2RDJ
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2RDJ-FM is a Community radio station in Sydney's Inner west broadcasting on 88.1 FM
Programmes cover music styles from jazz, country, dance and fine music.
Broadcasting from the first floor of the Woodstock Community Centre in Burwood, NSW, 2RDJ-FM first commenced transmission in the form of test transmissions that started in 1976 from the home of Kent and Dorothy Broadhead in Concord, NSW.
The big day finally arrived. November 5, 1983, at 7:00am, 2RDJ-FM began transmission in the mono mode. In 1990 a stereo decoder card for the transmitter was purchased, and on May 4th, 1991, 2RDJ-FM began broadcasting in stereo for the first time. A 1 hour program produced by then production co-ordinator Andrew Lambkin (now a teacher at Westfield Sports High School in Fairfield West, NSW) was then broadcast during Party Time, a request show hosted by Frank Iuston and Garin Down until 1996. Along with his Party Time duties, Garin Down also hosted a half hour weekly program under the banner of Retrospective, a documentary on rock artists. These specials were also produced by Frank Iuston in addition to his on-air roles and other production duties. Garin Down left Party Time and 2RDJ at the end of 1995, leaving Frank Iuston to continue the program until May 1996. It proved to be the most successful saturday night program and certainly the longest in the station's history, having completed 335 programs. Selected airchecks of this program still exist, as does the bulk of Retrospective.
The morning of November 5 2003 saw 2RDJ-FM celebrate 20 years on air, and to commemorate this event, two half hour specials and forty sixty-second on air "stings" were produced by Frank Iuston, with help from Tim Stackpool and many others who supplied tapes of old programs. At this time, most of the programs broadcast by 2RDJ just simply did not exist in the 2RDJ tape library - but a few weeks later, word was around that specials were to be broadcast, and 2RDJ's production guy at the time, Frank Iuston, then set about the mammoth task of remastering the old programs and bringing them up to today's broadcast standard. After 6 months of remastering, editing and compilation of the programs, they were then ready for broadcast. Today, Frank now has his own website in the form of a blog, under the banner of "The Frankster Archives Library", which can be found at http://frankster.zanyspace.com , and is always on the lookout for old radio material (promos, commercials and the like).
In the 1990's, 2RDJ carried a wide variety of members, some of which have now gone on to commercial radio. Examples include Derek Peterson (now afternoons newsreader for Sydney's 2UE), Jamelle Wells now with ABC Newsradio, and Trevor Farrugia, now in promotions for Sydney's 2GB.
[edit] External links
- 2RDJ-FM Website
- Jase On RDJ Radio Programme
- The Andrew Beale Show
- The Frankster Archives Library - owned and operated by 2RDJ's Frank Iuston
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