B105 FM is a commercial FM radio station broadcasting on 105.3 MHz in Brisbane, Australia. It is is part of the Austereo radio network with the official callsign of 4BBB. B105's primary audience is 10 to 24 age group^{[citation needed]}. Image File history File links B105. ... Brisbane (pronounced ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, as well as the third largest city in Australia. ... Look up slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... FreQuency is a music video game developed by Harmonix and published by SCEI. It was released in November 2001. ... A megahertz (MHz) is one million (106) hertz, a measure of frequency. ... FM radio is a broadcast technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. ... A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. ... Weekly British chart newsletter; sister publication to Music Week. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Kwai Lo is Chinese slang for foreigner or ghost person. ... Austereo is a national commercial radio network in Australia. ... The Today Network is a network of radio stations run by Austereo Radio Network. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... The abbreviations FM, Fm, and fm may refer to: Electrical engineering Frequency modulation (FM) and its most common applications: FM broadcasting, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies FM synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital synthesizers Science Femtometre (fm), an SI measure of length... Brisbane (pronounced ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, as well as the third largest city in Australia. ... Austereo is a national commercial radio network in Australia. ...

History

B105 originally broadcast on the medium wave band at 1296 kHz, with the callsign 4BK. In 1987, the Austereo group purchased the station, whose ratings had been poor^{[citation needed]}, intending to use it as a vehicle to bid for an FM conversion licence^{[citation needed]}. Austereo won the FM licence, and in February 1990, the station changed its callsign to 4BBB (not used on-air, unlike the previous AM callsign) and commenced broadcasting on a frequency of 105.3 MHz with the name B105. Austereo is a national commercial radio network in Australia. ...

Between March 1990 until 2005 it was the highest rating station in Brisbane except in one ratings survey.

Studios

The original 4BK studio complex was located at 16 Campbell Street, Bowen Hills. The complex was converted to an FM facility in 1990 and commenced broadcasting as B105 FM. The studio complex remained at the Bowen Hills location until August 2000, when owners Austereo relocated B105 and sister station Triple M into new combined premesis at 309 North Quay, Brisbane. The new complex was the first in Australia to use the revolutionary Klotz Digital audio system. Klotz Digital is a manufacturer of audio media products. ...

Software

The station's audio playout system is the most update version of dMarc Broadcasting's Maestro. Adobe's Audition is used in studio for recording and Broadcast Bionic's PhoneBox2 is the telephone system used by studio staff.

Transmission

B105 has always transmitted from the Channel Ten tower at Mount Coot-tha Brisbane. It originally used Harris HT10 tube transmitters to deliver the service, however in 2002 a new solid state Harris Z10CD transmitter was installed at the newly created TX Australia facility under the Channel Ten tower. The existing HT10 transmitter now serves as a backup facility located at the Channel Seven tower, 1 km away from Channel Ten on Mount Coot-tha.

B105's base power is 5 kilowatts.

Executive Staff

• General Manager - Richard Barker
• Sales Director - Damon Riley
• Program Director - Mitch Braund
• Music Director - Mickey Maher

Weekday DJ Lineup

• 6am - 9am - Labrat Camilla and Stav

• 9am - 12pm - Ryan "Rockhill" Tothill (from Sept 3)

