John Laws: Top 40 radio arrives
1993
John Laws: Top 40 radio arrives
1993
- NFSA IDMPCP8P1N
- TypeOral History
- MediumAudio
- FormOral history, Series
- Year1993
In this excerpt from an oral history interview with John Laws, he discusses his radio career, beginning with his tenure at 2UE, which started in 1957.
Laws credits Alan Faulkner with inventing the Top 40 radio format as a way to attract a more youthful audience to radio after TV arrived in Australia in 1956.
In this excerpt from an oral history interview with John Laws, he discusses his radio career, beginning with his tenure at 2UE, which started in 1957.
Laws credits Alan Faulkner with inventing the Top 40 radio format as a way to attract a more youthful audience to radio after TV arrived in Australia in 1956.
- NFSA IDMPCP8P1N
- TypeOral History
- MediumAudio
- FormOral history, Series
- Year1993
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