They were still using the ‘Rockin’ Roo’ in about 1999-2000 when I first visited the K-Rock website. I didn’t know then that the roo was borrowed from FM104.
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4BC flash back time
I have cleaned these pics up and this is the first time they have been posted online.
20 Violins on air.. I bet that was rivetting radio!
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Very impressed the NBN copter lasted so long into aggregation and through the recession.
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I don’t remember this one because my family and myself had moved back to Brisbane (we returned here in 1980 after 10 years away)
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Better audience share than the Nine radio talk format disaster on air now.
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hahah Never a truer word be spoken!
Nobody would never of seen any of those photos as they were inhouse … that is the first time they have been publicly posted
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In Newcastle.
When was this aired? Wondering if it was still in the days when 2NX and 2NM were co=owned.
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Wow. I wonder if this was also the reason for Ten’s continued relationship with Triple M into the 90s/00s with The Panel being simulcast on Triple M.
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Wonder if 2NM aired it. Would not have been in AM stereo obviously…
Given 2NM took a 2NX relay every night from 6pm until about 1989 (when 2NX changed to Classic Hits), it would have. 2NM wasn’t AM stereo though.
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We know. The budget wouldn’t extend that far. Also, it’s Muswellbrook and the Upper Hunter. We don’t get nice things. 
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2NM was a good station back then. I used to listen to it quite a bit until I got an AM stereo receiver for Christmas 1986. Then I didn’t listen to 2NM as much.
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A few random bits n pieces of Newcastle radio history (from the ‘Newcastle Herald’).
2NX TX relocation and power increase (5 May 1979)
2NUR FM frequency change (8 July 1980)
The change from 103.9 to 103.7 occurred only a few days before 2DAY, 2MMM and 2JJJ were due to go to air (on 11 July), as expected to make room for 2DAY on 104.1
2NX topping the ratings (11 August 1984)
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That was an exciting time when many AM stations increased power from 2kW to 5kW. That was also dependent on the new power being through a directional array, hence new transmitter sites often being required. Some like 4IP and 2MW took the opportunity to shift closer to nearby major areas of population - 4IP from Ipswich to the middle of Moreton Bay and 2MW moving closer to the Gold Coast.
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I knew 4IP moved after floods in Ipswich to their new (and still current) home in the bay (and by sheer coincidence closer to Brisbane city), but didn’t know about 2MW. Where were they transmitting from prior to Clothiers Creek?
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I don’t know, I recall reading newspaper articles at the time that were complaining about the changes. Mention of the actual power level measurements in the licenced cities. Also unhappy about ALP-owned 4KQ getting a huge improvement in coverage area being on long wavelength associated with 690kHz from St Helena Island. 4NA was another station that moved away from its licenced city with a new 5kW installation to get closer to the bigger market of Sunshine Coast.
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It wasn’t sheer coincidence 
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