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2GB Sydney is operated by Broadcasting Station 2GB Pty. Ltd., with offices and studio at 134 Phillip Street, Sydney, and transmitter at Homebush Point, Parramatta River. 2GB operates on a power of one kilowatt and a wave length of 345 metres (870 kcs.).
Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Free Europe
Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Republic of Eire, France, West Germany [including West Berlin], Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Portugal, Saar, Spain, Switzerland, Trieste Free Territory [for Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden see Nordic Europe 1953]. Read more in our three 1953 Free Europe features:
Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Japan Radio
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How Radio Hauraki Really Got Its Name
Jan Earwaker
I remember it well - that Friday night in 1965. I had been working late and my (then) fiancé
Chris Parkinson, and our good friend Derek Lowe, had been chatting over dinner at the well-known
Auckland restaurant, El Matador. They arrived to pick me up, both very excited with a decision
which they had come to - "We have decided to start a Pirate Station - what do you think?" they asked.
Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Australia, New Zealand & Pacific
Includes Australia, New Zealand, Territory of Hawaii, Territory of Papua, U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Guam, Ryukyu Islands, Bonin Islands, French Settlements in Oceania, New Caledonia, Fiji, Western Samoa, American Samoa, Pitcairn Island, Midway Island, Johnston Island, British Solomon Islands Protectorate, Anglo-American Condominium of Canton & Enderbury Islands.
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Retro Radio Dial: 1953 South East Asia Radio
Burma, Indo-China, Indonesia, Malaya, Netherlands New Guinea, North Borneo [Philippines: see separate entry]
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Retro Radio Dial: 1953 South Asia Radio
Bhutan, Ceylon, India, Kashmir, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan [East], Portuguese India [Goa]
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Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Brazil Radio
This is a list of radio stations known to be broadcasting from Brazil in 1953 and includes mediumwave [AM], shortwave [SW] and FM. At the time, Rio de Janeiro was the capital city and Brasila had not been built.
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Thanks for visiting us todayHello 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.
Enjoy the celebration of memories hereThe 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.
Join us on Facebook tooWe 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............
Stability in times of changeThis 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.
You can trust us to be hereEnjoy 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/DigitalThousands 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/LPFMOver 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 AucklandFOUR "YANKS" WITH ENTERTAINING WAYSBy 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.
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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.
Chairman's MessageThe ruthless passage of time means that showcasing heritage & history needs continual reinventing to stay relevant. Take radio broadcasting of the 1930-1950 era.
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.
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.
>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
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
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Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Nordic Europe Radio
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Svalbard
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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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Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Canada AM Radio
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Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Philippines AM/SW Radio
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Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Middle East / Central Asia Radio
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Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Africa SW Radio
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Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Africa AM Radio
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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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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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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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Retro Radio Dial: 1988 Australia FM Radio
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Retro Radio Dial: 1988 Australia Western Australia AM Radio
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Retro Radio Dial: 1988 Australia South Australia/NT AM Radio
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Retro Radio Dial: 1988 Australia Queensland AM Radio
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Retro Radio Dial: 1988 Australia Victoria/Tasmania AM Radio
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Retro Radio Dial: 1988 Australia ACT/NSW AM Radio
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Retro Radio Dial: Idaho
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Retro Radio Dial: Texas
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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.> read more
2013 New Year MessageThis 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.
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.
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.
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
Phoenix Islands Protected Area
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.
Radio JAFA AucklandAll I hear is Radio JAFAEdward Rooney Auckland has more radio stations than any other city - and we're intensely loyal to our favourites. Edward Rooney tunes in. New Plymouth Boys Dig Radio from GullySchool radio gets too close for comfortJO 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.
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.
All Noise All The Time from AFM AucklandRadio bleep bleepDANIELLE 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.
"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.
Paekakariki FM Has Live Bird CallsStation heard all over worldBEN 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.
Lyall Bay School Radio Maranui FMLyall Bay kids relish roles on radioERIN 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.
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.
Richmond View School Radio Zestoboom
Junior DJs take to airwaves 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.
> read more 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.
Kiwi Radio Hall of Fame Paddy O'DonnellRenowned radio veteran Paddy O'Donnell diesKAY 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.
DJ Bobby is new on BlueDJ wants more folk to use radioEMMA DANGERFIELD
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.
Free Fijian on Free FMListeners from around the worldCHRIS GARDNER
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.
Reporter Guest DJ at Port FM AshburtonA guest radio star is bornMid 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.
> read more Iwi Radio Tainui Spots Talent in Ngaruawahia95.4 - Radio Tainui in NgaruawhaiaALISTAIR BONE
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...
Kia Ora Access ManawatuConcert treatJUDITH LACY
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.
Sounds FM Christchurch SilencedFine 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.
Wadsworth, Womad & 107.6 FMHelper a total fan of festivalKATE SAUNDERS
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.
Keri Country FMRadio repertoireSandy Myhre
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.
Phil Digs River City Dagsy FMCreative job seeker takes to airwavesAaron van Delden
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.
Ranfurly Radio Burn729Radio station burns through the yearsCHE BAKER
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.
2ZA Heritage Vinyl Collection Found in LevinSound investmentJONO GALUSZKA More than 700 pieces of Palmerston North broadcast history have been unearthed from a basement in Levin.
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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