3XY when it was on King Street used to be 329 1411 (perhaps “329 1422” was already taken??)
I can’t recall 3DB’s old talkback number but I think it was something like 63 8151. The station was in the basement of the old Herald building on Flinders Street.
3LO, based at Broadcast House on Lonsdale Street, similarly had a 6-digit number, possibly 60 0xxx?
It was a different time back then wasnt it… I mean have a look at this guys bell bottoms
I seem to recall 4MB Maryborough was “funtastic” 4MB around the same time in the 70s. They had a very catchy weekend song/jingle incorporating that.
From TRV, an aircheck of SAFM Adelaide from August 1991:
Back then, SAFM dominated the Adelaide radio market, with AM easy listening station 5AD coming in a rather strong 2nd, both of them rating quite way ahead of KAFM & 102FM.
Was 5AD always easy listening in the 80s? I can remember them getting some sort of mention on Countdown back around 1984, can’t recall why.
IIRC it did have a pop music slant around the early-mid 1980s. It sponsored Culture Club’s visit to Adelaide in 1984:
Also, this magazine ad from 1985 indicates a change to easy listening:
Thanks!
I wonder where Smooth FM got one of their slogans from!!! 
Speaking of 5AD, an aircheck of theirs from August 1991 (around the same time as SAFM’s above), thanks to TRV:
It was talking lifestyle then too. 
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Great memories. Never heard 2ue in stereo.
A mate of mine had an AM stereo receiver in the mid 1990’s and whenever I was over at their house, I always wanted to hear 2UE in stereo. Good days.
I don’t suppose anyone out there knows when Sydney’s AM stations discontinued their AM stereo broadcasts (aside from 2WS & 2UW who we can safely presume, likely remained in AM stereo right up until their conversions to FM)? 
AM talk stations (and a certain Sydney station which is otherwise, mostly a music one…) tend to dip their toes into more “specialist” programming on Sunday nights though, as that 2UE aircheck was from! 
for whatever reasons, the broadcast industry was really against AM stereo. Like they hated it with a passion…even though it was backwards compatible with mono radios. Instead they prefer to keep things the way they are & not innovate. So not only just mono on AM but such technology as AMSS (RDS for AM) will never see the light of day…& they wonder why AM is dying… 
And the amount of electrical noise that you get on AM these days isn’t helping.
As you say the broadcasting industry is not known for embracing change. An even better example is the delay of FM broadcasting; this purely served as a protection racket for the incumbent AM commercial broadcasters.
Sunshine Coast area code before 8 digit numbers was 074. Previously part of the 071 Wide Bay area.
When Mix moved from Currie Street Nambour to its now former home in Maroochydore, is that the point of the number change from Nambour exchange prefix as @radioengineer’s with compliments sheet shows to the 545 11 927 number?
Ah I remember the old 4SS studios in Nambour in the 80s, used to drive past often when the highway went right through town
Just when you thought it was over… I’d hoped that the topic was a literal dead ringer.
Well that is technically incorrect - the issue with AM Stereo was 1. Lack of receivers and 2. The cost of them
The Australian commercials did in fact embrace stereo is a pretty big way in the 80’s FYI… the average cost of a Motorola Cqam system being 20k (I still have the invoice from RME who were the dealers) A complete antenna realignment plus a 15 KHz phased stereo pair (not a real lot of 950 MHz links around then) plus processing plus new transmitters (usually) plus studio rebuilds etc, it was a very expensive exercise and you were still faced with bugger all receivers being stocked, when I was a trainee in 1985 i bought a ST-JX220 for the install at the station where I was so I could hear it at home and it cost nearly $300 and thats 1985 money… would the average punter pay that ?? Arrr no
I do take my hat off to guys for your passion with AM Stereo but from someone that was there in the 80’s, built them and did the training courses etc it is sad to see how it’s gone but also still being in the game today I’d have a very hard time justifying both Capex and Opex to maintain a AM Stereo presence.
I agree the operators definitely put in a big effort to promote AM stereo - certainly a lot more than they’re currently doing with DAB that’s for sure!
The problem was the lack of and cost of receivers.
Which is interesting given DAB radios are more readily available and cheaper (particularly in real terms) than AM stereo radios were.
But internet streaming wasn’t an option back then either.
