Thanks for visiting us today
Hello and thanks for visiting our website, the public face of the Global Radio Memories Project.
We started out with just a few features nearly 10 years ago, and have steadily grown over the years since.
In those days social media as we know it today didn't exist, and if you wanted to listen to the radio your choice was mostly limited to AM, FM or shortwave.
In fact, radio as we know it will be struggling to reach 100 years old in many countries, as the pace of change moves faster.
Already, AM is becoming a thing of the past, even FM is disappearing from dials in some countries, and shortwave, the old fashioned way to tour the world by radio, is rapidly going silent worldwide.
We've all been touched by radio: through music we know and love, through news, sports, events and just it's familiar place in our daily lives and family memories.
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A boy, a girl and a transistor radio
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Enjoy the celebration of memories here
The Radio Heritage Foundation has a mission to protect, preserve and celebrate the memories each of us has about how radio plays a role in our lives, and has shaped much of modern culture as we know it today.
We do this through curated features, exhibitions and other material here, where everything is shared with free access to everybody, anywhere and anytime.
The Retro Radio Dial, Popular Culture, Art of Radio, Island Radio Pacific Style, Pacific USA, Australian Radio Pioneers, Long Lost Australian Radio Stars, AFRS Armed Forces Radio Memories, New Zealand Radio, Amateur Radio, Asian Radio...... these are the main groups of material we have today, and more will come as we keep unlocking our archives.
Our current radio guides are very popular: Australian Radio Guide, New Zealand Radio Guide, Pacific Asian Listener Guide all make it easy to find links to and information about thousands of today's radio stations and meet a real need to cut through so much online clutter to find simple information you can trust.
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Join us on Facebook too
We have a Facebook page where we share less formal news and comments with hundreds of friends worldwide.
So, what you see on this website is just the tip of the iceberg. We actively collect and protect original radio memorabilia, and store it safely. This material helps us research new features, and there is a plan to digitize it all and add it to a new look website in 2014.
Social media is good for posting photos and one line comments about radio stations, personalities, memories and more, before they're lost in a daily deluge of more and become lost.
But social media is ephemeral, here one second, gone in the blink of an eye............
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KZOO has been serving Honolulu for 50 years
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Stability in times of change
This website is here to provide stability as these changes wash over us and threaten to sweep away the memories and the memorabilia.
It takes time, dedication and effort to keep it relevant, and some days, even existing, as volunteer based organizations can be overwhelmed with just the daily grind of finding money and resources to keep going.
We rely entirely on individuals to make donations of money, memorabilia and time.
So when we ask if you'll join us and become a supporter, we know you're faced with many good causes and have to set your own priorities.
Our team of worldwide existing supporters would welcome your joining them to help protect, preserve and celebrate radio memories here.
Under the KULA hula girl in the right hand corner of every page of this website you can make a fast and easy donation of money today.
You'll be very glad you did.
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100 years worth of radio news
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You can trust us to be here
Enjoy what's on offer, come back often and please tell your friends about us through any of the social media links you'll find on each page.
Thank you for your interest in the Global Radio Memories Project, we hope you find what you're looking for and you can trust us to still be here when you come back again................
NEW!!! Aussie Radio Guide AM/FM/Digital
Thousands of Aussie radio stations now easily found in the new look Australian Radio Guide - search
locations from A-Z, state by state, frequency and even by individual station brand or call sign. Easy internet streaming direct from station
websites too.
The only guide you'll ever need so bookmark the pages and come back as often as you like. It's always free to use and open 24/7.
NEW!! NZ Radio Guide AM/FM/LPFM
Over 1,000 Kiwi radio stations now easily found in the brand new New Zealand Radio Guide - search
locations from A-Z, region by region, frequency, and even by individual station brand. Easy internet streaming direct
from station websites too.
The only complete guide of its kind available in New Zealand so bookmark the pages and come back as often as you like. It's always free to use and open 24/7
Mosquito Network AES 1ZM Auckland
FOUR "YANKS" WITH ENTERTAINING WAYS
By E. K. GREEN
YOU could call yourself an optimist if you expected to find a radio station high in personality power in that building at the top of Shortland Street that looks like a cross between an electric power board sub-station and a mausoleum. But buildings don't mean a thing to Technical-Sergeant Larry Dysart, and Sergeants Gene Twombley, Karl Jean and Frank Gaunt, all of the U.S. Army.
