I suspect the website was hastily constructed, probably this error should have been picked up by now, but often the case that people are busy.
It’s an odd way to represent the phone number too with both spaces & hyphen.
Most companies would just put a space between the 4 & 9 so that it appears as:
(07) 5524 9797
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The sad fact happens to be that there are heaps of other errors in this website too! It’s very embarissing! Just one of many other examples I spotted is was contact emails. Some station’s details are not even remotely right! The list of errors is actually quite long! TBH
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I really don’t understand how a website can be published with spelling errors and basic things like contact emails.
They could just bring some random stranger in off the street to proof read surely? My 85 yo mother would pick up every spelling mistake in about 10 minutes.
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To be fair, that’s ACE Digital who have put these sites live. So I wonder who is actually responsible for editing and ensuring the content is correct?
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Probably no one. 
One only needs to look at news related websites like news.com.au (& I’m sure many others) to realise that there’s no proof reading or checking by a second party (or little evidence of it) to ensure that content makes sense or spelling checks or grammar or punctuation is correct. Gone are the days when such things happened.
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G’day Mr X. Can I request ‘Mr X’ by UltravoX on Station X, please?
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AI?
It gets better on the NewFM Contact page:
Contact Us - NEW FM
Newcastle’s NEW FM
NEW FM is a true heritage radio station and Australia’s second longest-serving broadcaster, just hours younger than Sydney’s 2UE. It has a mostly talk format aimed mainly at the 40yrs+ audience.
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In that case, they shouldn’t be called “NEW FM”, maybe “ANCIENT FM” more like it.
Even if NEW FM had really been around since 1925, no one would have been able to listen to it because we didn’t have FM radios available back then!
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Quality control. Not an option.
Maybe it should be read as “NEW FM has a rock music format. It was formed a an independent station in the 1980s by Mike Webb, but was bought by the incumbent 2HD station in 1994, which is a true heritage AM radio station and Australia’s second longest-serving broadcaster. Its first broadcast was just hours after Sydney’s 2UE. It has a mostly talk format aimed mainly at the 40yrs+ audience.”
Source: https://radioinfo.com.au/news/a-visit-to-2hd-as-the-radio-station-celebrates-100-years/ and various Newcastle Herald articles from NewsBank (through NLA).
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But NEWFM hasn’t had a rock format for several decades now…
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Back in the day they pretty much copied the Wikipedia entry for 2HD…wouldn’t hurt to do it again. 
at least Wikipedia has some standards.
James Yelland probably having his lunch break then.
To be “technical” Radio 97 has a 1kw translator on the Elanora water tank. If we are talking “commercial grade” signal levels you would have to say they only cover the “southern part” of the Gold Coast. They only have rights to this thanks to a very thin strip of the hiway from Burleigh up to where Broadbeach Nerang Rd and the hiway meet. Basically the corner where Pacific Fair is. This comes about thanks to the old council borders. In the old days you could take two wheel spins off the hiway towards the west and you were actually in Albert Shire (in a lot of places up and down the coast).
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Any idea why?
This isn’t the first time he has departed IIRC?
Wasn’t he PD of 2HD too? Who’s in charge now?
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Yes, I’ve found reception starts to fade quickly once you get north of Southport.
Yes once you get past Southport it starts to conflict with a triple J, I think from the Darling Downs.
Makes me think that once Radio 97 converts to full coverage FM they won’t use 104.1
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