3XY memories
Mots
the 'Real XY'
Shirl and Irvine in the evenings.....'Problems??...... 11 5
15'.......XY Zoo....Rob Elliot's Boogey Check........3XY
football........Rock in AM stereo....and the last 2 years from Geelong,
programming wise that is.
On The Wireless
start of the season they ran ads in the Herald Sun pointing to the fact the
Eddie McGuire was going to be a part of the team... of course the station
went up ass-up couldn't afford to do the footy and as a result Eddie didn't
make it to XY... but he did do a Sat morn show and call a few matches on
3EE.. XY's reincarnation.
XY's final line-up
6-10 Mike Ryan
10-2 Roxanne Bennett
2-6 Dave Gibney
6-10 Ken Lane
News - Rick Wall
(where are all these guys now? I know Rick's on Vega)
weekends 6pm-12am Brendan Barnes.
Andrew Bayley
"Mots" <867530...@operamail.com> wrote in message
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and if you had something you wanted to get on your soapbox about and tell
all of Melbourne, call up the 3XY Input Line... or if you were a troubled
teen there was Rev Tom Stokes to talk to on a Sunday night... there was
breakfast with the XY ZOO and Richard Stubbs, Peter O'Callaghan & Jane
Holmes. And the 3XY Stereo Skyshow on Albert Park Lake on the Australia Day
weekend. Wasn't there also The Rocky Horror Radio Show after 10pm at some
stage as well?? Newsreaders I remember there were Colin Denovan (now on
774) and Rick Wall (now at Vega). XY's telephone number was 329 1411, which
probably matched their street address (411 King Street) more than their
frequency, 1422!
they were great days with "Hot Hits 3XY"... i got onto XY rather late in its
life, about 1985, and apart from the year of XY Easy Rock (1989), stayed
with them until the transmitter was finally switched off in 1991.
Mech Minx
On The Wireless
No but it was easier for AWA to close it down and start from scratch with
EE. Not that they had success!
They bought a radio station which had lost its identy in Melbourne. It had
been run into the ground by it's previous 2 owners and I guess rather than
put it through another format change they thought it'd better to let the old
girl die with some dignity.
I remember doing work experience at Bay-FM just months after XY had been
moved out of the old distillary. I went out the back room one day and there
was a pile of logs, carts, photo's in frames, stickers, reel to reels,
cassettes all just dumped in a heap covered in dust. It was sad to see a
great radio station end up like that.
The station may be gone, but as they say - the memories live on!
*I remember my brother going into the city with his gheto blaster for a 3XY
skyshow... those were the days.
Soapbox
interest in tackling the FMer's. It could have been done. 4KQ do pretty
well in Brisbane, as does Magic in Melbourne, so an AM music station CAN
take it right up to the FM 'big guns', if it's done properly.
And if the stuff shirts at the (then) ABA had any sense of history, heritage
and culture, they would've mothballed the 3XY call sign for all time. Don't
get me wrong, I'm not anti greek, or any nationality for that matter. Shit,
I grew up in Melbourne (and a fair amount of my diet was 3XY!), so there
ain't a racist bone in my body. But I think they should've preserved the
3XY callsign as a classic, important part of Australian radio history.
Soapbox
Brissy
"Mech Minx" <mech...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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CrowdedHouse
Soapbox wrote:
> No. Unfortunately, the owners either didn't have the cash, resources or
> interest in tackling the FMer's. It could have been done. 4KQ do pretty
> well in Brisbane, as does Magic in Melbourne, so an AM music station CAN
> take it right up to the FM 'big guns', if it's done properly.
>
> And if the stuff shirts at the (then) ABA had any sense of history, heritage
> and culture, they would've mothballed the 3XY call sign for all time. Don't
> get me wrong, I'm not anti greek, or any nationality for that matter. Shit,
> I grew up in Melbourne (and a fair amount of my diet was 3XY!), so there
> ain't a racist bone in my body. But I think they should've preserved the
> 3XY callsign as a classic, important part of Australian radio history.
