I still think the “concept” of Vega was a good idea, just badly executed and an atrocious station name 
It could have been a bit like BBC R2.
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Spotted this in a ‘Newcastle Herald’ from June 1985… never knew that Triple M had a ‘Movies’ logo back then.
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Did anyone in Newcastle know what Triple M was?
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I think the parent company of 2MMM at the time distributed this movie in Australia.
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Hoyts?
Yes, Hoyts Media owned Triple M Sydney (and later EON FM Melbourne) from 1986 to 1994 until it was sold to Austereo.
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3KZ commercial from September 24th 1988
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Rescued this last month from being thrown in the trash as part of the SEN take over of 3UZ/927.
6 minutes of studio footage of John Vertigan and Rob Testa at 3UZ studios in ~1990
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Rescued from being thrown out.
It’s 3UZ studio footage of John Blackman and Ian Cover breakfast program. Dec 7 1988
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What 3UZ production office looked like in 1988. (it still looked very similiar when I was there in 1997-99
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Apparently 3UZ were about to take delivery of a truckload of obsolete cartridges from 3TT at around this time, December 1988. I was doing work experience at 3TT, which was migrating to doing all its content digitally and the word was that they’d done a deal for 3UZ to take all their old cartridges which they had no use for anymore. They might have been on their way to 3UZ when this video was taken 
A few different stations in Coffs Harbour had a go at sponsoring/publishing a Top 40 Chart in the local paper back in the 1980s.. 2CS, 2MC and now this is community station 2CHY getting in on the act… (in August 1986).
I particularly note the use of “FM104” in the heading… can’t recall that being used on air at all, but thought it was interesting given the use of it by a certain legendary station operating on the same frequency 400 kms up the highway in the same era.
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2CC in Canberra is turning 50 this Friday.
Original staff members to celebrate 2CC Canberra’s 50th anniversary
In the early 70s 2CC was one of a number of new commercial AM licences granted by the Whitlam Government, after a long period of no expansion of the commercial radio sector. 2CC came into a quickly growing market of young families, drawn to Canberra by the expansion of the public service.
At that point in the National capital, 2CA was operating as the only commercial station servicing the market, doing “all things for all people”.
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And 90% of those songs in that chart 2WS would not have played back then.
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Yes, just like the 2TM one I posted earlier.
But I do remember 2WS having a Top 40 show on Sunday nights around 1985 or thereabouts, must have been this one (from Sunday 30 June of that year).
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A brief discussion about Bay FM in the ‘Great Songs’ thread prompted me to post this outlook on Geelong radio ahead of the Bay FM launch that evening (this from the ‘Geelong Advertiser’ 8 December 1989).
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Great read, thank you for sharing.
The speculation that 3GL/K-Rock would drop the footy broadcasts was fortunately well off the mark.
Interesting also to discuss 3CS in the Geelong market. The signal has always been good into Geelong, and I remember in the 90s we had a car that only had an AM radio, so 3CS was the only music station we could listen to (other than Magic, but my folks didn’t fit that demographic). Even still I think there are ads for Geelong businesses on 3CS.
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A few years before it was Ken Sparkes with Rock Around The World and Sparkes On Sunday
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Yes there indeed are, when picking up 3CS in the past (in around 2023 and last year) I’ve heard ads for businesses such as Prestige Jayco Geelong, Geelong Gaol, The Gordon and even The Ponds Hotel (Waurn Ponds).
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