You see, they are four Yanks with ideas about pleasing a radio audience that have no relation to the buildings in which they are located. With memories, dating back a year, when they manned the first American Expeditionary station in the South Pacific (it was in New Caledonia, if you want to know) and found it a 12 by 8 room, containing turntable, control panel, microphone, record library ("and," adds Gene, "Sergeant Dysart, writing out the news") they look at their soon-to-be-vacated two-room station in the basement of 1YA and call it a home away from home.
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Radio 2AP Samoa in 1949
WIRELESS waves have
taken Samoa by storm.
Radio 2AP, non-existent
a year ago and established by the
late Major E. Lloyd, formerly of
2YZ Napier, ranks as one of the
achievements of the New Zealand
administration in Samoa. On any of
the five nights a week on which 2AP
is on the air, from village to village
throughout Samoa, at least two-thirds
of the inhabitants are listening.
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Chairman's Message
The ruthless passage of time means that showcasing heritage & history
needs continual reinventing to stay relevant.
Take radio broadcasting of the 1930-1950 era.
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HCJB 1951
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Assume someone was just 20 years old in 1950 to have been involved
[other than being a listener] in broadcasting, and basic math tells
us that person is now 83 years old, 93 if they were 20 in 1940 and
103 if they were 20 in 1930.......
And only if they're even still alive and with us...... statistically,
most of them simply aren't any more.
If they are, a significant number are now unable to physically get
around the house or the neighborhood easily, have restricted
financial means, and simply don't have internet access.
Sadly, they're a critical but now fading group for a memorabilia
project like ours.
Move along a generation to their children, now aged between 63-83.
Still some life left in this group yet, which now includes the first
baby boomers as well. The links to the past are getting weaker, but
in some ways, they represent the second golden period of radio
through the 1950's, and bring a new range of interest, involvement,
memories and engagement to this project.
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Manila 1961 DZAS + SW transmitters
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Then, the grandchildren of our 20 year old generation from
1950...... now aged 43-63 and struggling with life today, sandwiched
between care needing parents and their own children [and their
grandchildren] in tough economic times.
How does a project like ours, which covers radio from the 1920's up
to today, remain relevant to different generations all with different
experiences and expectations, and interests?
As a web based project, we can probably move faster than a museum or
archive full of locked away artifacts.
We also know that some of the 20 year old folks from 1950 still hold
and express strong views about radio in their day, and do what they
can to encourage us. Their children also have memories of a strong
influence of radio in their popular culture of life, and browse our
hundreds of features.
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AWA Sydney 2CH Tower c1960
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>From our research and our Facebook page we know most of our
supporters, those who engage with us, those who make a donation of
money, time and materials from time to time are actually aged about
45-65.......... with some spillover over to 65-75 and under to
35-45.......... so we wish to acknowledge these hard pressed folks in
particular for finding some time to honor the past and remember their
parents generation, and contribute to a project that one of our
visitors from India has described 'as an encyclopedia'............
Encyclopedias are fast becoming dinosaurs of today's information age,
along with museum artifacts and physical storage facilities so I hope
you'll agree we need to continue telling more stories, stories based
on sound and accurate knowledge of the facts.............and I hope
you'll find ways to keep us relevant, accurate, honest and inclusive
as we move towards our first 10 years online......and no matter what
your age, memories or means.
Thank you for trusting us to share your stories and memories.
David Ricquish
Chairman
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.com
The Global Radio Memories Project
An independent non-profit made possible thanks to a core group of
supporters all over the world who like what we do.
Will you join them today?
Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Iron Curtain Europe Radio
Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, USSR [Bielorussia,
Estonia, Karelia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, RSFSR, Ukraine] Yugoslavia
| kc/Mc |
Station |
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Location |
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| 155 | Radio Moscow 1 | USSR | Moscow, RSFSR |
| 173 | Radio Moscow 1 | USSR | Moscow, RSFSR |
| 185 | Deutschlandsender | East Germany | Berlin |
| 200 | Radio Moscow II | USSR | Moscow, RSFSR |
| 209 | Radio Kiev I | USSR | Kiev, Ukraine |
| 227 | Polskie Radio | Poland | Warsaw |
| | Warsaw Calling | Poland | Warsaw |
| 236 | Radio Leningrad I | USSR | Leningrad, RSFSR |
| | Radio Moscow 1 | USSR | Moscow, RSFSR |
| 272 | Radio Praha II | Czechoslovakia | Praha |
| 281 | Radio Minsk | USSR | Minsk, Bielorussia |
| 385 | Radio Charkov | USSR | Charkov, Ukraine |
> read more
Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Nordic Europe Radio
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Svalbard
| kc/Mc |
Station |
Country |
Location |
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| Longwave |
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| 155 | Norsk Rikskringkasting | Norway | Tromso |
| 182 | TFU | Iceland | Reykjavik |
| | Sveriges Radio | Sweden | Lulea |
| 191 | Sveriges Radio | Sweden | Motala |
| 218 | Norsk Rikskringkasting | Norway | Oslo |
| 245 | Danmarks Radio I | Denmark | Kalundborg |
| 254 | Suomen Yleisradio | Finland | Lathi |
| 420 | Sveriges Radio | Sweden | Ostersund |
| 433 | Suomen Yleisradio | Finland | Oulu |
| 520 | Suomen Yleisradio | Finland | Joensuu |
| | Norsk Rikskringkasting | Norway | Hamar |
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| 557 | Suomen Yleisradio | Finland | Helsinki 1 |
| 593 | Sveriges Radio | Sweden | Sundsvall |
| 611 | TFE | Iceland | Eidar |
| 629 | Norsk Rikskringkasting | Norway | Vigra |
> read more
Retro Radio Dial: 1953 North Asia Radio
China, Formosa, Hong Kong, Indo-China, South Korea, Macau, Mongolia, USSR [Russian Far East, Siberia] and
currently excludes North Korea and AFRS South Korea.
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Location |
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| 182 | Radio Moscow | USSR | Novosbirsk, Siberia |
| 227 | Radio Moscow | USSR | Irkutsk, Siberia |
| 236 | Radio Moscow | USSR | Yakutsk, Siberia |
| 263 | Radio Moscow | USSR | Krasnojarsk, Siberia |
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| 560 | HLKA | South Korea | Seoul |
| 570 | CPBS | China | South West China |
| | HLKF | South Korea | Iri |
| 600 | HLKQ | South Korea | Chungju |
| | HLKO | South Korea | Masan |
| 640 | CPBS | China | Peking |
> read more
Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Canada AM Radio
| kc |
Call |
Location |
Province |
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| 540 | CBK | Watrous | SK |
| 550 | CKPG | Prince George | BC |
| | CFNB | Fredericton | NB |
| | CHLN | Three Rivers | PQ |
| 560 | CJKL | Kirkland Lake | ON |
| | CFRA | Ottawa | ON |
| 570 | CJEM | Edmunston | NB |
| 580 | CKCH | Edmonton | AB |
| | CKY | Winnipeg | MB |
| | CJFX | Antigonish | NS |
| | CKPR | Fort Williams | ON |
| | CFCL | Timmins | ON |
> read more
Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Philippines AM/SW Radio
| kc |
Call/Brand |
Location |
Owner |
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| 580 | DZBB | Manila | The Republic Broadcasting System |
| 600 | DYRC Voice of Cebu | Cebu City | Cebu Broadcasting Company |
| 650 | DZRH Voice of the Philippines | Manila | Manila Broadcasting Company |
| 680 | DZAS | Manila | Far East Broadcasting Company |
| 710 | DZFM | Manila | The Peoples Station |
| 760 | DZMB Voice of Manila | Manila | Manila Broadcasting Company |
| 800 | DZPI | Manila | Philippine Broadcasting Corporation |
| 840 | DYSR | Damaguete City | Silliman University |
| 860 | DZST | Manila | University of Santo Tomas |
> read more
Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Middle East / Central Asia Radio
| kc |
Call/Brand |
Country |
Location |
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| 182 | TAR Radio Ankara | Turkey | Ankara |
| 191 | Radio Tbilisi | USSR | Tbilisi, Georgian SSR |
| 218 | Radio Baku | USSR | Baku, Azerbaijan SSR |
| 254 | Radio Tashkent | USSR | Tashkent, Uzbek SSR |
| 272 | Radio Alma Ata | USSR | Alma Ata, Kazakh SSR |
| 400 | Radio Tashkent | USSR | Tashkent, Uzbek SSR |
