Remember This? 2SM Newspaper Advertisement (1966)

In the last entry of our current run of Remember This? comprises of a 1966 newspaper advertisement for radio station 2SM. 

 

Source: 2SM. 1966. "2SM goes king" (Advertisement). The Daily Mirror, January 10: 12. 

The weekday schedule was as follows:

• Phil Haldeman (5 am to 9 am)
• John Mahon (9 am to 1 pm)
• "Big" Sam Kronia (1 pm to 4 pm)
• Tony Murphy (4 pm to 7 pm)
• Mike Walsh (7pm to 10 pm)
• Dal Myles (10 pm - Midnight)

Haldeman was in his role alongside that of narrating newsreels for Cinesound. 

The most notable name on the lineup is Mike Walsh, whom would go onto a successful TV career during the 1970s and 1980s as the host of the Mike Walsh Show which ran on Channel Nine from 1973 to 1985.

Dal Myles and Tony Murphy also would eventually find their way onto TV Screens. Older readers may remember that Myles presented Ten Eyewitness News Nightcast alongside evening news updates during the 1980s at channel ten. Tony Murphy would succeed Jimmy Hannan as host of Saturday Date on TCN9 and cohosted Good Morning Australia alongside Kerri-Anne Kennerely and Candid Camera Australia on Channel Ten at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s.