Thanks TelevisionAU
That 3KZ sticker is iconic. It was clever as it was not just advertising 3KZ but it allowed car owners to show their love for Melbourne.
It’s not the most attractive sticker but it’s popularity made it a part of Melbourne’s history. It was on so many cars that as a visitor to Melbourne I thought it was compulsory!
Surprised that someone hasn’t modernised it to make a buck out of it!
A lot of people stuck them on their letterboxes too. I thought at the time maybe there was a competition for people to do that
Was there a cash giveaway competition associated with the 3KZ sticker?
2WL used to broadcast number plate details of cars that had the iconic wave sticker and give people cash if they called in within thirteen minutes.
Not sure. I never listened to 3KZ. My grandparents did. 
I was walking around my neighbourhood one day and someone had those FM 104 stickers on their wheelie bin
Happened to be driving around the southern Gold Coast on bin day, a wheelie bin was out with an old ‘Brisbane Country’ sticker. The homeowner, thought it was a bit strange, I told him radio aficionado.
The road to the west of the roundabout at Swansea with Caves Beach to the east, within one block, there’s a wheelie bin there as of Jan 19 with old 2KO stickers.
When I’m next near where the photos are, will upload.
Triple R stickers are quite common around Melbourne and Geelong
Often paired with a PBS bumper sticker. Is there really an elite group of hipsters in Melbourne that only listen to 3RRR 102.7 and 3PBS 106.7FM?
I know the 2 community stations also compete in an annual footy match against each other too. Other community stations might be involved too I recall (3CS, 3MBS?).
They’d break a hip.
That’s actually combine as the Megahertz and play against the Rockdogs made up of musos and pub workers.
Appreciate you’re taking the piss, but 3MBS has a wide range of subscribers and depending on the programme a somewhat more youthful listenership to ABC Classic.
Briefly, radio history.
6mins 50secs in… super for FM 105 simulcast:
Great song and great little movie too (Local Hero)
Agree, not viewed the movie in many years. Love the instrumental brilliance of the song.
As a side note gee how I don’t miss Plumbicon tube cameras! Those Philips LDK 5 cameras were great but those Ikegami HL-79 portables were terrible.
TTT officially opened on 4 July 1990 by Premier Michael Field at its studios in Liverpool Street. After the official opening was a live concert which featured Paul Kelly.
It was the first new commercial radio station in Tasmania for 53 years. The managing director of the station was John Bender, he was reported in The Mercury as saying “TTT was the culmination of more than three years of hard work, particularly on research to ensure it reached the right market… Commercial FM heralded a new era for radio which had survived the introduction of television.”
It was Hobart’s first commercial FM station and its target market was 18 to 35 year-olds.
Within 11 weeks of commencing broadcasting, it had 28.4 per cent of the total audience and became Number 1 in October 1990.
From 1980 when The New 2UW made it No.1 with Ric MelBourne at breakfast and “Better Music and Less Commercials” all day.
Great find!
That FOX FM ad looks to be misleading at best (and wrong at worst) when it claims to be #1 but is behind EON (in your previous post) in some of those demos it claims to be #1.
from 1986