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| 575 | 4XB36 Kol Israel | Israel | Tel Aviv |
| 602 | SBS | Syria | Damascus |
| 606 | [British] Forces Broadcasting Service | Cyprus | Lakatamia |
| 611 | Radio Frunze | USSR | Frunze, Kirghiz SSR |
| 629 | Radio Pakistan | Pakistan | Peshawar |
| 635 | Near East Arab Broadcasting Station | Cyprus | Sharq al Adna |
| 652.1 | 4XB47 Kol Israel | Israel | Tel Aviv |
> read more
Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Africa SW Radio
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Call/Brand |
Country |
Location |
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| 3205 | FIQA Radio Tananarive | Madagascar | Tananarive |
| 3251 | Radio Dar es Salaam | Tanganyika Trust Territory | Dar es Salaam |
| 3290 | SABC | Union of South Africa | Johannesburg |
| 3318 | FIQA Radio Tananarive | Madagascar | Tananarive |
| 3320 | SRBC | Southern Rhodesia | Salisbury |
| 3340 | Kampala Broadcasting Station | Uganda Protectorate | Kampala |
| 3356 | SABC Springbok Radio | Union of South Africa | Johannesburg |
| 3370 | SABC | Union of South Africa | Johannesburg |
| 3380 | Radio St Denis | Reunion | St Denis |
| 3390 | OQ2AC Radio College | Belgian Congo | Elisabethville |
| 3420 | CR6RK Radio Clube do Sul Angola | Angola | Lobito |
> read more
Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Africa AM Radio
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Call/Brand |
Country |
Location |
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| | | 548 | SABC Springbok Radio | Union of South Africa | Johannesburg W |
| 557 | SABC | Union of South Africa | Cape Town |
| 566 | SABC | Union of South Africa | Pietermaritzburg |
| 572.5 | SBS Radio Omdurman | Anglo-Egyptian Condominium of Sudan | Khartoum |
| 575 | PAR3 Pan American Broadcasting System | Tangier International Zone | Tangier |
| 584 | SRBC | Southern Rhodesia | Salisbury |
| 593 | SABC | Union of South Africa | Grahamstown |
| 602 | SABC | Union of South Africa | Durban |
| 611 | Radio Maroc | Morocco | Sebaa-Ayoun |
| | SRBC | Southern Rhodesia | Bulawayo |
| 620 | ESB | Egypt | Cairo |
| | SABC | Union of South Africa | Bloemfontein |
| 624 | Radio St Denis | Reunion | St Denis |
> read more
Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Caribbean AM/SW Radio
Barbados, Bermuda, British Guiana, Dutch Guiana, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Netherlands
Antilles, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago and excluding Cuba, Dominican Republic and Haiti
Share your own memories of Caribbean Radio
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Call/Brand |
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| 550 | WPAB | Puerto Rico | Ponce |
| 580 | WKAQ | Puerto Rico | San Juan |
| 658 | Radio Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe | Basse-Terre |
| 670 | ZQI Radio Jamaica | Jamaica | Kingston |
| 680 | WAPA | Puerto Rico | San Juan |
| 710 | WKJB | Puerto Rico | Mayaguez |
| 722 | PJC2 Juliana Zender | Netherlands Antilles | Willemstad, Curacao |
| 740 | WIAC | Puerto Rico | Santurce |
> read more
Retro Radio Dial: 1988 Caribbean FM Radio
Belize, Bermuda, French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Caribbean excluding Cuba, Dominican Republic and Haiti
Share your own memories of Caribbean Radio
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Call/Brand |
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Location |
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| 88.1 | DBC Dominica Broadcasting Service | Dominica | Roseau |
| | WCRP | Puerto Rico | Guayama |
| 88.3 | Friends FM | Belize | Punta Gorda |
| 88.5 | WKVN-FM | Puerto Rico | Levittown |
| 88.7 | WPRT Radio | Turks & Caicos Islands | Providenciales |
| 88.9 | Friends FM | Belize | Ladyville |
> read more
Retro Radio Dial: 1988 Caribbean AM/SW Radio
Belize, Bermuda, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama Canal Zone, Surinam, Caribbean excluding Cuba, Dominican Republic & Haiti
Share your own memories of Caribbean Radio
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Call/Brand |
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Location |
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| 535 | Radio Grenada | Grenada | St.George’s |
| 550 | RJR The Supreme Sound | Jamaica | Montego Bay |
| | WPAB | Puerto Rico | Ponce |
| 555 | ZIZ | St.Kitts & Nevis | Basseterre, St.Kitts |
| 560 | GBC Channel Two | Guyana | Georgetown |
| | New Radio Company of Jamaica | Jamaica | Kingston |
| 580 | RJR The Supreme Sound | Jamaica | Galina |
