Community radio takes to the internet

Woy Woy resident and RadioYesteryear jazz presenter, 80-year-old Roy Spence can now be heard on the internet on www.radioyesteryear.org.au

He joins other octogenarians, Wal Stone of Radio Five-0-Plus 93.3FM and Mary Macey of 2CCC 96.3FM.

This popular local community radio station was unsuccessful in obtaining a permanent licence, so Radio Yesteryear broadcast over the internet.

The station can now present to Central Coast listeners, as well as a worldwide audience, nostalgia songs and music from the 1930s to the 1960s.

The station plays a mix of ballads, big band, country, popular, comedy, early rock and roll, jazz, and old time radio broadcasts.

There were only three permanent radio licenses issued late last year and five aspirant stations vying for them.

Licences were issued to "Radio Five-0-Plus" and "Hits and Country", while one licence is still undecided.

Radio Yesteryear station motto, explains station manager Bruce Carty, is "More Music - Less Talk. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."

For the past five years Roy Spence has presented a program on Monday and Tuesday evenings from 7pm to 11pm (Sydney time) called OZ You Like It.

The show features Australian bands, musicians and entertainers playing well known Classical Ragtime, Traditional Jazz, Hot Dance Bands of the Roaring Twenties and music of the Swing Era as well as many original Australian jazz compositions.

For requests and information, Radio Yesteryear can be contacted by email on radioyesteryear@integritynet.com.au by phone on 4340-5355 during live broadcast hours, or 4341 7960 in Woy Woy during office hours.

Press release, March 28