THE Border’s writer guru Peter Batson gives the low-down on this week’s radio highlights.
ONLINE
BREAKFAST WITH DON PLENTY
6AM TO 9AM WEEKDAYS
2AY2
2AY.COM.AU
Tune into the silky tones of brekkie announcer Don Plenty on 2AY2, Albury-Wodonga’s newest radio station. 1494 2AY’s six-week-old, online-only sister station is gradually building an appreciative audience with its “easy listening favourites from yesterday and today”. Think Katy Perry, Spandau Ballet, Adele, Burdon and the Animals, the Beach Boys and (gulp!) Barry Manilow plus national and local news and information. Born and raised in Victoria, Plenty has worked on radio in Port Augusta and Adelaide with a decade-long stint in Dubai. The experienced Horsham-based Ace Radio host has a passion for music and the Hawthorn Football Club. Speaking of football, if you’re not into 2AY’s weekend aerial ping-pong commentary, 2AY2 provides a welcome choice for those (particularly over-35s) with a yen for non-head-banging music. And when digital radio eventually arrives on the Border, 2AY2 will, no doubt, be one of the first digital stations to hit the digital airwaves. Meanwhile, tune in at 2ay.com.au.
ON AIR
RARE AND RUSSIAN
8PM FRIDAY, AUGUST 3
ABC CLASSIC FM
The Goldner String Quartet together with a cohort of Australia's top solo classical music artists deliver a mellifluous program of rare and Russian music, in this concert from the 2012 Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville. Enjoy this concert from the 2012 Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville and revel in the passionate music of Mozart, Westlake, Prokofiev and Arensky played by the Goldner String Quartet and a host of amazing soloists. In the first half of the program hear Mozart's serious Piano Quartet in G minor K478 followed by Nigel Westlake's Rare Sugar. After interval enjoy the Sonata No 2 in D for flute and piano, op 94 by Serge Prokofiev and Anton Arensky's Piano Quintet in D, Op 51.
DOWNLOAD
SATURDAY EXTRA: JULIAN FELLOWES
ABC RADIO NATIONAL
abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/
The Christmas special of Downton Abbey has just aired on Australian television with the show a huge hit here and in Britain where it is the most successful costume drama since the 1981 series Brideshead Revisited. Downton Abbey is the fictional Yorkshire estateof the Earl and Countess of Grantham. Meet Julian Fellowes, the creator of the show which follows the lives of the aristocratic family and their servants during the reign of King George V.
ON AIR
MEN’S ATHLETICS 100 METRES FINAL
6.50AM SUNDAY, AUGUST 5
ABC GOULBURN MURRAY
Will Usain Bolt retain the title of the world’s fastest man? Find out as the Jamaican superstar lines up in the blue riband event of the London Olympic Games — the men’s athletics 100m final. The pressure will also be on ABC veteran commentator David Morrow as he prepares to call, in just under 10 seconds, this remarkable race.
ON AIR
MOVIETIME
2.05PM SUNDAY, AUGUST 5
ABC RADIO NATIONAL
It's been a great year for Deborah Mailman with a standing ovation for The Sapphires movie at May’s Cannes Film Festival, a lead role in the recent ABC TV telemovie Mabo and a big role in PJ Hogan's new Australian comedy Mental. Meet her on Movietime this week, in conversation with Julie Rigg.
REGIONAL FREQUENCIES
ALBURY-WODONGA
ABC CLASSIC FM 104.1 FM
ABC GOULBURN MURRAY 106.5 FM
ABC NEWSRADIO 100.9 FM
ABC RADIO NATIONAL 990 AM
2AY 1494 AM
KIDS FM 88.0 FM
RAW FM 87.6 FM
2REM 107.3 FM
SBS RADIO NATIONAL 89.5 FM
SKY SPORTS RADIO 99.3 FM
STAR FM 104.9 FM
THE LIGHT 98.5 FM
THE RIVER 105.7 FM
TRIPLE J 101.3 FM
VISION AUSTRALIA RADIO 101.7 FM
WODONGA TAFE RADIO 87.8 FM
WANGARATTA
ABC RADIO NATIONAL 756AM
3NE 1566 AM
OAK FM 101.3 FM
ORBIT 87.6 FM
RSN 99.3 FM
THE EDGE 102.1 FM
VISION RADIO NETWORK 87.8 FM
OTHER CENTRES
BEECHWORTH
INDIGO FM 88.0 FM
BENALLA
KIDS FM 99.3 FM
BERRIGAN
COUNTRY RADIO 104.5 FM
SKY SPORTS RADIO 87.6 FM
BRIGHT
ALPINE RADIO 92.9 FM
THE EDGE 92.1 FM
VALLEY FM 87.9FM
COBRAM
CLASSIC ROCK 88.5 FM
CHILTERN
VISION RADIO NETWORK 88.0 FM
COROWA
ABC RIVERINA 675 AM
COROWA FM 87.6 FM
SBS RADIO NATIONAL 90.9 FM
SKY SPORTS RADIO 94.9 FM
CORRYONG
ABC GOULBURN MURRAY 99.7 FM
ABC RADIO NATIONAL 98.1 FM
RADIO UPPER MURRAY 98.9 FM
STAR FM 95.7 FM
THE RIVER 96.5 FM
CULCAIRN
SKY SPORTS RADIO 92.5 FM
DENILIQUIN
ABC NEWSRADIO 100.9 FM
ABC RADIO NATIONAL 99.3 FM
CLASSIC ROCK 102.5 FM
COUNTRY RADIO 106.1 FM
2QN 1521 AM
SKY SPORTS RADIO 88.0 FM
VISION RADIO NETWORK 87.6 FM
FALLS CREEK
STAR FM 90.5 FM
THE RIVER 91.3 FM
FINLEY
COUNTRY RADIO 104.5 FM
HENTY
VISION RADIO NETWORK 87.6 FM
HOLBROOK
2GHR 96.7 FM
SBS RADIO NATIONAL 93.7 FM
SKY SPORTS RADIO 99.3 FM
VISION RADIO NETWORK 87.6 FM
JERILDERIE
ABC RADIO NATIONAL 94.1 FM
COUNTRY RADIO 94.9 FM
SBS RADIO NATIONAL 91.7 FM
SKY SPORTS RADIO 87.6 FM
KHANCOBAN
ABC CLASSIC FM 91.3 FM
ABC RADIO NATIONAL 91.3 FM
ABC RIVERINA 89.7 FM
MOUNT BEAUTY
ALPINE RADIO 96.5 FM
3NE 90.1 FM
THE EDGE 92.1 FM
MOUNT BUFFALO
3NE 99.1 FM
MOUNT HOTHAM
3NE 89.3
MULWALA
SKY SPORTS RADIO 92.5 FM
MYRTLEFORD
ABC GOULBURN MURRAY 91.7 FM
MYRTLEFORD RADIO 87.6 FM
SBS RADIO NATIONAL 97.3 FM
RUTHERGLEN
INDIGO FM 88.0
WALWA
RADIO UPPER MURRAY 88.7 FM
YACKANDANDAH
INDIGO FM 87.6 FM
YARRAWONGA
VISION RADIO NETWORK 87.6 FM
RADIO ON DIGITAL TV
ABC DIG MUSIC Channel 200
ABC JAZZ Channel 201
SBS RADIO 1 Channel 38
SBS RADIO 2 Channel 39