>
> Soapbox
> Brissy
Well, Vega FM has failed... how about DMG splurge some more $$$, ask to
buy the 3XY name from the greeks and relaunch 91.5 FM as "3XY-FM"
Classic Rock?
Highly unlikely, but we can only dream :)
CrowdedHouse (why the bloody hell not)
Mots
Mots
get in contact.....i had it on DAT....... i yoinked it from BayFM in
1995........but the DAT has since been 're-yoinked'.
''Bringing it all back to you......3XY.....1422''
(Cried shitloads when 3XY bit the dust in '91.....Mal Walden's report
on the death of 3XY on 10 news that night was heartbreaking to a
3XY-aholic)
Andrew Bayley
> If anyone has '3XY....the final hour' with Glenn A Baker.......please
> get in contact.....i had it on DAT....... i yoinked it from BayFM in
> 1995........but the DAT has since been 're-yoinked'.
i had cassette tapes of both the last hour of "normal" broadcast (Roxanne
Bennett and Laurie Atlas, 11am to midday) and "The Final Hour" (Glenn A
Baker, midday to 1pm). The first tape somehow got lost when moving house,
the second tape i may still have here... if i can find it i'll let you know
Mots
Andrew Bayley
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as much as i loved the old 3XY, and am sorry to see the name "wasted" on a
station that doesn't justify it, I don't think bringing it back as a
commercial identity is a good thing. Remember the name and the great
station for what it was, and leave it at that because no reincarnation of XY
will be able to match people's expectations.
Swamp Donkey
> 3XY was supposed to broadcast footy in it's final year - just before the
> start of the season they ran ads in the Herald Sun pointing to the fact the
> Eddie McGuire was going to be a part of the team... of course the station
> went up ass-up couldn't afford to do the footy and as a result Eddie didn't
> make it to XY... but he did do a Sat morn show and call a few matches on
> 3EE.. XY's reincarnation.
>
> XY's final line-up
>
> 6-10 Mike Ryan
> 10-2 Roxanne Bennett
> 2-6 Dave Gibney
Gibbo was pretty much running Hit-Country in Geelong up until their
demise late last year.
> 6-10 Ken Lane
Last time I saw Ken was a few years ago when he was doing the Tuesday
morning show on the Pulse. I used to record his interviews for him in
Studio 3. Top bloke. Always got a laugh out of him. Not sure where he
is now.
Harold
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I was lucky enough to score a couple of shifts on the Geelong-based 3XY -
albeit doing news. Working at XY was a long-held dream of mine. It also
added to my tally of stations I've worked at.
Anyway, what I want to know is ... where's Mike Ryan now?
And speaking of Geelong (and possibly OT for this thread) does anybody
know where Roger Kent went to? I lost track of him when he was working in
Geelong. (I don't even remember which station it was.)
Mots
Mobbs will correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't think he (Kent) made
the switch to K-Rock.
On The Wireless
>
> Mobbs will correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't think he (Kent) made
> the switch to K-Rock.
He was doing breaky on BAY-FM when it went "Easy" in '91 until Laurie Atlas
took over the shift.. he was then moved into promotions... but I think he
left about a year later??
Mobbs
has been for a while now
great guy btw
Mobbs
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Artie Stevens
KZ Christmas party - good job one of us was sober enough to cope...guess
which bunny!
Artie
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Mots
Bayfm/3XYer........where is he now??.......still overseas??
No wonder Bay/XY went bust tho, just to look at the set-up they had at
Northshore.......must have cost them shitloads!!
Nice set-up it was tho, Ray 'the rentman' Peters was a funny bugga,
former Bay/XY production guy....where is he nowdays??
Didn't the Ace radio network buy Bayfm at one stage in 1992??......then
sold it to K-Rock??
CrowdedHouse
>sold it to K-Rock??
Was that at the same 3CS had some programming coming out of Geelong?
