Not recently but about 2 years ago I did see a sticker with the “9inety6ix.1” logo stuck at a place I was working. Circa 1999 and was in very good nick.
Can better that one though, there is a bushfire danger sign on Richmond Rd at Windsor Downs that STILL says to tune to One fm 96.1 for bushfire info, featuring the old logo.
Spotted on an old building in Yarrawonga VIC opposite Lake Mulwala, an early 90s vintage Sun FM 96.9 Shepparton sign, pic courtesy Google Earth
Do they do bushfire updates today as The Edge? Who would think to listen?
Ghost signs for Schweppes Cola and Oasis too- clearly a product of the 90s.
Posted this old billboard in the Ace Radio thread. It’s still there in Yarragon.
ROX FM / STAR FM used to have a billboard on the Pacific Hwy just north of Taree, another example of trying to get listeners to tune in early and no doubt a few Taree listeners too.
I know 2RE / Max wouldn’t have been able to try the same trick near Port Macquarie as their signals don’t really become listenable until you get south of Middle Brother.
Back in the 90s, there used to be billboards for Wave FM & i98 at Princes Highway at Engadine in Sydney’s south, advising listeners travelling south towards the Illawarra to tune in.
Of course these days, one of the reasons why the i98 billboard is not there anymore is due to the fact that the area suffers co-channel interference from ABC Newsradio from Gosford, which broadcasts on the same frequency as i98, thanks to NBN not vacating the VHF-3 frequency when analogue TV was still around.
Not only should 2RE convert to FM but also shift TX site. It was a terrible site to establish the s.39, they should’ve pushed for Middle Brother.
The audio carrier should’ve remained, as it should’ve for all Band II conversions, as a matter of emergency and local information.
Huh? What’s the point of that? There is perfectly adequate emergency broadcasts on other AM/FM services in these areas. Also remember that the audio carriers on Band II were actually offset 0.05 from standard FM allocations. ie. (91.75, 100.75, 107.75).
Not practical at all.
Yes- not really a good use of spectrum. They do this somewhat in the US, though, with 87.7 (Channel 6). Dubbed “Franken FMs”, they may be phased out by the FCC in the coming years.
WIN3 Wollongong’s audio carrier did shift from 91.76 to 91.7 MHz in its last few years of operation, probably to capture commuters wishing to hear WIN news I suspect.
Agree, Mt Ganghat was an odd choice, Middle Brother may have resulted in too much overspill into Port Macquarie being on the northern edge of the Max FM licence area.
Careys Mountain would have been a better choice.
Most TV stations use scrolling messages at the bottom of the screen for this anyway so it would have been pretty pointless.
Surely any radio station worth their licence would be live on-air (or at the very least, providing regular updates) during emergencies?
Regional TV stations are worse than their radio equivalents when it comes to local content & emergency broadcasts, I think.
Carey’s Peak, in the Barrington Tops, would have been even better 
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Putting an ABC tx right up on the Barrington Tops wouldn’t have been the worst idea- you could cover most parts of the Hunter Valley and Lower MNC from there. Access isn’t a problem so long as you’re near the Scone-Gloucester road.
They have separate local breakfast programs, so wouldn’t have worked.
And you’d still need a TX for Newcastle and Port Macquarie.
There also used to be (not sure if it’s still there) a 3TR FM sign on the highway near Providence Ponds between Stratford and Bairnsdale (it was at the Billabong roadhouse to be exact), showing the 99.5 frequency (Latrobe Valley - Mt Tassie) on the western side and the 99.9 frequency (Bairnsdale - Mt Taylor) frequency on the east. Again I think it was installed at the time of the FM conversion of 3TR to advise drivers when to change station
EDIT: Here is the old sign I was thinking of - looks like it’s been replaced since
I think it could have worked so long as you kept 684 (Kempsey), 756 (Taree), and 1233 (Newcastle) on air. There is unnecessary duplication between 95.5 and 756 imo.
As for the separate ABCRR service areas, you could have had ABC Upper Hunter (west beam) and ABC Mid North Coast (east beam) similar to Mt Dowe. For ABCFM, JJJ, PNN, and RN, a single tx would do, and would give the Upper Hunter full coverage across all networks which they don’t have presently.
Mount Moombil is perfectly adequate to Port Macquarie anyhow.
I thought Mt Dowe had ABC New England / North West as the sole Local Radio fed up there?
I’ve never heard of this facility for different programs to be transmitted on different beams before?
Now FM and GGG are on the same tower serving different locations.