• 12pm - 4pm - Chris "Becko" Beckhouse

• 4pm - 6pm - Hamish and Andy

• 6pm - 7pm - The Kyle & Jackie O Show

• 7pm - 10pm - Hot 30 Countdown

• 10pm - 12am - Scotty McDonald

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Breakfast Shows

Current Show - Labrat, Camilla and Stav

In December 2006 B105 announced the commencement of an exciting new look Breakfast show for 2007. The show, Labrat, Camilla and Stav, promised an exciting change in the seemingly stagment Brisbane breakfast radio market. Those familiar with Labrat's career looked forward to exciting stunts and controversial conversation & interviews, they were not let down. Day 1 of the new show saw Labrat and Stav make Camilla and her boyfriend (the show's audio producer, Glen) believe that she was being lie detected through an ISDN link to Sydney sister station 2DayFM, A number of questions were asked about a recent trip she had taken and particular focus was paid on weather she had cheated or not. Camilla sternly denied that she had, however, the voice on the line from Sydney assured them that she was definitley lying. A clearly upset Camilla was then told that the voice was simply Jaime Chaux (Labrat's old boss from Sydney) and it was all a scam, to which she replied "Fuck you" and stormed from the studio. This stunt marked the beginning of what was to be a new era at B105. Labrat, Camilla & Stav is the breakfast radio program of Radio Station B105 FM, a hit music station broadcasting in Brisbane, Australia. ...

Lab Rat

Spent three years as Kyle & Jackie O's 'man on the street' at 2Day FM, while running an afternoon solo shift and hosting the Saturday night show "Loaded" across the Today network. "Lab Rat" is a crap name hey !

Camilla Severi

Is a former Big Brother contestant. Camilla is currently pregnant with her boyfriend Glen's (the show's audio producer)child. Big Brother Australia is a reality television series produced by Endemol Southern Star, and shown on Australian television network Network Ten. ...

Stewart "Stav" Davidson

Made the finals of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Raw Comedy Competition in 2000, won the Bacardi Breezer New Comic of the Year competition in 2000 and was invited to perform on The Comedy Channel’s “Hahn Ice Headliners”. Stav was also part of the 2006 breakfast lineup.

Natasha "Tash" Jobson

Is the show's newsreader who is regularly heard to be the test monkey for the shows stunts and jokes - notably being made to read news from rides at Dreamworld and being tricked into believing she was being offered a higher paid position at rival station Nova. Dreamworld is a theme park situated on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. ...

Donna Puechmarin

The show's Executive Producer (EP)

Ping Pong

The show's "Filipino" assistant producer.

Others

• Chopper Dave The show's (and stations) traffic reporter. In May 2007 he went into hospital for heart surgery and was interveiwed a number of times by the team regarding the surgery and his progress.
• Melissa "News Nazi" Martin The stations News Director who has been spoken about a number of times on the show generally about arguing with Labrat about his new News policies. Melissa also filled in for Tash in April after Tash broke her arm.
• Biggzy The stations Hot30 Countdown (night show) co-host appeared for two days to fill in for an ill Camilla.
• Randoms
  • Micheala - From the stations promotions department has been heard mentioned on air a handful of times and was also involved in a prank on the station's Kyle Sandilands
  • Scotty the Phone Guy - Has been mentioned, but not heard, a number of times on air, most notably when Labrat pointed out Top Hat Tom had bought Easter gifts for everyone on the team except Tash. Is believed to be the Late night announcer filling in.....

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Regular show segments

• Wheel of inappropriate questions a wheel is setup in the studio when big guests drop in with a number of questions placed on it, guests are asked to spin the wheel, and answer the question it lands on - notably Megan Gale was asked if she had a name for her genitals, and Kevin Rudd was asked if he farted in front of his wife.
• Plasma pop quiz daily quiz segment where a listener is asked ten pop culture questions by Stav, winning $10 per correct answer, and a plasma tv if all ten are answered correctly.
• Ask Uncle Stav Children call in and ask Stav their questions that their parents can't/won't answer. Typically, the more shocking, funny or inappropriate questions are put through, with Stav previously being asked "Why does my brother kiss boys not girls?" "Why does my willy get hard" and "Did my goldfish die because I didn't eat my veggies?
• Camilla's Inside Word Celebrity goss segment presented by Camilla.
• Taking it in the ear Labrat and Stav go to various locations, Stav has an earpeice in which labrat can talk to him via from an unmarked car nearby. Stav must do and say as labrat tells him. The most notable Taking it in the ear was done from the Logies red carpet where Stav asked a number of well known Australian TV stars very inappropriate questions, however, Guy Sebastian, familiar with Stav and Labrat hooked into the stunt after being told he was at a Virginity checkpoint he answered Stav with "Labrat you bastard".

