WMTR 1250kHz Morristown, NJ, USA. 50's, 60's and 70's music.Of course its signal will not get to Australia, but you could stream them. WMTR's website

There's also one in Vancouver I believe, associated with the radio museum there. Visited the museum about 14 years back.

https://sparcradio.ca/radio-matters/internet-radio-broadcasts/

Reminded me, Bob Rogers is in his mid-90s. Still working!

I thought that Bob Rogers called it a day after suffering a stroke last year?

Can anyone confirm if John Laws is calling it a day on 2SM or is Nine Entertainment going to poach him for 2UE if they decide to change formats back to an Talk-back station as they once were before they changed to an Lifestyle then an all sports format?

So, I decided to try listening to 2CA in the car, rather than at home. It's quite audible, but not very loud, but a stronger religious station wipes it out from time to time. Still, the music is not bad, not many ads either.

So, the list is pretty much unchanged from when this thread was started: 2CH, 2UE, 4BH, Magic 1278, and 2CA.

Found out the name of the useless station that wipes out 2CA. It's called Vision Christian Radio, and it has hundreds of low-power transmitters across the country (how can they afford it?).

The transmitter on 1053 is located in Brisbane on the 4RPH tower with a power of 500 Watts.

Bob Rogers is still in the game but has scaled back to Saturday nights. I haven't listened to daytime radio for a few years now but used to look forward to his 9AM shows playing the 30s and 40s, which came through on the AWA Radiolette I used to have in my office at my last job.

Sometimes people would comment on the old music. My reply would be, "it's an old radio, what do you expect?".

Heard this on the car radio while driving back from the local shops: 1323 Classic Hits (seems to be in Adelaide),

Classic Hits

Ah, puts me in mind of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcUv77UfN2o

That was a great station in its day. Always on in my car.

Ah yes 2UW. Sounded great in AM stereo too. The day they went to FM was the day I gave them up.

The day 2UW shifted to FM was the day that station died. It went from purgatory to hell when Kyle Sandilands was hired by them.

For those that are unaware, 2UW is known as KIIS 106.5 now and they have plenty of revenue to spend on idiots.

I remember that ad too. It was on for a few years.

AM is dead and buried now !!! Its all over, unless you like sport shows or dull talk back .

Streaming is the only way to go. I'm happy to stream into my Radiograms .It's far better as I have the option to listen to Music way out of my area .I guess the only thing I miss really is turning the Dial ,But I dont miss constantly turning the dial in the hope of finding a station thats playing music .

Pete

Before the Nine Network bought up 2GB I would have disagreed but now...

As much as I don't mind Ben Fordham, a shock jock he will never be. Alan Jones had nearly 20% of the audience share for a good reason. Breakfast radio needs someone who tells it like it is, not asks others what they think.

In Sydney 2CH is still hanging in there "2CH = Classic Hits".
Plays 50's to 90's stuff pretty much continually.
That is ok because after 2000 most music is synth crap.
I just laugh at the rubbish called modern music.

Most playable melodies were written by the 1920's.
1930's to 1980's songs are just re-warmed melodies from the masters with different lyrics stuffed in.
Lennon was correct, saying along the line of "there is only so many notes, and anything that sounds good has already been written" or something to that effect. And "performers", no we dont have any!
Nowadays the multitrack "wall of sound to impress" plus fire crackers and explosions to divert attention from the crap lyrics seems to be the way to go.
Just think back to that show on English TV when that Susan Boyle performed. The teenage audience were riveted and you could here a pin drop, why?
Because it was the first time most of them had heard an actual real trained and experianced singer do her stuff, without needing fireworks and 50000 watts of sound wall!
Same when I saw a group of teenies attend an actual real live orchestra rehearsal.
They were stunned by the sounds of the different instruments. Most had never heard anything like it with pro musicians doing their stuff and a conductor (Richard Gill?) explaining what it was all about.

I spent enough time in the recording studio as a tech to get a small appreciation of music and what sounds good or commercial.

Fred.

Arr,,, very much matching the topic this old song.

https://youtu.be/SubLzRKYuo4

Fred, something you just said reminds me of the time I asked some work colleagues about thirty years ago now - have we run out of musical combinations for 'pop' music? I reckon song writers would be having a hell of a time keeping each new song perfectly unique so as to avoid the farcical copyright abuse scenario that surfaced some years ago now where it was alleged that "Down Under" by Men At Work contained a derivative work from the child's song "Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree".

When I can, I still listen to 2CH though songs don't come through on transistorised radios that well so I listen to Smooth 95.3 (callsign 2PTV) in the car or if I am in the mood for politics, 2GB.