It gets a good write up from the Melbourne Age on the audio quality and other bits n pieces too.
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Kind of odd the ABC was considering switching the stations to an âunder thirtiesâ format.
Wasnât JJJ already underway in a number of cities at that time?
Triple J rollout didnât start until 1989.
That late? Wow. It all makes sense then.
But 2JJJ-FM was on the air well before that, after converting from AM.
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Yes, but only in Sydney, moved from AM to FM in July 1980 just before 2DAY and 2MMM went to air.
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The 2JJ AM signal was receivable at night outside of Sydney.
Later it was relayed after midnight on some ABC stations that usually closed down around Australia.
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Itâs not just regional radio/TV. I should clarify that when I was in the Gold Coast, I could pick up Brisbaneâs FM104 and Stereo 10 (and ABC 612), in addition to 4GG Gold Coast and the local ABC station, but I didnât hear French Kissing in the USA on the radio until either the last few days of 1986 or the first few days of 1987, a few weeks after I heard it in Melbourne.
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Still. A couple of weeks here or there on any particular song doesnât mean much. It wasnât uncommon in those days for a particular song to get airplay in one state or city before others. Music programmers had more control. I can assure you it would be nothing to do with âconservatismâ. The song was hardly controversial anywhere.
Interestingly, it charted much higher in Australia (#4) than the US itself where it didnât even crack the Top 50, and in Canada where it peaked about #95
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Happy 24th birthday to KIIS 97.3 FM ,15/10/01 was their 1st official day on air . They were not so bad back then but a let down as I thought they would be really different and they werenât 
Changing over to the KIIS format was a big mistake,
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Remember their logo with the tagline, âThe New FMâ?
I always found that odd. Only there because they couldnât feature a frequency there like the rest of the ARN Mix Network.
I believe they never rebranded to Mix97.3 as River94.9âs callsign was changed to 4MIX to block this.
Ironic, now that both are owned by the same network.
I wonder what would happen if we had KIIS97.3 and Mix94.9 these days?
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And I think also because RG Capital had the QLD rights to the MIX brand.
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Remember their logo with the tagline, âThe New FMâ?
I always found that odd. Only there because they couldnât feature a frequency there like the rest of the ARN Mix Network.
I believe they never rebranded to Mix97.3 as River94.9âs callsign was changed to 4MIX to block this.
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I kinda liked it. They got the Mix word in there somewhere at least.
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Yeah Iâm not sure RG had ârightsâ to the MIX brand actually.
It would definitely have been confusing with Mix FM (4SSS) on the Sunshine Coast overlapping with Brisbane though.
Ar the time it was reported that the 4MIX call sign in Ipswich was the showstopper. And they changed it from 4QFM to 4MIX at the very last minute (when they lost the bid for the new licence in Brisbane) as a type of blocker.
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Just digitised this Vega 91.5 promo from 2006
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Just digitised Triple J tv spot from 1991
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Thank goodness they stopped at Newcastle and didnât roll call all their frequencies. 
Great bit of history this⌠has to be one of the worst radio station TVCs Iâve ever seen.
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The triple j one above is worse.
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At the time that was probably the full network.
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Yes, regional rollout didnât start until 1995.
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