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"Jamie Dunn and the B105 Morning Crew"

The Jamie Dunn, Ian Skippen and Donna Lynch were the original morning crew started in 1990. Donna Lynch left in the 1990s, and was replaced by Robyn Bailey. Bailey was shifted to Drive in 2002, making way for Penny Cooper. Jamie Dunn is an Australian comedian and entertainer. ...

The show included segmants such as the "Lord Mayor Jim" (who was voiced by Ian Calder)^{[citation needed]} which was a parody of Brisbane Lord Mayor Jim Soorley, and rang up every morning at 7:10AM, giving his versions on what was happening around the city, state, country and world. When Soorely retired from the Lord Mayor's position, Lord Mayor Jim was renamed Citizen Jim by a listener in a competition. Jim was retired from the airwaves in mid-2005 with little to no information being given as to why. James (Jim) Gerard Soorley (born 1951) is an Australian politician. ...

Agro, a puppet character owned by Jamie Dunn, made regular appearances on the morning show. Other segments included daily Skits, which were often voiced by Jamie Dunn and Ian Calder, as well as the Bennetts, which made it's on air debut in 2003. The Bennetts were a parody of the life of Wayne Bennett and the Brisbane Broncos, who were portrayed as a family. Agro Agro is a puppet character on Australian television, who describes himself as a talking bathmat. He is operated by comedian Jamie Dunn. ...

In 2004 Austereo shifted the anchor of the B105 Morning Crew, Ian Skippen, to anchor a new show on sister station Triple M. Iam Skippen was replaced by long serving and well respected Drive announcer Dean Kesby.

While Skippen and the new Triple M breakfast team show enjoyed success, B105's fortunes declined. The introduction of DMG's new FM station Nova 106.9 reduced B105's ratings, dropping it to third position for the first time in its history. DMG Radio Australia operates commercial radio networks in metropolitan and regional areas of Australia. ... Nova 106. ...

On Wednesday, September 21, 2005, B105 announced the departure of Jamie Dunn who had resigned after talks with management failed to secure him a contracted future with B105. The final show was on Friday December 2nd, 2005 with an outside broadcast at the Royal Brisbane Children's Hospital. Jamie Dunn is an Australian comedian and entertainer. ...

One sour note was the decision, in all likelihood directed by Austereo, to briefly include former B105 breakfast anchor Ian Skippen in the final broadcast. At around 7.30am Skippen appeared on stage in Triple M gear, and used the time on air (broadcast on both 4MMM and B105) to promote Triple M and his new show while contributing $2,000 to the appeal. Dunn and Skippen had experienced conflict in the past^{[citation needed]}.

"B105's New Breakfast Show"

B105 trialed possible candidates for the new Breakfast Show through a Drive program that ran from 4PM-6PM. It began with "Katie, Ryan and Whipper", then "Stav and Mike" (with B105's AV anchoring), then "Stav, Mike and Whipper", then "Stav, Mike, Whippa and Gabby". B105 chose to go with Gabby, Mike and Stav, along with Ben Wasley, who had previously anchored Austereo's The Arvo with Peter Hellier and Judith Lucy. Whippa was moved to Perth to the new breakfast team at 92.9. The "B105's New Breakfast Show" was renamed as "The New Buzz in Brisbane" in mid-2006

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Other programs

Saturday

• Best of Hamish and Andy - Saturday 7-9am

• The Hot Hits - Saturday 4-8pm

Sunday

• Take 40 Australia - Sunday 8am-12pm

• Rate The Hits National Countdown - Sunday 4-6pm

• American Top 40 - Sunday 8pm-12am

Past B105 personalities

• List of B105 Personalities

Brisbane radio station B105, has featured a number of presenters during its history // Toss up between Jamie Angel and Campo as best ever Left in 2002; now back in Brisbane. ...

See also

• List of Australian radio stations