A few weeks ago I wrote a little disparagingly about Brisbane’s B105 and Brisbane’s KIIS 97.3 both claiming that they are “Brisbane’s #1 hit music station”, so I found the above image amusing. Posted by Keri Jones on Facebook from the early 1990s, it shows Pennine FM also claiming it was “West Yorkshire’s Number One Hit Music Station”… there truly are no new ideas in radio! There’s a lot to unpack from this press ad, over thirty years later. Why was it important to promote...
