The Vault

Pop Quiz Hotshots
For some reason, some events over the past few days reminded us of a certain song.  So a Pop Quiz. Hearing the song below, in particular from about the 4-second mark – what does it ...
And the Logie goes to…..
You gotta love when radio people do regional TV ads. Enter – Triple M's Dangerous Dave Williams: "Me showing the acting industry how it's done…haha about 1995. Good head for Radio" ...
Remember when this happened?
There are some moments in radio that are destined to be recalled as pivotal to the industry.  Today, we place into the Radio Today vault a memo from 1995 that was announcing such a moment. ...
Nothing beats Joy, except radio
Guest contributor Jim Mortimer delves into the Vault…. Having recently enjoyed Pat Morrish’s stories about her work at the ABC in Cairns, I was reminded of another time in the deep ...
The Vault: 3XY, and a horse
For whatever reason, there seems to be plenty of 3XY Melbourne material to place into 'The Vault'. We posted some great announcer-specific jingles earlier – including one about Radio ...
The Vault: 2WL Wollongong
From 'The Vault' comes this story from Wollongong in 1980; the full story, or at least the details that are known, can be seen here. 2WL, now known as Wave FM, was an iconic radio brand in the ...
The Vault: 3XY Rocks Melbourne
Jingles are somewhat of a rarity on radio stations these days, but in the 70s they were all the rage. And 3XY got right in on the act, have a listen to these beauties from 'the vault' featuring a ...
SAFM back in the day
Here is a ripper pic from 'The Vault' from SAFM in the early 90's.  Pictured are: Dave Cameron, Adam Hills, Jason 'Snowy' Carter, Toni Tenaglia, Jason Staveley and Sean Craig Murphy at ...
Thunders behaving badly
Some amusing photos from The Vault today. These shots were taken in 1993 on a beach at Kurnell in Sydney, when the promotions staff clearly decided they needed more excitement in their day than ...
Look up!
From the Vault, here's a couple of innocuous photos that actually reference a significant time in Australian radio. Both are from the internal roof of the Nova 100 programming area in Melbourne. ...
2day FM #1 – another pic!
Following on from our photo earlier in the week of the day 2Day FM Sydney went number one for the first time ever (here), here's another pic from the same day. In this shot is Bob Scott, Paul ...