Radio 97

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Radio 97
Broadcast area Murwillumbah/Tweed Heads/Gold Coast
Frequency 972 kHz AM
BrandingRadio 97
Programming
Language English
Affiliations Super Radio Network
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
1 September 1936 (1936-09-01) [1]
Technical information
Power 5 kW [2]
Transmitter coordinates
 28°19′39″S153°30′29″E / 28.32750°S 153.50806°E / -28.32750; 153.50806 [2]
Translators 103.5 MHz FM
Mullumbimby
104.1 MHz FM
Currumbin
Links
Webcast www.radio97.com.au/radio97.com.au/listen.html
Website www.radio97.com.au/radio97.com.au

2MW, better known as Radio 97, is an Australian radio station serving the Murwillumbah region. It was opened in September 1937. [1] As at 1987, it was owned by Hoyts. [3]

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Controversy

Underpayment of Staff

Radio 97 owners, Broadcast Operations Group, have often been accused of a reluctance to pay experienced staff in order to cut operating costs. [4]

In September 2009, Broadcast Operations Group was found to have underpaid a journalist and has been ordered to make a $10,000 backpayment. The journalist, who was studying communications at a Gold Coast university, worked part-time over a two-year period in the newsroom for Radio 97 was graded as a cadet. The Fair Work Ombudsman found that the Journalist was performing tasks that would normally be given to a Grade 1, Band 1 journalist under the Commercial Radio Journalists Award.

References

  1. 1 2 "Radio Station Opened". Sydney Morning Herald . 6 September 1937. p. 7. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
  2. 1 2 "Radio and television broadcasting stations (Internet edition)" (PDF). Australian Communications & Media Authority. October 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
  3. ↑ Hoyts Media to sell six regional radio stations Australian Financial Review 31 December 1987
  4. ↑ Wilson, Craig (18 February 2009). "Caralis now sacking staff before they start". Media Hunter. Retrieved 16 April 2014.


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