The interference was comprehensive, on both AM and FM, and was pretty much white noise. It was also present at both ends of the house.
maybe CB radio or amateur radio enthusiast nearby. I used to live next door to one years ago and his CB interfered with my TV and radio reception.
Same thing happened to me once too. Lost all my radio and TV stations.
Nothing to worry about though, Turns out it was just the next door neighbor, he started a garage band…
And every night they’d be jamming.
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If it was CB radio it would sound like splatter, i.e. same pitch, general voice sound and rhythm like someone talking except you can’t understand a word.
Found my answer - ABA had approved the temporary breach caused by the sale of 3RMR 97.9 to DMG (prior to the on-selling of 3MA 1467 to AMI) in September 1999. https://www.acma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-11/Register%20of%20Prior%20Approvals%20pdf.pdf
- Each applicant (as listed above) will be in breach of section 54 or 56 of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 (the Act) from the day of execution of the Agreement for the Sale and Purchase of Licence between Radio 3MA Pty Limited (a wholly owned subsidiary of DMG Regional Radio Pty Ltd) and AMI Radio Pty Limited. By entering into the proposed agreement and purchasing the commercial FM broadcasting licence with service licence 3RMR from AMI and selling the commercial AM broadcasting licence to AMI, title and ownership of which will not pass to AMI until completion under the terms of the agreement, the applicants would be in breach of sections 54 of the Act by being in a position to exercise control of more than two commercial radio broadcasting licences in one licence area. The applicants, as a result of this entering into this proposed agreement would also be in breach of section 56 of the Act in that they are directors of a company in a position to exercise control of more than two commercial radio broadcasting licences in one
licence area (3MA, 3MDA and 3RMR in Mildura);
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Didn’t know that the River was once on 97.9… I always thought it was only ever 3MA FM prior to the network re-brand.
River wasn’t ever on FM. At launch, 97.9 was a simulcast of 3UZ/Sport 927 Melbourne. Only after DMG and AMI swapped stations (and the horse racing went to AM) did 3MA FM launch. It later changed to Sun FM circa 2010(?)
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That’s great! How many do you have in your collection?
Way too many. It’s the only item I suspect that I hoard. At least they are easy to store.
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A status report on FM radio in Sydney from 1981. I suspect this made the AM stations a little anxious about the future.
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“Hot in the city. Rock of the 90’s, oh yeah!”
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Oh wow! I’ve never seen the “2UE NewsRadio” logo before. What era was that around? Very ABC of them…
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1987ish IIRC, amidst the aftermath of the CBC network experiment. 3AK had the same logo/branding but i think 2UE kept it longer.
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Did ABC take this from them? Or was ABC NewsRadio always around?
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ABC Newsradio didn’t start until the mid 90s. 2UE and 3AK had discarded the slogan well before then.
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Found this from the SMH Archives (via National Library E-Resources), article from P156, Sun 10 Sept 1989.
I remember reading this at the time, I wonder what the ‘technical reasons’ were as to why 100.1 was not offered up for FM conversion in Sydney?
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Would it have interfered with WIN4? Although WIN might have cleared channel 4 by then.
Possibly, but the wording of ‘complex technical reasons’ made me think it was something else, as the WIN-4 interference sounded more like a simple reason (WIN-4 was still around then though).
I also wondered whether the Channel 9 second harmonic i/f issue was the reason, but then 100.3 was allocated in Melbourne where there is also a Channel 9.
Whatever the issue was it was later resolved to assign 100.1 to 2HHH?