LOâs 100th birthday.
Iâm not a sound engineer, but I was able to use an online AI-tool to remove the voiceover that ran over the last part which said âwith Ali Mooreâ. Someone else could probably do a better job, but here it isâŚ
Just had a look at the original frequency assignments from the Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975.
576 was originally assigned to Brisbane and 612 was originally assigned for Sydney, but they obviously swapped frequencies by the time the changeover took place in November 1978. Also, 702 was assigned for Grafton while 738 was assigned for Sydney, same deal as above.
There were also a lot of 10 KW stations assigned for various regional locations that were never used. Presumably they were for a future second ABC station in various regional areas.
An aircheck from 3AK in 1994, after the stationâs purchase by Southern Cross Broadcasting and revival of the âBeautiful Musicâ format that it formerly ran from 1973 to New Yearâs Day 1986.
YouTube: Broadcasting Australia (formerly TV Australia) â now with some great radio airchecks!
However, Beautiful Music 1990s-style was a short-lived phase, rating no higher than 1.1%. It dropped out of the ratings after Survey 8/1994 (0.8%). I am not exactly sure what happened to the station over the next few years, although it had a revamp sometime around mid-1997 (after it was bought out by Christian media group Fusion Media) with a light music/talk format IIRC.
Sth Cross chose to sell 3MP and 3AK (wise move as it turned out â at least for a while).
Mal Garvin in his on-air stuff on Fusion 3AK had this weird vibe of being Pastor Richards from GTA: Vice City come to life.
Thanks for this. I wasnât subscribed as Iâm less into archive TV than archive radio. I have a bunch of Franksterâs stuff saved but donât want to upload them just yet
Interesting that 2SER was still on 107.5 as late as '88.
All quaintly suburban by todayâs standards. Iâm sure 2JJJâs digs in Darlinghurst would have been as gritty as its surrounds, with the smell of all the vices of inner eastern Sydney to boot (the late Ron. E would have been busy with his permanent marker).
Is 2NBS a typo (2NSB)?
I know it was moved from.91.5 to.99.3 to make room for C91.3 in early 2000s.
Had a nice old time at Newcastle Library today scouring the âNewcastle Heraldâ archives on microfilm.
Here is a radio program guide from Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 July 1987.
I seem to recall 2KO taking the 2WS midnight to dawn show at that time.
They had moved to 107.3 by December 1989.
2GO had not long before shifted from 1323 to 801. It must have been a bit crowded with 2GO on 1323 and 2NX on 1341?
Does anyone know the history behind why the 88.3 and 89.1 relays were set up for WSFM? From my understanding, they launched after WSFM had already converted to FM and became a Sydney-wide station so why do they get additional transmitters when none of the other Sydney-wide stations do?
Have they ever promoted their 88.3/99.1 frequencies on air? I wonder how many people even listen to these translators. With RDS AF theyâd probably get more usage â but then they donât even have RDS running on the translators.
Itâll never happen, but I think those frequencies would be better used by Rebel and Breeze transmitting from somewhere like the north side of Wisemans Ferry/St Albans, which is within their licence area.
Itâs because WSFM is actually licenced as a Western Sydney station, even though its main FM/DAB+ transmitter is at Artarmon along with most of the other Sydney commercial FM stations. That quirk allowed ARN to own three stations in the Sydney region, with one from each licence area (KIIS - Sydney; WSFM - Western Sydney; CADA - Katoomba).
I remember years ago seeing a billboard for WSFM in Penrith advising listeners to tune to 99.1 for a better signal.
Do you know what was the ABAâs justification for allowing for its main transmission site to be outside of its licence area? And to have the same technical specifications as the other Sydney-wide stations?
Apparently, before the FM conversion occurred, there was an original proposal for a new FM transmitter to be built in Prospect for 2WS, which would involve putting in power lines and building access roads. Also, its original proposed frequency of 97.7 MHz would interfere with the TCN9 signal, and that the Department of Communications wanted 2WS to pay for fixing every TV set in the western suburbs.
In the end, 2CH suggested that the proposed Prospect site should be scrapped, and that both antennas for the two FM conversions be placed at Artarmon.
Thanks for that interesting history. With 97.7 MHz eventually being taken by SBS, why didnât that cause any issues to TCN9?
Were the 88.3/99.1 relays something that WSFM requested specifically? Or were they just offered by the ABA?
It was the proposed Western Sydney site that was the issue, not the frequency so much.
With 97.7 SBS being sited in the Willoughby, Artarmon, Gore Hill triangle, that didnât cause the same issues to TCN9 from there.
It was a bit, most notably around the northern end of the Central Coast, the 1323 signal wasnât very listenable much further north as 1341 started to dominate.
1323 was only 2kw against 5kw for 1341. The other issue for 1323 was the TX location at Ourimbah. The move to 801 came with 5kw of power and a new site, at Chittaway Point, being further north as well.
