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History Of EON FM
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EON Jingles EON stuff including Graham & The Colonel More stuff including a grab from Oz For Africa July 13, 1985
Great album covers of the 1980s
EON FM - 1980 to 2008
Peter Grace moments before he launched FM radio on EON on July 11, 1980.
Hear original EON newsreader Jennifer Keyte, Legendary Lee Simon, Gracey and Captain Karl back on the air talking everything EON FM.
July 11 was the 28th birthday of this radio station.
It was way back in the late 1979, a bunch of guys decided to crank up a brand new radio station on one of the new FM licences, the consortium included recoding studio owner Bill Armstrong and band manager Glenn Wheatley.
It was all about the music and less about the business in those days. Despite what their license application read, they had no blueprint at all with regard to marketing, programming, administration or promotion. The next six months was then spent building a radio station from scratch. A makeshift studio was set up in Bank Street, South Melbourne, draped with hessian to deaden the noise. Late-night dummy runs were performed a week before the on-air date to test the equipment.
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On July 11, 1980, Australia's first commercial FM radio station, EON FM, began broadcasting on FM 92.3 MHz. Behind the microphone at the momentous occasion was ex-3XY DJ Peter Grace, who later said he was given that late night spot by default."It's one past midnight and this is 92.3, E-O-N FM, I'm Peter Grace and this is the beginning of a long, long time..." The first song was "New Kid in Town" by The Eagles. In 1988 EON changed their name to Triple M after the station was sold to the Hoyts Network and moved up the dial to our current home at FM 105.1.
Here's to the next 28 years.
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