With a directional pattern that throws big long lobes north and south along the coast plus east and west you would get deep nulls NE and SE. Much that same as with 4TAB (NW and SW) that needs an FM relay to fill in the null in the direction of Beaudesert.
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A 1974 episode of 3UZâs Sunday morning show Newsbeat, featuring reporter Stephen Fleay speaking to eyewitnesses and emergency services workers covering accidents and incidents that occurred across Melbourne the night before. Itâs very raw and unpolished, given the relative immediacy. Some of the commentary is very candid including some people involved in a car collision telling the reporter âwhy donât you pack of vultures buzz off!!!?â
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I look forward to horse racing being banned like bearbaiting was and we may then get 3UZ back.
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Today marks 100 years of radio in Adelaide.
ABC Radio Adelaide marked the occasion by doing a special OB from the he Grosvenor Hotel (where the first radio broadcast came from), as part of the ABC Gives appeal.
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5CL became 5RN which is now Adelaideâs ABC Radio National station.
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Did some research of Richmond Football Club on the radio from 1925-1929
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Random question. Does anyone know a bit of history on 3CV. Did they ever get a s39 supplementary FM licence? Or have they always been a stand-alone station?
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Iâm pretty sure they never got a supplementary licence. All I know is that they âconvertedâ to FM in the late 1990s to become 91.9 Star FM Bendigo. I say âconvertedâ because the AM station was moved onto a new FM licence and the AM frequency was sold to another broadcaster with a new callsign. It wasnât an official AM-FM conversion.
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Yes, they wouldnât have been eligible for one, too much overlap with Bendigo. Same reason why Radio 97 Tweed never got one with its proximity to the Gold Coast.
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WaitâŚIIRC, DMG owned 91.9 FM (I guess they intended for it to be a Nova station), but then they offloaded it to SCB, who had to offload 1071 AM to Grant to comply with regulations. 91.9 then became Star under SCB, and the 93.5/91.9 partnership began. I do know that SCA actually leases 945 AM to RSN, but prior to that lease, 945 was supposedly going to house a News-Talk format (presumably a 3AW regional simulcast, given that SCB owned 3AW during that time).
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945 was 3BO who converted to FM, so it couldnât be used for news-talk unless another commercial licence was issued for Bendigo.
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I donât recall SCB having any ownership of 1071? When 3CV essentially got replaced by 91.9 (whether through conversion or other means), my recall was that the 1071 frequency was sold to AMI Group which turned 1071 into Easy Listening 1071 (later Easy Mix 1071) and adopted the call-sign 3EL. The station was later sold to Grant Broadcasters.
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Star was DMG - though there was an aborted deal to sell to RG Capital (and swap for one of the Gosford stations, Iâm blanking which - maybe Sea). This was prior to the Macquarie acquisition of DMGRR.
The 945 frequency was readvertised as a HPON and is owned outright by RSN.
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Part of the aborted deal wouldâve seen DMG acquire Sea & sell half of Star 104.5 (which had not yet gone to air) to RG Capital.
Radioinfo article from that time:
https://radioinfo.com.au/news/dmg-and-rg-capital-selling-central-coast-and-bendigo-stations/
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Whilst randomly browsing some posts from the old DTV Forum/Stereo Net I came across some interesting discussion of the DAB (mark 1) trials that were in place from about 2004-2009.
There are some old airchecks of the trials available here (working, though through archive dot org):
https://web.archive.org/web/20050124115748/http://students.aftrs.edu.au/syd/shayne/dab-samples/
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A post was merged into an existing topic: Matches, Hatches, Dispatches
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has been extensively reported and discussed already at: Matches, Hatches, Dispatches - #4351 by JBar
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