{"id":151877,"date":"2025-09-18T10:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151877\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T10:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:41:13","slug":"fun-crazy-times-35-years-since-the-launch-of-coast-rock-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151877\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fun, crazy times.&#8221; 35 years since the launch of Coast Rock FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <a href=\"https:\/\/radiotoday.com.au\/category\/whats-new\/\" class=\"tag color-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s New<\/a> September 18, 2025                                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                                    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-1900.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>This week brings with it an interesting little piece of Australian radio history.\u00a0It\u2019s now 35 years since the launch of Coast Rock FM.<\/p>\n<p>Serving the New South Wales Central Coast, Coast Rock FM was first broadcast from newly-built studios in Mann Street, Gosford.<\/p>\n<p>The on-air line-up included Duncan Campbell, who would go on to become Chief Content Officer at ARN.<\/p>\n<p>Start Me Up by The Rolling Stones was the very first song to go to air.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-133829 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-1899.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"908\" height=\"684\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Mark Johnson was the station\u2019s Music Director and Afternoon announcer<\/p>\n<p>Johnson \u2013 now Content Director at ARN\u2019s Hitz 939 and 4BU Bundaberg \u2013 says \u201cI only stayed at Coast Rock FM about 12 months before moving to KZ FM in Melbourne where we launched Gold 104 \u2013 or Gold 104.3 as it\u2019s called these days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were amazing, fun and crazy times in radio \u2026 mind you, I was only 25!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coast Rock FM operated from Gosford until it was sold and eventually rebranded.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996, Coast Rock FM changed its name to Sea FM and today is known as SCA\u2019s Hit101.3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New September 18, 2025 This week brings with it an interesting little piece of Australian radio history.\u00a0It\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-151877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}