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COMMERCIAL LICENCES THAT NEVER WENT TO AIR

4CH  Charleville:  28-8-1930.  R.W. Gaskin.  This callsign was later granted to the A.B.C.
 
5MG  Mount Gambier:  May 1932.  Mount Gambier Broadcasting Company P/L.
 
5MC  Adelaide:  1925.  James Marshall and Company.  Company closed in 1928.
 
5EP  Port Lincoln:  Date unknown.  Radio Advertising Company (in Adelaide).  In 1932, this company was also granted a licence for Bunbury in Western Australia (callsign unknown) which never went to air.
 
2LE  Meadow Flat:  1933.  Radio Corporation Limited.  Their studio was installed in Sydney.  They falsely believed that they would be able to cover all of New South Wales from this location.
 
2SI  Singleton:  1937.  Jointly owned by Alex Mather (VK2JZ) and the Singleton Argus newspaper.  The licence was moved to Lochinvar as 2HR before opening.
 
6XY  Perth:  1927.  Licensee unknown.
 
2NZ  Narrabri.  Licensed in 1935 for 2,000 watts.  Licence was owned by 2GZ.  The licence was later changed to 2IN but still didn’t go to air despite the studio being installed in the “Courier” newspaper building.
 
5MA  Adelaide.  Millswood Auto and Radio Co. (A.W.A. retailers).  They first went to air with an experimental broadcast licence in 1921.  Issued the first Adelaide commercial licence on 2-11-1923.  They then tried unsuccessfully to sell the licence without having gone to air.
 
4MB  Brisbane.  1926.  Radio Manufacturers Brisbane.
 
Other  examples  of  commercial  licences  that  never went  to  air,  allocated  to  commercial (pre  A.B.C.)  stations:
 
2FC was issued with a second Sydney licence as 2FL.
 
2FC was also issued with licences for 6 NSW country towns which never went to air.
 
2BL was issued with a licence for Newcastle in 1925 which never went to air.
 
3AR was issued with a licence for Ballarat in 1926 which never went to air.
 
3LO was issued with a second Melbourne licence as 3FC.
 
4QG was issued with a licence for Rockhampton in 1926 as 4RK.  This callsign was later launched at Rockhampton on 29-7-1931 with programming by the privately owned Australian Broadcasting Company, until taken over by the A.B.C. on 1-7-1932, relaying 4QG with some local programs.
 
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