| | WKAQ | Puerto Rico | San Juan |
| 595 | DBC Dominica Broadcasting Service | Dominica | Roseau |
| 600 | WAEL | Puerto Rico | Mayaguez |
| | SRS | Surinam | Paramaribo |
> read more
Retro Radio Dial: 1988 Australia FM Radio
| Frequency |
Call |
Location |
Owner |
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| 89.3 | 4CRB | Gold Coast | Gold Coast Christian & Community Broadc Assoc
| | 91.5 | 4MKt | Airlie Beach | Wesgo Communications Pty Ltd
| | 92.1 | 5ABC-FM | Adelaide | ABC-FM
| | 92.1 | 6UVS | Perth | Universities Radio Ltd
| | 92.1 | 7THE | Hobart | Hobart FM Inc
| | 92.3 | 2MCE | Bathurst | Mitchell College of Advanced Education
| | 92.5 | 2NCR | Lismore | Northern Rivers College Of Advanced Education
| | 92.5 | 3ABC-FM | Maryborough | ABC-FM
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> read more
Retro Radio Dial: 1988 Australia Western Australia AM Radio
| Frequency |
Call |
Location |
Owner |
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| 540 | 6DL | Dalwallinu | ABC Regional Radio
| | 558 | 6WA | Wagin | ABC Regional Radio
| | 567 | 6MN | Newman | ABC Regional Radio
| | | 6PN | Pannawonica | ABC Regional Radio
| | | 6PU | Paraburdoo | ABC Regional Radio
| | | 6TP | Tom Price | ABC Regional Radio
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Retro Radio Dial: 1988 Australia South Australia/NT AM Radio
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Call |
Location |
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Owner |
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| 531 | 5UV | Adelaide | | Radio 5UV University of Adelaide |
| 639 | 5CK | Port Pirie | | ABC Regional Radio |
| 657 | 8DR | Darwin | NT | ABC Regional Radio |
| 675 | 8KN | Katherine | NT | ABC Regional Radio |
| 684 | 8TC | Tennant Creek | NT | ABC Regional Radio |
| 693 | 5SY | Streaky Bay | | ABC Regional Radio |
> read more
Retro Radio Dial: 1988 Australia Queensland AM Radio
| Frequency |
Call |
Location |
Owner |
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| 531 | 4KZ | Innisfail | Coastal Broadcasters Pty Ltd
| | 540 | 4QL | Longreach | ABC Regional
| | 558 | 4AM | Mareeba | Far Northern Radio Pty Ltd
| | | 4GY | Gympie | Wesgo Communications Pty Ltd
| | 567 | 4JK | Julia Creek | ABC Regional
| | 603 | 4CH | Charleville | ABC Regional
| | 612 | 4QR | Brisbane | ABC Metropolitan
| | 630 | 4QN | Townsville | ABC Regional
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Retro Radio Dial: 1988 Australia Victoria/Tasmania AM Radio
| Frequency |
Call |
Location |
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Owner |
| 531 | 3UL | Warragul | | Associated Broadcasting Services Ltd |
| 540 | 7SD | Scottsdale | TAS | North East Tasmania Radio Broadcasters Pty Ltd |
| 558 | 7BU | Burnie | TAS | Burnie Broadcasting Services Pty Ltd |
| 594 | 3WV | Horsham | | ABC Regional |
| 603 | 7ZL | Hobart | TAS | ABC Radio National |
| 621 | 3AR | Melbourne | | ABC Radio National |
> read more
Retro Radio Dial: 1988 Australia ACT/NSW AM Radio
| Frequency |
Call |
Location |
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Owner |
| 531 | 2MC | Port Macquarie | | Wesgo Communications Pty Ltd |
| 540 | 2CR | Orange | | ABC Regional |
| 567 | 2BH | Broken Hill | | Far West Radio Pty Ltd |
| 576 | 2FC | Sydney | | ABC Radio National |
| 585 | 2WEB | Bourke | | Western Region Educational Broadcasting Co. Ltd |
| 639 | 2CS | Coffs Harbour | | Commercial Radio Coffs Harbour Ltd |
> read more
Retro Radio Dial: Idaho
| Frequency |
Call |
Location |
Owner |
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| 540 | KBRV | Soda Springs | JC Wallentine |
| 580 | KFXD | Nampa | Fletcher-Mitchell Corporation |
| 590 | KID | Idaho Falls | Idaho Broadcasting Corporation |
| 620 | KWAL | Wallace | Metals Broadcasting Company |
| 630 | KIDO | Boise | Mesabi Western Corporation |
> read more
Retro Radio Dial: Texas
| Frequency |
Call |
Location |
Owner |
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| AM |
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| 550 | KTSA | San Antonio | Sunshine Broadcasting Company |
| 560 | KFDM | Beaumont | Beaumont Broadcasting Corporation |
| 570 | WBAP | Fort Worth | Carter Publications Inc |
| | WFAA | Dallas | AH Belo Corporation |
| 580 | KDAV | Lubbock | Western Broadcasting Company |
| 590 | KTBC | Austin | LBJ Company |
| 600 | KERB | Kermit | Radio Station KERB Inc |
| | KROD | El Paso | Southwest States Inc |
| | KTBB | Tyler | Blackstone Broadcasting Company |
> read more
Regional Advisory Groups
Join the team today!
