For those who haven’t read it, Empire Of The Air is a wonderful book on the development of radio, with a chapter on Armstrong and the development of FM, along with the challenges he faced.
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Thank you HUFF. I love the way this book goes back to engineering, electrical and chemical discoveries from the 1600s as the lead in to the advent of radio. I have never seen such detail. I shall sit back and enjoy the read.
Chapter 10 is brilliant.
Cheers.
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Armstrong got screwed. He had every right to patent FM.
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As part of NEW FM Newcastle’s all 90’s Easter long weekend, they’ve changed the station logo back to the original '89/90’s one & posted all these 90’s stickers on their Facebook page.
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I love how one of the comments is asking NewFM to return to that same format. No chance, especially given SRN recently canned the B-Rock format which would’ve been similar to the original New format.
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yes I saw that & thought the same, lol
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Doing some afternoon reading on the ABA’s investigation into the relationship between AMI Radio and DMG, which has left me wondering: when exactly did AMI and DMG swap the 97.9 and 1467 licences (and their respective formats) in Mildura? At the time of the investigation, 97.9 was relaying 3UZ/Sport 927 from its launch in 1997 - yes, a shiny new FM station broadcasting horse racing… a fascinating example of how the commercial sector stifled any new competition.
Based on this submission to the House of Reps Communications Committee, the switch had happened by 2000. @TV-Expert puts the launch of Easy Listening 1467 (later Easymix and now River) as 2003, after Sport 927 had moved (again), this time to 1359.
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Was goofing around in the summer house the other day and stumbled upon an old DX book… and tucked away inside was this cutting from the Courier Mail.
Not sure exactly what vintage, but could probably hazard a guess.
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Late 90s is my guess since 89.1 Kingaroy is listed but not 100.7 Toowoomba.
And where/what was CFM 91.5? Toowoomba HPON or Gympie community?
That is the schedule and name for 100.7 CFM Toowoomba
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Late 90’s early 2000s going by some of the names.
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Wow Mitch in the Morning on MMM. Hes Still There! haha
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and Jamie Dunn was still on B105 as part of the Morning Crew I’m guessing this is from early 2000.
Before. 97.3 existed too.Star Classic Hits,originally known as QFM,on the 106.9 frequency that NOVA occupies today.They were a good station back then.
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I’d say 2000 as CFM Toowoomba only launched in 2000 so cant be any newer or 97.3 would be there and cant be any older cause CFM would be not included
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Andy B (he posted these to this thread here before and to aus.radio.broadcast on Usenet)
The 1026 and 1179 ends.
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I think you’re right. Early 2000 seems spot-on. Interestingly, there’s no mention of Laurel Edwards on 4KQ breakfast. Kim Mothershaw, Handy Gary and some digsy called Ruthi.
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She might have been on maternity leave back then as her daughter was born around that time
Great find.
Was CFM Tooowoomba originally on 91.5, or is this just an error?
Also confirms that 89.1 Kingaroy was originally known as Power FM. 4SUN is still shining, too.
95.7 Cold Ghost was evidently in the hands of the God Squad at this time. I think it was the Peter Tate led Hott FM before that?
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I DXed it from Mt Tamborine up on the Gold Coast when I was up there in 2000, so I can confirm that too as I heard the station name mentioned.
Hott FM was 94.9 .. before that it was on 96.5 co-channelled with Family FM Brisbane, the most dumb co-channel setup I’ve ever seen
Not that I recall. It (Hit) is on 91.9 in Warwick though, so that might have originally been 91.5 perhaps?