2LF is an Australian radio station serving the
Young
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Music
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region and is part of the
Super Radio Network with its sister station
Roccy FM. It was opened in February 1938.
The LF stands for
Lambing Flats and the station broadcasts on the AM dial on 1350 kilohertz and a power of 5 kilowatts - more than double the power of neighbouring radio stations
2WG Wagga Wagga,
2GN Goulburn and
2PK Parkes, all of which are rated at 2 kW. This may be due to the varying heights of the towns of Young,
Cowra
Cowra is a small town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. It is the largest population centre and the council seat for the Cowra Shire, with a population of 9,863.
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and
Cootamundra - 2LF's core audience.
Many famous names in Australian broadcasting and television either began their career at 2LF or worked there, including
Ken Sutcliffe
Ken Sutcliffe (born 15 November 1947) is an Australian sporting journalist and radio and television personality.
Career
Sutcliffe was born in Oberon, New South Wales and grew up in Mudgee. He started his radio career in 1966 in Mudgee, followe ...
,
Ray Warren
Raymond Warren OAM (born 11 June 1943) is a retired Australian sports commentator, known for his coverage of televised professional rugby league matches on the Nine Network. He is known as the "Voice of Rugby League", and called 99 State of ...
and
Mike Connors
Krekor Ohanian (August 15, 1925 – January 26, 2017), known professionally as Mike Connors, was an American actor best known for playing private detective Joe Mannix in the CBS television series ''Mannix'' from 1967 to 1975, a role which earne ...
. 2LF only became a 24-hour radio service in the late 1980s. Prior to this it finished broadcasting for the day after the midnight news and resumed with a test broadcast after 5am (which involved playing an album) before officially starting with the national anthem leading into the 5:30am news. When 2LF went "24 hours" it took programming from the co-owned 2WG Wagga Wagga with the on air branding of ''2WG/2LF''. 2WG itself took overnight satellite music programming from 2UW in Sydney which at that time provided radio network services to about 80 stations nationally.
Programming
![Young_-_Roccy_FM_and_2LF_radio_stations](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Young_-_Roccy_FM_and_2LF_radio_stations.jpg)
*Early Breakfast With Richard King
*Wake Up With Richard Spence
*The John Laws Morning Show
*Country Today With Neil Langford
*Afternoons With Brent Boltitude
*Talkin' Sport
*Sportsday NSW
*Nights With Graeme Gilbert
*Talk Overnight With Gary Stewart
News
*Phillip Horn
References
Radio stations in New South Wales
Radio stations established in 1938
News and talk radio stations in Australia
Classic hits radio stations in Australia
Broadcast Operations Group
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