Through 2013 and 2014, join us and help plan the growth of the project as it expands into
new parts of the world! Join one of these Regional Advisory Groups and be a key part of the
Co-operative Global Radio Memories Project.
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2013 New Year Message
This global co-operative project is made possible thanks to the generosity of a growing number of people who think it’s a good idea to keep radio memories alive.
The idea was born over 10 years ago, and this website went live just after the big Asian tsunami in 2004 and over the years has grown organically.
Almost 60,000 visitors stopped by last year, or about 165 people every day on average. That’s a lot of responsibility to keep things updated, accurate and family friendly.
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Where do people live? The Top 15 visitor cities are Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Auckland, Adelaide, Perth, Wellington, Christchurch, London UK, Canberra, Hobart, Hamilton NZ, Cranbourne [Melbourne], New Delhi and Los Angeles.
It costs A$407 a week to meet the existing operational costs of the Radio Heritage Foundation, and this will be capped for the next 5 years. No-one gets paid for their time or skills. The idea is also to achieve the split funding of these costs as voluntary donations [35%] and commercial sponsors & partners [65%] so access to the community resource of the website stays free.
Since 2004, two board members have mortgaged their own home to pay most of these operational costs and meet their daily living expenses, but the project has now matured enough for this burden to be shared by those who care enough for it to continue. Every one is a volunteer and acknowledged on the Roll of Honor.
The project is based in New Zealand, and receives no government funding or grants, and no financial support from the radio industry anywhere in the world.
Radio heritage is interconnected and global, no single station, city, state or country
project can tell the full story. This is why this project initially covers the Asia and Pacific region, and over time will expand to include North, Central & South America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Radio waves know no borders.
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As a true global co-operative, volunteers are based in several countries, donations of funds and memorabilia come from countless countries, board members are in Asia, Europe, North America and the Pacific, and visitors come to learn from all over the world, the top 5 countries being Australia, USA, New Zealand, UK and India, followed by Canada, Japan, Germany, Netherlands and Italy.
People come for memories and nostalgia reasons, to study genealogy, to consult the growing number of radio guides and to learn about popular culture, personalities and how the media has developed in peace and at war and across the generations and the century since the 1920’s.
This year, a new Pay it Forward category allows people to pay for the next 10-40 people who visit the site as a gift to others. Each visit costs about 0.50c in operational costs to service, not everyone can afford to pay or wants to pay for just one or two visits, so this option fits with the co-operative approach started almost 10 years ago and everyone who uses the site benefits from this community gifting model.
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Through 2013, look for the new ’25 Years Ago’ series which turns the spotlight on radio in 1988, expansion of the various radio guides, a new series with a focus on over 200 pioneer broadcasters in Australia, and more contributions and columns from interesting people with fascinating radio stories and tales to share.
Through the year and behind the scenes, a growing team is working on designing and building the new website scheduled for launch in January 2014, the 10th anniversary of this global project going on-line. At the back end will be an immense interactive archival database of sounds, pictures, words and documents and at the front end you’ll see a fresh, clean magazine style look to showcase features, services and make things easier to find.
Please stay with us in 2013 and do join the all volunteer team of writers, researchers, data base builders, contributors of memorabilia and memories, financial supporters and commercial partners and sponsors, and of course, visit often and enjoy the fruits of this global co-operative project.
David Ricquish
Chairman
January 2013
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Phoenix Islands Protected Area
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We support the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, home of WXLE Radio on Canton [Kanton] Island in
what is now Kiribati, and which was formerly in the Anglo-American Condominium of Canton &
Enderbury Islands 1939-1979.
We recommend their new fundraiser book ‘Underwater Eden: Saving the Last Coral Wilderness on Earth’
which features material from the Radio Heritage Foundation Collection.
For our features on Canton Island, see Hermit Crab Network,
WXLE Radio 1385 and WXLE Memories
in the AFRS Radio Memories series and our Long Lost Radio Images collection.
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Voice of Peace - Mediterranean Radio Memories
STEPHEN OLIVER
Looking back now upon the near vanished "frequency" of my youth; through filtered static,
"The Voice of Peace" radio ship hauls into view, mist shrouded as memory. A ghost ship.
