4BH
4BH broadcasts from its Cannon Hill headquarters, and is the sister station of 4BC. 4BH (transmitting from Bald Hills) was opened by J. S. Kerr on 2 January 1932. [2]
Cannon Hill is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east of the CBD, and borders Carina, Morningside, Murarrie, and Tingalpa.
4BC is a radio station in Brisbane, Queensland on 1116kHz AM. 4BC is Brisbane's only commercial talkback station and uses the promotional phrase "News Talk 1116". The station's broadcasting facility is at Cannon Hill, and its tower is alongside the Gateway Motorway in Nudgee.
Bald Hills is the northernmost suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. At the 2016 census the suburb recorded a population of 6,502.
During the 1960s, 4BH dominated Brisbane radio and, under the management of Norm Llewellyn, promoted itself as "Top Dog Radio" with a contemporary Top 40 music format. In the 1950s and 1960s George Lovejoy provided commentary on Brisbane rugby league matches for the station and replaced Llewellyn as General Manager. During the Lovejoy years, the station was branded a "Happy Day Radio". Lovejoy was replaced in 1975 by Warren Stagg. Some of the announcers of the time were Ben Beckinsale, Russ Walkington, Ken Guy, Peter Kay, John Flemming, Jimmy White, and John Kerr. With the emergence of 4IP into the marketplace with a similar Top 40 format, 4BH added talkback programmes led by Ivor Hancock and supported by a well known lineup including, Don Seccombe, Babette Stephens, Gabby Horan, Peter Clark, Jim Iliffe, Owen Delaney, Father Stephen Freshwater, Jennifer Blocksidge and Pat Thompson. Bob Ackery joined the station in the early 1970s and became the "drive time" announcer before moving into the "breakfast" slot, later taking on the role of Programme Manager and eventually General Manager in the late 80s. He took over from Barry Augustus, who led the station through one of its most successful periods through the late 70s and 1980s. This included a frequency change from 1390 kHz to 880 kHz in the mid 1970s and from 880 kHz to 882 kHz on 23 November 1978, a relocation of the Transmitter from Bald Hills to Wynnum West and a move from its old Adelaide Street home to purpose built studios at Astor Terrace Spring Hill.
George Lovejoy was an Australian radio sports commentator who is known for his broadcasts of Queensland rugby league football matches in the 1950s and 1960s. He called rugby league for 19 years – 652 games straight – and coined the phrase 'the greatest game of all'.
Rugby league is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field. One of the two codes of rugby, it originated in Northern England in 1895 as a split from the Rugby Football Union over the issue of payments to players. Its rules progressively changed with the aim of producing a faster, more entertaining game for spectators.
In 1988, the station was sold to a local consortium.
In 1975, 4BH started broadcasting "Beautiful Music", which became their focus except for a period in 1994 when the station converted to talk which was up against 4BH's now sister station 4BC and 612 4QR Brisbane. The station successfully bid for an FM license (conversion) in 1990 but was unable to afford the conversion. 4KQ was the second-highest bidder but also failed to produce the required money. In 1995, after the disastrous Talk format experiment, 4BH was placed in receivership and bought for just over $2 million by Michael Norris who was a Brisbane businessman and the major shareholder of Unitel and the Ipswich and West Moreton Broadcasting Corp. 4BH was relocated from Spring Hill to shared studios at the 106.9 QFM building in North Ipswich (now River 94.9).
Spring Hill is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of the central business district. Parts of Spring Hill can be considered to be extensions of the Brisbane CBD.
North Ipswich is a suburb of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. At the 2011 census the suburb recorded a population of 4,587.
River 94.9 is a commercial radio station that broadcasts to South-East Queensland. The station opened in February 1990, and was formerly known as Star 106.9, which used to operate on the frequency now occupied by Nova 106.9. The station was previously owned by Rural Press & Bundaberg Broadcasters, forming part of the Star Broadcasting Network.
Between 1995 and 1997, 4BH returned to the top two ratings position. In January 1997 Michael Norris sold 4BH to the Australian Radio Network (owners of 4KQ) for over $11.5 million, who owned 4BH until January 2002 after ARN and DMG Radio Australia jointly launched 97.3 FM, so ARN sold 4BH to DMG and in February 2003, 4BH was sold yet again to Southern Cross Broadcasting because DMG had won an auction to set up an FM service on the Sunshine Coast. [3] [4] [5]
The Australian Radio Network is a group of commercial radio stations around Australia. It includes the Pure Gold, KIIS Network, The Edge and iHeartRadio brands.
97.3fm is a commercial radio station in Brisbane, Australia. It is a 50/50 joint venture between NOVA Entertainment and the Australian Radio Network, who jointly purchased the license at auction for $67M.
Southern Cross Broadcasting (Australia) Limited was a diversified Australian media company, that owned and operated a variety of media businesses, primarily radio and television.
In August 2002, the station's transmitting antenna in Wynnum West was felled by vandals, causing the station to go off air. [6] The station returned to air a few days later on low power. Two teenagers were eventually charged and pleaded guilty. [7] It later emerged that the reason for the attack was due to a dislike of the transmitter site and also of the station's music. [8]
In radio engineering, an antenna is the interface between radio waves propagating through space and electric currents moving in metal conductors, used with a transmitter or receiver. In transmission, a radio transmitter supplies an electric current to the antenna's terminals, and the antenna radiates the energy from the current as electromagnetic waves. In reception, an antenna intercepts some of the power of a radio wave in order to produce an electric current at its terminals, that is applied to a receiver to be amplified. Antennas are essential components of all radio equipment.
Wynnum West is an outer suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) east of the CBD. Originally part of surrounding suburbs, Wynnum West was gazetted in 1975 as a separate suburb.
In 2004 the station moved from to new purpose built premises at Cannon Hill in 2004. [9]
Since November 2007, 4BH, and all Southern Cross Broadcasting radio stations, has been owned by Fairfax Media.
