Well, That completely sux doesn't it!!
This world is not short of sports stations.
One of the last music stations left too

See news
Link Pete

https://www.radiotoday.com.au/2ch-becomes-sen-sydney/

'Crocmedia' is aptly named.

Yesterday or maybe the day before?
It had a new DJ and he sounded about 15.
It's such a shame that music must be abandoned and replaced with more brain dead sports channels.
These days I mostly listen to Totally 60s Radio Canberra or 2ca and all I can hope for is that 2ca does not do the same thing as 2ch.
I've been listening to 2ch for as long as I can remember.!!!!
Well I hope the ass falls out of the ratings and they go bust!!
Pete

Looks like I need to dust off all the tapes I have of 60's music and pipe them through the AM modulator I made!

Vale 1170.

Fred.

Another one bites the dust. I wish Singo still owned 2GB and 2CH.

That'll pretty much do it for me. I nearly ditched 2CH when they went for a few months under the ident Magic and only stayed because someone saw the ineptitude of the change and decided to revert to 2CH.

Christ only knows what I will listen to now when I am playing one of my radios.

I am currently listening to 2CH here at work via iHeart Radio on a Bluetooth radio.

Back in the day I could of listened to it in Melbourne at night on a real radio with an RF stage. No so these days - too much crud from switch mode power supplies, etc.

2026 hrs: l know a place - Petula Clark.

I note Brad's comment below that story at 7.49pm.

I also see a comment by Peter at 19 Aug 2020 - 8:11 pm ...

QUOTE: For those worried about 2CH I have emailed the station and they have advised it will be continuing in DAB, the web and the 2CH app

GTC .
?? They will DAB the old format ??? How is this going to work?? Must going to DAB in the new format ??

Pete: from what I can gather, 1170 AM will become sport 24/7.

The existing 2CH format will be broadcast via DAB, etc. Beats me how that works given that they say the current CH format loses $2 million a year.

Can't figure it out at all. I think we don't yet have the full story.

GTC ...
Hell will freeze over before I tune into sport ! This will upset many people because 2ch has a following for years and has not been about sport ..

It made me think day of how long I have I have been listening to AM staions ,,Well my first radio was a Crystal Set I swapped a turtle for it with the Kid up the road when I was a young boy ! Crystal sets were way out of Date when I was a boy in the 70s ,,I had never seen one before , I use clip it to the venetian blinds and lay in bed listening to music .. Gosh I even remember Father Jim on sunday nights where kids would phone up and say ,,Father I have this problem , There is this boy/ Girl etc etc LOL !!

By the way ,,, Turtles alway come home ! so I got the Crystal set and the Turtle !! ..

Pete

It looks like I may be kicking my AM transmitter in the guts again and pipe music from the laptop through it. I might 'remake' it with a power supply though instead of depending on ever more expensive batteries.

I might 'remake' it with a power supply though instead of depending on ever more expensive batteries.

I have that model, too, however I purchased the power supply option with it at the time.

Turtles always come home

I did not know that. Had to look it up.

I had a crystal set in 1963. It was a birthday present. Bought at Hobbyco for (IIRC) 10 bob. First thing I heard on it was The Beatles. I used to like listening to the radio serials. Back them there were plenty of them on 2UW.

I've never seen again the particular model that I owned. Other guys at the time mainly had the rocket ship type,

https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/91197961179718240/

... which I thought was great, but I was happy to have a radio.

Yes , There was an old fish pound in the yard in Ryde dad had built and also a huge flat water tank about 3 feet high and the Turtle lived in there,, We had him for years until a stay dog got him . I dont Remember where we got him from .... Probably just wandered into the yard .

Pete

GTC,,, yes the Rocket is nice ,, Mine was just a plain one