But in 1979, broadcasting "Somewhere In The Mediterranean" out of the Port of Jaffa,
Israel – this was an adventure waiting to happen to a young broadcaster. I had not yet
turned 30.
> read more
Radio JAFA Auckland
All I hear is Radio JAFA
Edward Rooney
Auckland has more radio stations than any other city - and we're
intensely loyal to our favourites. Edward Rooney tunes in.
> read more
New Plymouth Boys Dig Radio from Gully
School radio gets too close for comfort
JO MOIR
A few teething problems have forced Taranaki's newest radio station to change
its frequency for broadcasting.
Gully FM, run by pupils at New Plymouth Boys' High School, went live to air last
week but found it was interrupting a nearby station that is forcing it to change channel.
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In the Gully, New Plymouth Boys High School
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Gully FM mastermind and year 13 pupil Sam Adlam said a radio station near the school
was not picked up when the pupils chose their 88.0 FM frequency.
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All Noise All The Time from AFM Auckland
Radio bleep bleep
DANIELLE STREET
Chris Cudby turns on the radio in the basement-level of an old tie factory and a
series of discordant bleeps seep out of the speakers.
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TUNE IN: AFM manager Chris Cudby says the new radio station will
help expose independent musicians to a global audience.
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"Quite a lot of stuff we play is experimental or noise music, so that's actually
what it's supposed to sound like," the AFM station manager explains.
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Paekakariki FM Has Live Bird Calls
Station heard all over world
BEN STRANG
Whether in Paris, New York, Paraparaumu or Paekakariki, people can tune in to the new Paekakariki FM.
The community radio station on 88.2FM started two weeks ago, and can be heard in Paekakariki on
radio, or streaming online anywhere.
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Lyall Bay School Radio Maranui FM
Lyall Bay kids relish roles on radio
ERIN KAVANAGH-HALL
Maranui FM's DJs are charming and articulate, have local knowledge and varied musical
tastes - and they are only 9 to 11 years old.
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On air: Announcer Lilly Gentile is one of 40 year 5 and 6 pupils at
Lyall Bay School who work shifts at radio station Maranui FM.
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And thanks to the station going digital this year, proud Lyall Bay School parents can
tune in to hear their budding Swampy Marshes and Polly Gillespies from anywhere.
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Richmond View School Radio Zestoboom
Junior DJs take to airwaves
Zestoboom, Zestoblat! and Zestobling
SONIA BEAL
Richmond View School in Blenheim has been making its presence felt on the airwaves,
through pupil-run radio station Radio Zestoboom! since the beginning of the year.
The station, at 88.7 FM, is broadcast out of a classroom, has a transmission of up to
one kilometre and a known group of dedicated listeners - the rest of the school and a few parents.
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Radio zest: Richmond View School pupils, Isaac Neal, Emma Foster, both
year 6, and year 8 Hannah Braddick do a lunchtime broadcast on the
school’s radio station Radio Zestoboom!
Photo: EMMA ALLEN
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Maniapoto FM Voice of the King Country Turns 21
STEPHEN OLIVER
Mfm, Te Reo Irirangi o Maniapoto, is run by a trust and its purpose is to promote and sustain
Maori culture and Maori values throughout the King Country on its four frequencies:
Waitomo 99.6FM, Piopio 92.7FM, Rereahu 91.8FM, and Waipa 106FM.
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Kiwi Radio Hall of Fame Paddy O'Donnell
Renowned radio veteran Paddy O'Donnell dies
KAY BLUNDELL
One of New Zealand's best-known broadcasters and colourful radio personalities has died.
Paddy O'Donnell, 65, had a career spanning more than 40 years in radio in New Zealand
and Australia, as well as stints compering television series, including Top Town.
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DJ Bobby is new on Blue
DJ wants more folk to use radio
EMMA DANGERFIELD
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Bob Mawer is the newest voice on Kaikoura's radio Blue FM
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With his velvet voice and love of music, Bob Mawer seems to have been made for
a job on the radio.
But although he certainly sounds the part, he has only recently taken up the
challenge of hosting his own radio show.
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Free Fijian on Free FM
Listeners from around the world
CHRIS GARDNER
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ON THE AIR: Peni Seru, presenter of Fijian language programme Bogi ni Taukei
on Hamilton’s Free FM 89 radio station which relaunched today, thinks he would not be allowed home.
