And for anyone playing along, this is the production studio at NOW FM Moree where the music promos above were made, the thing that’s different in the photo is the compuer running Adobie Audition instead of 2 reel to reel tape recorders. One two track for the master voice over and a 4 track one for the production itself
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It’s amazing we’ve got access to you here Greg. So many questions.
Like, who voiced the promos? Is there anything stopping the station from making such great promos again? And who does the audio production for NowFM these days? Do/can you jump behind and create such gold again?
Are the current NowFM promos/sweepers just as ballsy?
I still do produce here (one of the 4 or 5 jobs i do) I do find today in the multi task world of country radio I no longer have time to just sit & make promos but still love it when I get the chance to and i think you’ll find a similar story in most commercial radio stations today but ill post up some more modern examples of stuff when I get the chance 
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The 1997 promos were voiced by Tim Burdock, the long time cheif vo guy for WIN TV in Wollongong
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I’d love to hear some of your more recent work!
Ok, Here’s some stuff from 2020 around the 30th birthday. The voice is Cam from 2GF Grafton & as you can hear the production is alot more modern in its approach
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Last thing and then I’ll leave eveyone alone. This is a Video Aircheck of yours trully recorded 5 or 6 years ago inside the NOW FM on air studio
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You can post anytime we don’t hear from you often enough.
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Life gets busy & I dont like getting involved in negative scuttlebutt. I’m just a simple country broadcaster living his dream on a station I love to work for
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I second that. Post anytime.
Now has to be one of regional NSW’s best programmed stations - along with 92.9 Tamworth and RealFM Mudgee.
Some great production there too (station IDs) going into the songs. Quite the variety you have there. Very professional sound too.
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Us? Surely not 
You mean us? 
We do tend to be a bit critical of the SRN- myself included. We tend to forget that most folk who work in radio aren’t the Kyle & Jackie O’s of the world or media moguls but rather earnest people who are trying their best, just like anyone else.
Thanks Mr. Hat for these contributions.
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Wish you guys could stream. Id listen to this all the time!
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In the history of radio, when did stations first start simulcasting with TV?
As a kid I remember we got a Dire Straits concert on TVNZ and it had a graphic ‘Simulcast on MMM FM105’ which clearly we couldn’t listen to, but it looked so cool at the time. When did these simulcasts start? And when did they end? I have vague memories of even 4KQ simulcasting, which seems pretty ridiculous.
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way back in the early days of TV, and when TV was only in limited cities/households, radio quiz shows were transitioning into TV quiz shows and some would be simulcast across both mediums.
But simulcasting as we later knew it probably became a thing in the early 1980s as FM became the mainstream. But I imagine there were some experiments into simulcasting in the late 1970s as ABC FM was being rolled out, and community radio stations like 3RRR.
Although in around 1982, Ten in Sydney and Melbourne had a short-lived 5.30pm rock music show, WROK, simulcast with 2SM and 3XY. And the early SBS music show Rock Around The World used to simulcast on 3RRR and 2JJJ.
Some movies would get FM simulcasts, like The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
4KQ “AM Stereo” simulcast a Bee Gees concert with Channel Seven in 1989
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The first FM simulcast I can remember was in 1980 when EON FM Melbourne (now Triple M) simulcast an episode of Nighttmoves with channel 7. This was right after EON FM began, but past my bedtime (I was 12) so I didn’t watch it.
That Dire Straits concert would have been from Sydney at the end of their 1986 Australian tour.
One interesting combination was when Live Aid was simulcast on ABC TV (non-commercial TV) and EON FM (commercial radio) in Melbourne) in 1985.
4MMM simulcast a broadcast of Star Wars on TVO.
Couple of other examples included SevenRock simulcast on 4MMM on Friday nights
JJJ simulcast
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I seem to recall Carols by Candlelight being simulcast on GTV Channel 9 and 3MP in the early 1990’s.
I did watch/listen to that. You had to have the radio far enough from the TV that there wasn’t any interference. That along with the crackle from distant thunderstorms, it probably wasn’t worth it.
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