5AA

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City Adelaide, South Australia
Broadcast area Adelaide RA1
Slogan Talking Adelaide
Frequency 1395 kHz AM (also on DAB+)
First air date 9 March 1976 (1976-03-09) [1]
Format Talkback radio
Language(s) English
Transmitter coordinates 34°45′34″S138°36′26″E / 34.7594°S 138.6072°E / -34.7594; 138.6072 Coordinates: 34°45′34″S138°36′26″E / 34.7594°S 138.6072°E / -34.7594; 138.6072
Callsign meaning 5Adelaide Australia
Owner NOVA Entertainment
Sister stations Nova 91.9
Webcast Listen Live
Website fiveaa.com.au

5AA (identified as FIVEaa), is 50% owned by NOVA Entertainment and Lachlan Murdoch's company Illyra, and is Adelaide's only commercial talkback radio station. The station has a range of programs including news, sports, current affairs, social issues, football calls, gardening, lifestyle, cars, travel and health.

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Adelaide City in South Australia

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Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live conversations between the host and listeners who "call in" to the show. Listener contributions are usually screened by a show's producers in order to maximize audience interest and, in the case of commercial talk radio, to attract advertisers. Generally, the shows are organized into segments, each separated by a pause for advertisements; however, in public or non-commercial radio, music is sometimes played in place of commercials to separate the program segments. Variations of talk radio include conservative talk, hot talk, liberal talk and sports talk.

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History

5AA commenced service in Kent Town on 14 March 1976 [1] on the frequency 1390 kHz. It was moved to 1386 kHz with the introduction of 9 kHz spacing on the AM dial in 1978. The station now broadcasts on 1395 kHz.

5AA commenced its life with a "Beautiful Music" format and quickly became Adelaide's no 1 rating radio station. In 1976, the only FM competition was the ABC owned Classic FM. AM stations were the ABC owned 5AN, 5DN 972 - "Licensed to talk" and music stations 5KA on 1197AM and 5AD on 1323AM.

In the 1980s 5AA was sold to the State Government owned TAB, ditching music to begin broadcasting horse and dog racing, with talkback in between race calls. The station shifted to the TAB headquarters in Pulteney Court, Adelaide, with "Talk of the Town" as its slogan. However, it plummeted in popularity as a result of its schizophrenic broadcasting policy. With the advent of narrowcast licences, the TAB purchased frequency 1539AM and shifted all racing there, freeing up 5AA for talk and interviews.

A new slogan was adopted in the early 1990s, "5AA, Where you don't miss a thing" and the station began a slow rise in the ratings to challenge 5AN (now 891ABC) and the rebadged 5DN, on the 1323AM frequency (now Cruise1323).

On 27 September 1996, 5AA was separated from the TAB and sold by the State Liberal Olsen Government as part of its asset sales program to repay state debt, caused by the $3 billion collapse of the State Bank 5 years earlier. The new owner became dmg Radio Australia, under the local chairmanship of CEO Paul Thompson, with the national headquarters in Adelaide. (In 1980, Thompson established Double-S-A FM (now SAFM) as the first FM commercial radio station in Adelaide, which led to the formation of radio giant Austereo.)

In 2000, another new logo was adopted with the tag, Interactive Radio FIVEaa and in October 2004, the station shifted to new premises in Hindmarsh Square with the launch of NOVA 91.9 FM, also owned by dmg Radio Australia, two months earlier.

In November 2009 dmg sold 50% of its share to Lachlan Murdoch's company Illyria and Paul Thompson became non-executive Chairman for six months, before retiring from a radio career spanning 4 decades and an induction to Radio's Hall of Fame.

Lachlan Murdoch businessman

Lachlan Keith Murdoch is a British-American businessman and mass media heir. He is the executive chairman of Nova Entertainment, executive co-chairman of News Corp and Fox Corporation, the founder of Australian investment company Illyria Pty Ltd, and a director of Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art.

Programmes

Monday - Friday

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Saturday

Other shows include , Sundays with Leith Forrest (often co-hosted by Michaelangelo Rucci, the Chief Sports Writer for Adelaide's daily newspaper The Advertiser ), and Weekends on FIVEaa with various hosts including Andrew Reimer 7 pm till midnight and Brad Aldridge.

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