Thought it would have in some thread somewhere. I didn’t even know such a thread existed. Thanks very much for the heads up. 
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Unfortunately this thread is very necessary to keep track of all the rock and roll/radio departures!
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And many who are not! A lot who I’ve never even heard of.
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For anyone who was alive in the 1980s or is interested in the AM - FM radio wars, this is a must see!
It’s been newly posted on YouTube and it’s brilliant.
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A couple of regional radio airchecks.
2XL Snowy Mountains from June 1988, just after their FM translators were switched on.
3BA Ballarat from October 1988, back when they broadcasting on AM.
Credit: dxer22000
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Yeah it’s 3BA’s AM licence that is still a comm one not 3BO.
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He was at 3UZ.
Interesting that him being on commercial radio was in parallel to him hosting The 7.30 Report on ABC TV. The ABC usually frowned/frowns on its talent having simultaneous commercial employment elsewhere? (and, apparently, it was 3UZ that axed Jost after a year, it wasn’t his ABC commitments that brought that employment undone)
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In the 70’s, Countdown used to have joint promotions with commercial rock radio stations like 2SM, 3XY, 2NX.
Saw this on one of the Countdown flashback shoes. I think it was 1978.
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Even in the 1980s Countdown was still doing stuff like that. They didn’t seem to be as sensitive to commercial interests as it is now to the point they will go out of their way to avoid mentioning corporate names like those identifying sporting stadiums.
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In the 70s and 80s ABC TV had no problem with sponsors naming rights:
- Winfield Snooker Masters
- Esso Night at the Opera
being two examples.
Also Rock Arena used to simulcast some of its shows with commercial FM radio EON FM in Melbourne (in the absence of a JJJ) and FM104 in Brisbane.
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I suppose the only thing we have akin to that is JJJ on the Listnr app, ABC on iHeart…
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An interesting advertisement I found in The Age (6 July 1990) for a Paul Kelly concert sponsored by Triple J in Melbourne. The logo is what caught my eye: I can’t quite make it out but it appears to be three J’s running with a radio for a head? A precursor to the iconic drum logo… and including a local frequency, too.
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That’s correct.
The only additional info that I can offer is that this was the triple J logo in use ‘at least’ between July & December 1990.
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Yeah you don’t see the local frequency these days. Seems the drum took hold in 1991 if the hot(test) 100 is anything to go by.
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I thought the drum came in around the same time as they went into the cap cities and Newcastle (which was 89/90)
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This is what I have for late 1990:-
Though I think by late 1990 the Canberra frequency in use at the time was 101.5MHz.
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