[IRCA] More Australian Heritage AM Radio - Radio Heritage Media Release

[Geralyn Hollerman <lynnhollerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

For anyone interested:
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Media Release
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.net

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More Australian Heritage AM Radio
7DY Derby and the Queensland Network
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The 7DY Sunpolisher's Club had a membership of '2,900 juveniles'
according to the latest in the popular series of Long Lost Australian
Radio Stars hosted by the Radio Heritage Foundation at
www.radioheritage.net.

For listeners to the 'North Eastern unit of the Tasmanian Coastal
Network' between 1938-1954, Cliff Parish could be heard as the night
announcer, Jean Rainbird in the afternoons and Chas. Saunders 'the
local picture theater proprietor' handled the outside broadcasts.

7DY Derby ceased to exist in 1954 yet you can still visit the studios
today, as this new feature about Australian Heritage AM Radio
stations explains.

In another new feature at www.radioheritage.net, the Queensland
Network was reaching 700,000 people of the state's total population
of 1 million in the mid-1940's.

Centered on 4BC Brisbane with its 'powerful country relay station'
4SB at Kingaroy, the Five Station Queensland Network supplied 'the
best drama, radio serials, music and sport' across the region.

Other stations included in the feature are 4GR Toowoomba, 4RO
Rockhampton and 4MB Maryborough, and you'll enjoy old photos of the
original wooden 4MB tower being taken by horse-drawn cart through
Maryborough, original studio views from 4RO and the very tall radio
tower of 4BC at Indooroopilly as well as some sophisticated coverage
maps from the era.

These two new releases bring to thirty the number of features
currently included in the Long Lost Australian Radio Stars series at
www.radioheritage.net, now easily found by looking for the 'It's
Always Showtime at 2CH' color image on every page.

If you have your own memories, memorabilia and more you'd like to
share about 7DY Derby or any of the other stations featured, the
Radio Heritage Foundation wants to hear from you. Help us protect and
promote Australia's radio heritage today.

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Lynn.
Lafayette, LA
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