City | Murwillumbah |
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Broadcast area | Murwillumbah/Tweed Heads, New South Wales/Gold Coast, Queensland |
Branding | Radio 97 |
Frequency | 972 kHz AM |
Translator(s) | 103.5 MHz FM Mullumbimby, New South Wales 104.1 MHz FM Currumbin, Queensland |
First air date | September 1, 1936 |
Language(s) | English |
Power | 5 kW |
Transmitter coordinates | 28°19′39″S 153°30′29″E / 28.32750°S 153.50806°E |
Affiliations | Super Radio Network |
Owner |
Broadcast Operations Group (Tweed Radio & Broadcasting Co Pty Ltd) |
Webcast | radio97 |
Website | radio97 |
2MW is an Australian radio station serving the Murwillumbah region. It was opened in September 1937.
Radio 97 owners, Broadcast Operations Group, have often been accused of a reluctance to pay experienced staff in order to cut operating costs.
In September 2009, Broadcast Operations Group was found to have underpaid a journalist and has been ordered to make a $10,000 backpayment. The journalist, who was studying communications at a Gold Coast university, worked part-time over a two-year period in the newsroom for Tweed Heads radio station Radio 97 was graded as a cadet. The Fair Work Ombudsman found that the Journalist was performing tasks that would normally be given to a Grade 1, Band 1 journalist under the Commercial Radio Journalists Award.