CrowdedHouse (Mots should name the lowlife that took his 3XY DAT Tapes)
Mots
was, in 1995 anyways, when someone i know was working at 3CS:
Local 'Snooze' with Dan Lonergan......and some stuff for the Thursday
night footy show(Geoff Peel and GDFL stuff)
Before that, Denis Scanlon came out Geelong as well, then, when he got
the ass for 'Live across Victoria' with Geoff Fisher, LAV, and 90% of
the CS content, came from 3WM.
Mots
from radiotattler made one, but it died right??
radiohead
content around to put something back together. Still have some of the
audio although the fool who hit delete on all the files has never lived
it down. I haven't!
Brendan
www.radiotattler.com
Seagull
I shouldn't do this.
I haven't read any of the above messages.
I never liked the station in its prime.
I thought it just cashed in on all the good stations which had done the
hard yards.
I hated the way the announcers were encouraged to say Free Ex Woy.
But ... I totally agreed with the name others in the industry got to
call it at the time.
"Me Too 3XY"
It said it all.
Apologies to Andrew Bailey et al who loved it for one reason or
another.
So tell us .. you older now Free Ex Woy fans.
Now that you've grown up ... What do you think of Vega???
radiohead
Andrew Bayley
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>
> I shouldn't do this.
>
> I haven't read any of the above messages.
>
> I never liked the station in its prime.
> I thought it just cashed in on all the good stations which had done the
> hard yards.
perhaps because I wasn't around at the time, but can you explain this? From
what I gather, 3XY's success in the 1970s was initially due to 3AK handing
over its top 40 audience on a platter when it went to Beautiful Music and XY
went with it, largely unchallenged until the 1980's, and built the audience
in the meantime. In fact, history says that stations like 3DB tried to
"cash in" on XY's efforts.
But also, I believe that 3XY had plenty of lean times before the 1970's, so
in their way they had done their own "hard yards" before their time in the
sun.
> I hated the way the announcers were encouraged to say Free Ex Woy.
>
> But ... I totally agreed with the name others in the industry got to
> call it at the time.
>
> "Me Too 3XY"
>
> It said it all.
>
> Apologies to Andrew Bailey et al who loved it for one reason or
> another.
oh well we're all entitled to an opinion :)
> So tell us .. you older now Free Ex Woy fans.
>
> Now that you've grown up ... What do you think of Vega???
while I'm technically not within Vega's primary demographic i think the
concept of a wide playlist is a good one, and as much as Vega is copping a
lot on this NG, I think they should be credited for at least doing something
different. They could have easily gone down the same road as virtually
every other commercial FM and gone with a limited playlist, and consequently
be labelled "predictable" and "boring". That's not to say the music mix on
Vega is perfect because it isn't, it needs a lot of work and perhaps is a
little bit "too wide" but the concept I think is commendable even though in
the short term at least it's not going to pay the bills.
Andrew Bayley
> It's a shame there aint any XY tribute sites on the net, AFAIK Brendan
> from radiotattler made one, but it died right??
there was also the Jingle Shrine which was started as a tribute to XY but
expanded to cover many other stations. The site is now archived at
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/39735/20040108/jingleshrine.htm
Paul Nicholson
it was a mish mash of "National First 50 Albums", greyhound racing with
"continental" and religious programs thrown in for good measure.
The "Greater" 3UZ was the dominant hit music station but 3KZ with its "sound
survey" always did well. 3AK played Top 40 music too but was hampered by the
restricted (daytime) broadcasting hours until 1968. It became a "heavier"
sound ["No Wrinklys Fly"] until it suddenly changed to Beautiful Music in
1973.
The New Year just passed marked the 20th anniversary of the end of the
Beautiful Music format on 3AK and its subsequent downfall that has been well
documented on this group.
3XY was the dominant hit music station through the 1970s until it was
trounced by FM in the early 1980s.
All covered in Wayne Mac's book!
Paul in Melbourne
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