Radio
Notable Australian reggae radio programs of the past include Splashdown and The Pounding System. Australia's longest running reggae radio show is Jamdown Vershun which has been broadcasting on 92.1 FM in Perth with selector General Justice since July 1979. The Jamaican singer, producer, and broadcaster Mikey Dread produced and presented a reggae radio special for 2JJJ in the mid to late 1980s. In Melbourne, the PBS 106.7FM program "Chant Down Babylon" has been presented by Jesse I since the late 1990s.
Foreigndub run a weekly radio show in Sydney on 94.5FM - FBI radio every Sunday from 5-7 pm called 'Foreigndub Airwayvs'. They have been broadcasting the show since 2010. Streaming worldwide from http://www.fbiradio.com
Every Saturday afternoon, 4ZZZ has The Yard, a Reggae show from 2-4pm.
Every Wednesday Morning 12am -2am www.fresh927.com.au a community station based in Adelaide has a reggae dancehall show called Dancehall & Ting which has aired since July 2012 and is hosted by DJ Ragz.
In 2013 An online radio station called Australia Reggae Radio which plays 24 hour Reggae and Dancehall music 7 days a week run by a former Jamaican music executive called Zare Demus
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Famous quotes containing the word radio:
“A bibulation of sports writers, a yammer of radio announcers, a guilt of umpires, an indigence of writers.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“There was a girl who was running the traffic desk, and there was a woman who was on the overnight for radio as a producer, and my desk assistant was a woman. So when the world came to an end, we took over.”
—Marya McLaughlin, U.S. television newswoman. As quoted in Women in Television News, ch. 3, by Judith S. Gelfman (1976)
“from above, thin squeaks of radio static,
The captured fume of space foams in our ears—”
—Hart Crane (1899–1932)