Surf reports on the Gold Coast are a necessary part of radio if you wish to be successful in the audience who surfs.
Audio here: https://omny.fm/shows/bridge-and-spida/andy-mac-farewell Bridget stretches the truth, many surf reporters before him. Now I’ve listened to that link, hmmm. Not the best farewell, Bridget dominates the discussion.
While digging out a Classic TV Listing from the Listener In-TV, in the same paper were some ads for Melbourne radio stations 3DB, 3KZ and 3UZ. Thought they might be of interest
Good news for 3DB is that the relaunch as “DB Music” did see their ratings go back into double figures the following year.
Also at this time, Melbourne has its first FM station, 3MBS. It was still a few months until ABC FM began.
While Sydney got 2JJ as the ABC’s third radio station, in Melbourne 3ZZ was ABC’s experimental “access” radio station which IIRC only broadcast a few hours a day and featured a lot of multilingual programs. The station was shut down in 1977. It was possibly deemed redundant as 3EA (now SBS Radio) had come onto the scene, and community radio stations 3CR and 3RMT (now RRR) were also on the air by that stage.
I love the 3KZ advertisement. Think music. Think 3KZ.
I also notice Ric Melbourne on the 3DB advertisement. He moved to Sydney for the launch of The New 2UW in 1981. At around 8.45am each morning Ric would talk to the 2UW cleaning lady; a Greek woman called Toula. She would be cleaning the studio and Ric would chat to her about life, food, children and music. It was unscripted. It was spontaneous. It was fun. It gave 2SM, 2WS and the new FM stations a run for their money for about 18 months.
Here is Ric’s recollection of his time at DB Music, including when he and a team of colleagues were all poached by 3KZ, only to have them all come back to 3DB a little while later – as recorded in 3DB The First 60 Years in 1987.
16 years ago this month (October 15th ,2001)Here in Brisbane we got our 3rd commercial FM station when 97.3 started, though they were doing test broadcasts for about 2 weeks before then. They have not really changed their playlist too much since then😕
If I had a dollar for every time they played dont pay the ferryman id be rich.
But while we are on 97.3… id like to share some Wild FM history
Wild FM without any doubt made a huge mark on Sydney and Brisbane Listeners… I still occasionally see their hugely successful CD’s in peoples collections and cash converters, which ultimately was part of their downfall with the then ABA.
Wild Brisbane was a big pain the butt of B105 which saw huge drop in ratings when Wild was onair.
having said this they also used to “Poke the bear” by use of IDs (ive attached some) and the use of show names like “party harder” taking off Austereos “party hard” which of course caused legal letters to be sent.
And finally some end of broadcast “clubcast” OB’s live both from Viva Nightclub at paddington (directly across the road from where their studios in the last year of broadcasts)
Tasmanian station 7BU officially opened on 19 October 1935. The Findlay family, who at that time owned a music store in Wilson Street Burnie, originally started it. They decided that because they were selling radios in the store, they should start a local radio station.
