Media Release Radio Heritage Foundation www.radioheritage.net ____________________________ Australian Heritage AM Radio 2MO Gunnedah Fine Station in Rich District ____________________________
The most popular feature heard on 2MO was the Hillbilly request program on Saturday evenings, with requests from as far distant as Rockhampton and Invercargill [NZ] according to the latest in the popular series of Long Lost Australian Radio Stars hosted by the Radio Heritage Foundation at www.radioheritage.net. The station covered Gunnedah, Curlewis, Carroll, Mullaley, Kelvin, Boggabri, Wee Waa, Somerton and Manilla and the station manager Ernest S Tibbett originally came from the engineering staff at 2TM in Tamworth. Other local personalities heard on 2MO in the 1940's included Neville Pellitt, Doreen Lambert, Ron Gibson, Margery Breen and John Cameron. This new release brings to over thirty the number of such features currently included in the Long Lost Australian Radio Stars series at www.radioheritage.net where an increasing amount of Australian radio heritage can now be found. If you have your own memories, memorabilia and more you'd like to share about 2MO Gunnedah or any of the other stations featured in the series, the Radio Heritage Foundation wants to hear from you. It may be some old photos, booklets, newspaper or magazine articles or even some recordings. Memories or reminiscences of local events and how 2MO has served the community for several generations of listeners are also important. The Radio Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit organization connecting popular culture nostalgia and radio heritage across the Pacific and its website is www.radioheritage.net where full contact details can be found. Email: [email protected]. ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
