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Saving audiovisual history one tape at a time

Browsing Posts published in March, 2023

RIP Mike Drayson

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We’ve lost Mike Drayson overnight folks. Terrible news. News of this started coming through around 9pm-ish but it was unconfirmed then – it didn’t take long for confirmation to also come through though. What an absolute bummer. One of the good blokes of the industry who recently picked up where he left off on 99.3 […]

A bit of a background for this update, and I’m putting these up while I get things together again to be able to present regular updates here once more. This audio forms part of a collection of audio cassettes I acquired in 2012 which had a lot of Melbourne radio throughout. I was looking at […]

An update from me

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G’day folks, An update from me and also as to where this site is heading. The audio and video will come back shortly, I just need to get a few things out of the way first. As I mentioned in a previous update, my sister is going through breast cancer at the moment. She’s seeing […]

Monday saw news published by Radioinfo that Steve Mummery was heading back to SCA in his new role of Content Strategy Manager, based in Perth. To go along with the story I thought it’d be fun to put up a couple of Steve’s airchecks to go along with the story. Both of these are from […]

Well we’re back!

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Well, bit of a surprise really. I wasn’t expecting to be back for a long while, but things have improved. A few things I had to let go of a couple of weeks back, and as some of you may know, one of those was my website and efforts in AV restoration and all. Well […]