Radio 97

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Radio 97
City Murwillumbah
Broadcast area Murwillumbah/Tweed Heads, New South Wales/Gold Coast, Queensland
Frequency 972 kHz AM
BrandingRadio 97
Programming
Language(s) English
Affiliations Super Radio Network
Ownership
Owner Broadcast Operations Group
(Tweed Radio & Broadcasting Co Pty Ltd)
History
First air date
September 1, 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]
Translator(s) 103.5 MHz FM
Mullumbimby, New South Wales
104.1 MHz FM
Currumbin, Queensland
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]

Contents

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. [3]

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 Tweed Heads radio station 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.

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References

  1. 1 2 > "Radio Station Opened". The 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 and Media Authority. October 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
  3. Wilson, Craig (18 February 2009). "Caralis now sacking staff before they start". Media Hunter. Retrieved 16 April 2014.