Triple M Central West

Triple M Central West
MHz FM;
Branding	Triple M Central West
Ownership
Owner	Southern Cross Austereo
Sister stations	hit105.9 Central West
History
First air date	1935
Former call signs	2GZ (1935-1999)
Technical information
Transmitter coordinates	33°17′01″S 149°06′00″E / 33.283626°S 149.099984°E
Links
Website	triplem.com.au/centralwest

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

MHz 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

Prime Television

, in the 1960s.

The station converted to the FM band on October 8, 1999.

Today the station broadcasts an

Classic Hits

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

DMG-owned stations. It then ran the Charles Wooley

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.[3]