It was a hot summer’s day when triple j first began broadcast on 19 January 1975 in Sydney, launching onto the airwaves, and straight into controversy by playing as its first track, the then-banned Sky hooks track ‘You Just Like Me ‘Cause I’m Good in Bed’. In the beginning the station was called 2JJ, and it broadcast on the AM band, which is a fossil yard now, and on 1 August 1980 the station moved to the FM band and renamed itself 2JJJ. In 1989, triple j began the first of its re-launch campaigns, a plan to expand into all the capital cities of Australia, including Newcastle in NSW, and in so doing became Australia’s only national youth broadcaster. Official website of ABC Triple J is www.abc.net.au/triplej

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