2MW, better known as Radio 97, is an Australian radio station serving the

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region. It was opened in September 1937.

Controversy

Underpayment of Staff

Radio 97 owners,

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, have often been accused of a reluctance to pay experienced staff in order to cut operating costs. In September 2009, Broadcast Operations Group was found to have underpaid a journalist and has been ordered to make a $10,000 backpayment. The journalist, who was studying communications at a Gold Coast university, worked part-time over a two-year period in the newsroom for Tweed Heads radio station Radio 97 was graded as a cadet. The

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found that the Journalist was performing tasks that would normally be given to a Grade 1, Band 1 journalist under the Commercial Radio Journalists Award.

References

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