Radio Stations in Victoria Australia

21/01/2023

In the news - 1963 !

16/01/2023

Something's cropped up right next to AO Radio in the inner city. It's not on the database, but on air it is, it's very different to everything with its full on hip hop rapping and urban sounds. It has an Instagram page and a website - WHIZ 99.9 FM

31/08/2020

All the Melbourne sub metro community radio stations.

31/08/2020

Have you found something interesting or unexpected on your radio dial? Share the story!

28/08/2020

In Melbourne, there's 11 local (submetro) community radio stations. Originally the plan was for five, one each for North, East, West, South and Central. However this turned into 11 on the heels of the Sydney situation where a similar number of local community stations were allowed to proceed. In March 1990 the ABA licenced 8 new local stations to join the pre-existing 3WRB, 3RIM and 3RPP. For these eight stations, they all share this year as a 30 year milestone of continuous licenced community broadcasting.

18/07/2020

Gippsland will have a new Triple M from July 20th. It's not a new station, it's a renamed existing one, with HIT 94.3 becoming Triple M 94.3. This means that from Melbourne with good enough receiver, you can listen to Triple M from Melbourne, Bendigo and Gippsland and see how different they might be. Why the change? I guess there's some reasoning behind it, market research, perhaps most likely advertising driven, anyhow....
Here's the SCA spin on the change-over...

A mmmassive change is coming!

04/07/2020

Well, it's back on air as the Mornington Peninsula's Easy Music "3MP". Started at 6pm 3/7 with an advert for Peninsula Curtains and Blinds. Sounds like the easy music last played before sport took it away. Welcome back 3MP.

03/07/2020

SEN TRACK (formerly.SEN Plus) is now on 1593 am and 1377am.
A return of Easy Music 3MP under Ace Radio ownership will commence on 1377 at 6pm today.
Rete Italia/Niche Radio, formerly on 1593, has moved to DAB+!

16/01/2020

Radio 3WRB vanished from the Melbourne airwaves today (16/1/2020). The station was the first of the sub Metro stations to benlicenced. It's history wasnt always ethnic programs and country music, rather it was originally associated with Footscray Tech College. The website stereo974.com (still online as of today) shows a good historical overview of the station. Details of the closure seem short in supply, however the licence was to have been surrendered to the ACMA and that, was that.

16/01/2020

3WRB FM (Stereo 974) has ceased broadcasting today on 97.4.

16/01/2020

3WRB 97.4 FM went off the air just after midday today Jan 16th 2020. The website offered no detail, there were no on air announcements to explain, and the audio stream continues on Tune In. There have been discussions suggesting this may happen, and obviously these were accurate. So, the longest running sub Metro community station in Melbourne has said goodbye to the airwaves. No d you, at the end it only carried Live program is g from non English language groups, the rest was automated with a country music "format" with no updated content.

16/01/2020

Stereo 974 (3WRB) ceased transmission today, around midday. The station's last programming was country music. There were rumours of the closure around various discussion groups however nothing was issued as an official explanation.

12/07/2018

IT HAS BEEN A WHILE BUT THOUGHT I'd check how many radio stations in the USA use or have used Australian styled call letters. In fact these all derive from official call signs including 3 W's and one other letter, eg: WSWW - brands as 3WS. Yes there is also WWWW which brands as "4W Country". There seems to be usage of the 3W # and possible 3K #, but no other numerical prefix seems in use.

3WC - CHRISTIAN RADIO 1340 & 100.1
http://www.hometownchristianradio.com/

3WD -
NOW THE LAKE 107.7
https://mytuner-radio.com/radio/wwdw-3wd-1077-fm-428563/

3KMG
www.mtulloss.wixsite.com/3kmgradio

3WK
https://www.3wk.com/

3WL 1350
http://www.hot929nola.com/
NOW SIMMULCAST OF hot929 SINCE 2016

3WS 94.5
https://3wsradio.iheart.com/

3WT 1500
SHORT LIVED TALK FORMAT, WASHINGTON
SEE http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2008/08/dc-hybrid-talk-station-3wt-shutting.html

3WV
3wv.com
97.5 3WV - WWWV - FM 97.5 - Charlottesville, VA

19/09/2017

BRISBANE: Youth station Switch 1197 changes identity to BYR (Brisbane Youth Radio) and official callsign from 4BI to 4YB.

