The first FM station in Australia (15 Dec 1974 to air, with an experimental licence offered by the then PostMaster General's Dept), 2MBS-FM, first in Crows Nest, and then in St Leonards from 1978. It is an all-music, mostly classical station, entirely set up by (and operated in the broadcasting and recording [studio, concert, LP/CD] part of its activities by) volunteers, and financed by subscribers. Its genesis was the alienation of NSW musiclovers by the ABC's failure to broadcast music at the time, and by the Federal Government's diversion of the international FM band for TV in Australia.

de