Radio history is close to our hearts at Radio Survivor and on this week’s episode we explore the story of student radio in Australia. Our guest, Rafal Alumairy, is working on book about this little-told history. She shares with us details not only about the timeline of student radio in Australia, but also some intriguing […]
Looking for info on how to listen to this 2021’s Super Bowl LV? Click here. Updated Jan. 31, 2019 Once again it’s time for my annual hunt for the Super Bowl on the radio around the world. Last year I had fun listening to the first Australian to call the big game for his home […]
It would have been a bad thing indeed for Triple R community radio of Melbourne, Australia—a proposed six story development that would have blocked the link between the operation’s East Brunswick studios and its transmitter site up on Mount Dandenong. The station could have come up with a workaround, moving its radio mast, but at a […]
John Willsteed of Brisbane, Australia is setting up a “live” documentary about the Brisbane music scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The performance doc is called “It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity.” A reporter writing about Willsteed’s work places much significance on Brisbane community signal radio 4ZZZ. Tony Moore of the Brisbane […]
An interesting item from the Sydney Morning Herald: as the Australian political scene heats up, Sydney radio listeners are massively setting their ears to AM signals. “In a clear victory for the older spectrum in times of political upheaval, all of the commercial AM stations except 2UE recorded gains in their audience,” notes Herald entertainment […]
