Whereabouts were you when you got these?
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I was part of the Hawkesbury Radio footy call team in a behind-the-scenes technical capacity. Good days.
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Wagga Wagga, was located on a hill slope facing east (I could see the local airport in the distance) so that would have helped in dx events.
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You can hear Power FM Nowra via aircraft scatter out at Holbrook.
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ABC RN promo for Breakfast in November 1994:
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And Beaumonts pies - thought all my Christmases had come at once when I got a lunch order with one of those in it as a kid.
Still reckon that K-Rock branding is far more iconic (and contemporary even) than their current logo.
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K-Rock also used the ‘Rockin Roo’ (a’la FM 104) for a time didn’t they?
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Oh wow. I’ve only now made the connection that the original K-Rock logo was the exact same font as FM104 (yes, I was today years old when I learnt this).
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Loving the Stereo 10 streaming. Is this a permanent thing?
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Yes, it’s been going for several years
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Spotted this along my street, someone had put stuff out for free and what I found in that pile was some old stickers for Geelong Broadcasters and Triple M Melbourne. Featuring the Geelong stations’ original FM logos dating back to 1989 and 1990 respectively.
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Triple Your Music
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If only they had explained DAB this way at the time. That it was simply another band in addition to AM and FM. People still don’t understand that’s what it is.
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This is a good point, and it’s made me wonder about that.
When FM was introduced, new licences were issued. The existing AM stations had to pay if they wanted to convert to FM, it wasn’t automatic.
But DAB+ came, and the government just gave the spectrum to the existing AM and FM stations. Why didn’t they sell new licences and monetise the spectrum?
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I think DAB+ was intended to be a supplement to AM and FM, not an entirely new band, hence why no new entrants were allowed.
It’s just a very odd decision, when I think about it. Uptake of DAB is certainly a lot less than FM was back in the 1990s when the big conversions occurred.
Personally, I love it but the coverage is poor (and the signal drops out in the Eastlink tunnels).
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Yes it was the wrong call IMO. By all means allocate some spectrum to the incumbents, but they should have also added new DAB licences to new players like they did/do in the UK. That would have actually incentivised the existing operators to actually invest in and promote DAB and create more original content. The ACMA indicated initially that new operators would come in after a moratorium period, but then they never followed through. Probably due to pressure from the incumbents, and we all know ACMA actually works for the industry, rather than regulates it for the benefit of the listener (ie. The actual owners of the spectrum).