Triple M Central West (call sign: 2OAG) is an Australian

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, licensed to

Orange, New South Wales Orange is a city in the Central Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. It is west of the state capital, Sydney on a great circle at an altitude of . Orange had an estimated urban population of 40,493 Estimated resident population, 3 ...

. It is owned and operated by Macquarie Regional RadioWorks, and transmits on 105.1

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on the FM band. It originally broadcast on 990 kHz, before switching to 1089 kHz, before switching to the FM band. The former Am frequency of 1089 was turned into a relay station of an automated Sydney station, and later purchased by Broadcast Operations Group. The station was founded in the mid-1930s. It was opened by the Postmaster General, Sen. McLachlan on the evening of 31 October 1935. The ceremony was actually performed in Sale, Victoria, as the Senator was performing a similar duty opening the new

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regional station 3GI. The speech was relayed by landline to Orange. Contrary to popular thought, 2GZ was not the first to open west of the Blue Mountains as previously thought, that honour goes to 2MK at Bathurst, it opened in 1925 and closed in 1930/31. The original licensee of 2GZ was Country Broadcasting Services (later

Country Television Services Country Television Services Limited, formerly Country Broadcasting Services was an Australian media company, wholly owning two television stations, CBN-8 Orange and CWN-6 Dubbo (now Prime7), as well as stakes in several others (NTD-8 Darwin b ...

Ltd), who also launched

CBN-8 CBN is an Australian television station licensed to, and serving the regions surrounding Orange, New South Wales, Orange, Dubbo and central and southern New South Wales. History Origins CBN-8 Orange commenced broadcasting on 17 March 1962, ...

Orange and

CWN-6 CBN is an Australian television station licensed to, and serving the regions surrounding Orange, Dubbo and central and southern New South Wales. History Origins CBN-8 Orange commenced broadcasting on 17 March 1962, licensed to ''Country Br ...

Dubbo Dubbo () is a city in the Orana Region of New South Wales, Australia. It is the largest population centre in the Orana region, with a population of 43,516 at June 2021. The city is located at the intersection of the Newell, Mitchell, and Gol ...

, now

Prime Television Prime7, formerly Prime Television and other names, was an Australian television network. Prime Television launched on 17 March 1962 as '' CBN-8'' in Orange, and later expanded to cover regional New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capi ...

, in the 1960s. The station converted to the FM band on October 8, 1999. Today the station broadcasts an

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format, with a wide playlist of songs from the 1960s through to the 1990s and today, with a target demographic of 35–55 years. It was the Central West outlet for the John Laws morning show, as well as running its own breakfast program, similar to most of the former

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-owned stations. It then ran the

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morning show, sending Laws to 2EL. Ironically, 2GZ was once one of the regional stations that Laws worked at before becoming a national radio icon. In December, Macquarie severed ties with Charles Wooley, and was one of a handful of regional stations to take up a feed of Ray Hadley's 2GB radio show, commencing January 27. In late 2016 Southern Cross Austereo took over and rebranded the station, along with quite a few regional stations Triple M Central West.

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2GZ FM Radio stations in New South Wales Southern Cross Media Group Radio stations established in 1935 Adult contemporary radio stations in Australia {{Australia-radio-station-stub

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