From TV Tonight:
In 1973 he was one of the 5 regulars on Celebrity Squares along with Bert Newton, Don Lane, Chelsea Brown, and Ugly Dave Gray, who gave Elliott the nickname of Malcolm T-shirt Elliott.
His television work included In Wollongong Tonight on WIN-4 in 1981, as a last minute replacement for Eric Walters. He had also worked at Channel 7 Adelaide hosting “Long-Weekend” movie marathons.
This is a pretty good listen. Old school radio. So different from today.
And whilst not an ancestor company of Nine, was it STW in Perth that owned a radio station in the 80’s?
Possibly 6KY?
I think you’re right, I can vaguely recall seeing a pic that showed the front entrance to STW9 that also had 6KY signage on it too.
No strangely about it. Local Coffs station on 105.5 was in the DMG family and not happy with the PMQ stations marketing into Coffs.
“Streetbeat” com serv segment was carted to identical length and played out of a twin cart machine with a split to each transmitter. Where possible they tried to show localism separately to the north and south areas.
First positioner for ROX FM was ’ The Coasts’s Rock Leader’ - they toned it down to Music after about 12 mths
The 102.3 tower was supposed to be located on Jolly Nose Hill (Bonny Hills) and was to open very soon after the launch of 105.1 There were issues galore and the tower ended up on Mt Cairncross instead - this is what caused the delay.
That’s great for your insights on Mid North Coast radio. Thanks!
I used to listen to ROX FM whenever I passed through from Newcastle to the Gold Coast which was quite regularly back in the 90s.
Jolly Nose Hill seemed like an odd site, it doesn’t have the elevation or line of sight back towards Port like Cairncross has. There probably would have been more overspill into Taree from there too.
I listened to the ROX as well when on my annual family holiday to Sawtell. A great station. You wouldn’t happen to have any airchecks @RoloTomassi_1?
I also happened to catch FM 105.5 Coffs testing in July 1997- flicked the dial up from ROX 105.1 and wondered what it was.
A ROX on Hit’s houses, I say.
Thanks @RoloTomassi_1 for finding Mediaspy and sharing your knowledge. Welcome.
ROX was one of the pre consolidation era, 90’s radio stations that are sadly missed now.
What’s the ownership history of 2MC in the 90’s prior to ROX beginning and up to DMG buying it?
Not sure about the 90’s but I think Wesgo (the original owners of 2WS) may have owned it in the 80’s.
The audio carrier being 100.75 and funnily enough now ABC Gippsland is broadcast on 100.7FM after ABLV4 was converted to UHF in 1991.
I was very young at the time and just remember ABC TV being on that frequency and then it became ABC Radio one day. It was only years later I know what actually happened!
I found some old radio recordings I did dating from 28 February 1994:
2DAY + some ads including a Channel 9 lineup:
2RDJ:
2OOO:
Edit: Fixed 2OOO link
It was 1983 and someone on the 2UE payroll was having fun creating their own Top 20 that related to the staff at the station. This was on the back page of the 2UE Social Club’s weekly newsletter.
This morning 4KQ played a vintage advert/ident. It is common for the station to include old advertising as part of themed hours or weekends, but I 'm not sure what this was.
It started with Adam West and Burt Ward (as Batman and Robin) saying you could win a colour TV; this was followed by a station ident for formaer LA radio station KHJ - sounded like a typical ident - ninety-three KHJ. Then followed a short slow jingle for 4KQ .
Any ideas if this would have ever aired in Brisbane and in what context?
The only thing that comes to mind is that the KHJ clip could possibly be a tie-in to the new Tarantino film
Yes - I was wondering that as that gets mentioned a lot on the station.
Just saw the film. The clip you mention is included in the credits