BRISBANE: Rete Italia 1053 AM is now Rhythm - a new Hindi language Bollywood Music station. Website: radiorhythm.com.au

This adds to Brisvaani 1701.am to have 2 stations reaching the Hindi speaking population in Brisbane. The website refers to "Melbourne Get Ready", no details shown on frequency, however it will compete with 1674.am

20/02/2016

Sydney Radio 2CH re-brands to Magic 2CH. After a short while as "Happy Days" with a smiley face logo, the station has confirmed its place as part of the Magic Network, now in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. New url is www.magic2ch.com.au

05/02/2016

WILL NXFM wave goodbye to the NX brand ? Will it retain its identity with the logo change or lose the NX brand altogether ?

05/02/2016

Hobart 100.9 joins the Cyan Pink and Black coloured logo network.

29/01/2016

Well after a year waiting, Canberra's 104.7 got a new look.

02/01/2016

Whose doing what this year, got any Goss - tell us and we will let big wide world know !

01/12/2015

Southern suburbs based 88.3 FM (Southern FM*) off the air, transmitter still running. Probably a tech or linking problem, however its unusual not to run something from the transmitter site as an interim measure

12/09/2015

Well, Hit 101.9 Fox finally got the flick, and 2day Sydney was also saved from a name change. Will it be possible that B105 and SAFM may refer to their old names instead of Hit105 and Hit107 ? Since the name change the stations lost audience and marched to near bottom of the survey.

10/05/2015

May 2015: MyMP has rebranded to 3MP

13/04/2015

Meanwhile 96 FM in Perth have launched a new website in the style and format of the east coast stations. It does not appear to have a changed logo YET, despite its sound being aligned to the Classic Rock Network, its been promoted to be a member of the KIIS network - Will Perth lose its rock station to become KISS 96 FM ? If you listen to it, you'll understand that going KIIS will absolutely and permanently ruin the station. www.96fm.com.au

13/04/2015

Magic 1278 fires every announcer on its line up and places fill ins - have to ask if its Junking the station, to relaunching as a new format and identity ? This follows the "merger" of Fairfax's radio network and John Singleton's Macquarie Radio Network. Will we see MTR Mk II ?

05/04/2015

EASTER - Brisbane's B105 has changed its logo from "hit 105.3 B105" to just "hit105" Next: Melbourne or Sydney ?

07/03/2015

When it obtained its "supplementary" FM Licence, 2AY moved its primary service to 104.9 as 2AY FM and identified it's AM station as simply 1494AM, However not too long afterwards, moved the 2AY branded station back to the AM band and launched B104.9 . B104.9 (2AAY) is better known now as STAR FM.

02/02/2015

THE EAR SAYS: The Melbourne 3 Hit format stations fight continues. All three have similar sounding breakfast shows, as the contest for the narrowest playlist heats up. Some tracks are played every 90 minutes! And Mix/KIIS continues with the U.S. Ryan Seacrest show against locals on the other 2 stations. Gold is alone with the 80s as is Smooth with the easy music. Will Gold and Smooth be the winners from the 3 station fight to the death over the under 25s ?

01/02/2015

SWAN HILL RADIO

31/01/2015

ALSO IN ECHUCA - The main local commercial stations 2QN and Classic Rock 102.5. Its always worth a scan of the dial when you're travelling through.

31/01/2015

ECHUCA VICTORIA:

EMFM 104.7 is a community radio station based in the city of Echuca.
EMFM has about 30 announcers, supporting & technical staff combined. Including a variety of presenters of all ages, all playing different genres of music.

NETWORK PROGRAMS FEATURED: Behind the Wheel, A Country Yarn, AIR News.

WEBSITE: http://www.radioemfm.org.au/
LISTEN LIVE: http://tunein.com/radio/Radio-EMFM-1047-s114284/