Photo: KELLY HODEL/FAIRFAX NZ
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Peni Seru takes a few minutes to compose himself. I've just asked the presenter of Bogi ni Taukei,
a Fijian language programme broadcast on Hamilton community access radio station Free FM 89, how
his discussion of the Fijian Government on his show has affected his family.
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Reporter Guest DJ at Port FM Ashburton
A guest radio star is born
Mid Canterbury Herald reporter John Hobbs took on the weekly challenge this week as a
guest announcer on Port FM Ashburton.
This week I got to dabble in the world of radio after Port FM DJ Bex Carr asked me to be
a guest on her morning show – although this meant I had to be up bright and early, which
is always a challenge.
I got to the studio and made my way to Bex's lair, where I was armed with a highlighter
and a sheet of celebrity gossip snippets to read on air.
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Getting ready: John goes through the gossip list before going on air.
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Iwi Radio Tainui Spots Talent in Ngaruawahia
95.4 - Radio Tainui in Ngaruawhaia
ALISTAIR BONE
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"I believe locals need a voice and I think Auckland will miss
a lot of that." - Patara Berryman, Breakfast radio announcer.
Photo: MARK TAYLOR/Waikato Times
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There're birthday shoutouts to do and Te Reo cheats on the whiteboard near the
signed picture of Rick Dees, but Huntly-born, bred and living Patara Berryman doesn't
need any of that. He needs the Waikato Times and makes a desperate bid for it from under
a pile of stuff as the song is ending...
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Kia Ora Access Manawatu
Concert treat
JUDITH LACY
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THE POWER OF TWO: Kia Ora FM and Access Manawatu are organising Monday's Waitangi Day concert
in The Square. Pictured are Lisa Check, from Kia Ora FM, and Fraser Greig, from Access Manawatu.
Photo: ROBERT KITCHEN/FARIFAX NZ
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This year's Waitangi Day concert in The Square is a classic case of ebony and ivory.
Kia Ora FM and Access Manawatu have joined forces to organise the free family event.
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Sounds FM Christchurch Silenced
Fine for 'interfering' with air traffic control frequency
A Christchurch man who ran a hobby radio station has been fined $4000 and had his
equipment confiscated after boosting its power interfered with an air traffic control frequency.
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Wadsworth, Womad & 107.6 FM
Helper a total fan of festival
KATE SAUNDERS
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Denis Wadsworth has been volunteering at Womad for years.
Photo: JONATHAN CAMERON
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One of Denis Wadsworth's favourite sounds at Womad is the roar of generators as the festival
cranks into action.
The volunteer is one of the first on the scene on the opening day, usually turning
up at 6.30am.
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Keri Country FM
Radio repertoire
Sandy Myhre
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The multi-tasking Malcolm Hay of KeriKeri - radio station owner, broadcaster, advertising sales
person and technical expert - speaking to his public from his basement.
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It is Christmas Day in 2010 and in a suburban home on a lateral road not far from the Stone
Store in Kerikeri there is great excitement. A present has been delivered to the Hay
household but it's not one to be found under the Christmas tree wrapped in pretty
paper and tied with a bow. It will, however, greatly change the life of the recipient.
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Phil Digs River City Dagsy FM
Creative job seeker takes to airwaves
Aaron van Delden
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DO IT YOURSELF: Phil Hyde hopes his newly established
radio station will provide him with a full-time career, after almost two years without a job.
Photo: BEVAN CONLEY
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Phil Hyde has been job hunting for almost two years.
The 43-year-old was made redundant from his position at Cartridge World in Upper
Hutt in February 2010. Except for a two-month stint as a shuttle driver in
Wellington during April and May in 2011, he has remained unemployed.
But rather than despair about not being able to find a job, Mr Hyde is
trying to create his own.
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Ranfurly Radio Burn729
Radio station burns through the years
CHE BAKER
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A celebration will be held in Ranfurly this weekend to mark the 20th year on the airwaves for the area's sole radio station.
Burn 729AM station manager Quentin McIntosh said reaching the 20th year milestone was huge for the independently owned station.
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2ZA Heritage Vinyl Collection Found in Levin
Sound investment
JONO GALUSZKA
More than 700 pieces of Palmerston North broadcast history have been unearthed from a basement in Levin.
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IN A SPIN: Palmerston North record collector Paul Foote got little vinyl lights in his eyes when an 80-year-old from Levin told him he had more than 700 records in his basement.
Photo: MURRAY WILSON/FAIRFAX NZ
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Record collector Paul Foote said an 80-year-old man in Levin responded to a newspaper advertisement he had placed, asking for vinyls for his collection.
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