2BS is a commercial radio station in Australia that broadcasts to the Central Tablelands of New South Wales. It is a radio station that broadcasts adult contemporary music. 2BS broadcasts a gold music format as well as comprehensive local and national news. Since 1969, Bathurst Broadcasters has been locally owned and operated by Ron and Stephanie Camplin, who live at the top of William Street in Bathurst and are very hands-on with the company’s day-to-day operations. Its announcers are personalities who inform and entertain, making the radio station a community focal point. They define themselves through community service in the form of live and recorded community service announcements.
Broadcast Operations Group owns and operates the station, which broadcasts a news talk and classic hits music format with local programming from Bathurst studios. 2BS’s gold-based music format is defined by local interviews, talkback, and community announcements. This radio station does not promote commercial-free or reduced-commercial programming, and they are strongly opposed to any promotion that implies radio advertisements are bad or unacceptable.
General Information
- City: Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
- Frequency: 95.1 MHz FM
- Branding: 2BS 95.1 FM
- Owner: Broadcast Operations Group (Bathurst Broadcasters Pty Ltd)
- Sister stations: B-Rock 99.3FM
- First air date: 1 January 1937
History
On January 1, 1937, the station began broadcasting. Prior to that, the Mockler Brothers owned a station in Bathurst with the call letters 2MK, which began broadcasting on October 31, 1925.
In the 1950s, it was discovered that the signal from 2BS was interfering with the signal from Melbourne station 3AK at night. As a result, 3AK, which had previously been an overnight station, was forced to become a daytime-only station. In the 1960s, the problem was solved by switching to directional antennas, which allowed 3AK to begin 24-hour transmission. Both stations were owned by Australian Consolidated Press (ACP) at the time. ACP sold 2BS to Ron Camplin in 1969, and he owned the station until mid-2019.
The station was previously owned by the London Times Mirror and Australian Consolidated and was operated by local proprietors Ron and Stephanie Camplin for nearly fifty years. In June 2019, 2BS and its sister station B-Rock FM were sold to the Broadcast Operations Group, owned by Bill Caralis.
While 2BS has promoted itself as one of Australia’s few remaining locally owned commercial broadcasters, radio industry website Radioinfo sources say a sale of 2BS and BRock Bathurst is imminent in 2018. In June 2019, the Campaigns sold Bathurst Broadcasters to the Bill Caralis-owned Broadcast Operations Group, which owns the 2EL radio station in the neighboring Orange radio market.
Program Schedules
Monday to Friday
- 12.00am – 5.30am: Overnight hosted by Michael McLaren (Sun-Thur)
- 5.30am – 9.00am: Brekky with Pecky hosted by Kerry Peck
- 9.00am – 12.00pm: John Laws Morning Show
- 12.00pm – 4.00pm: Live & Local hosted by Jac Underwood
- *3.00pm – 4.00pm Wednesday: Hump Day hosted by Dominic Ingersole & Christopher Morgan
- 4.00pm – 5.00pm: Heading Home hosted by PJ thanks to Harvey Norman Electrical
- 5.00pm – 6.00pm: Heading Home hosted by PJ thanks to Bathurst Real Estate
- 6.00pm – 7.00pm: Talkin Sport
- *6.00pm – 8.00pm Friday: NRL Nation
- 7.00pm – 8.00pm: Money Talk hosted by Brook Corte (Mon – Thur)
- *8.00pm – 12.00am Friday: Essential Playlist
- 8.00pm – 12.00am: Nights hosted by John Stanley (Mon – Thur)
Saturday
- 12.00am – 6.00am: Overnight hosted by Luke Grant
- 6.00am – 12.00pm: Weekend Wireless Program hosted by Benny Hope
- 12.00pm – 1.00pm: Drivers Seat hosted by Steve Johnson & Matt Mackelden
- 1.00pm – 2.00pm: The Essential Playlist
- 2.00pm – 5.00pm: NRL Nation
- 5.00pm – 12.00am: The Essential Playlist
Sunday
- 12.00am – 6.00am: Overnight hosted by Luke Grant
- 6.00am – 8.00am: The Garden Clinic hosted by Sandra & Graham Ross
- 8.00am – 9.00am: The Great Australian Doorstep hosted by Peter Everitt
- 9.00am – 10.00am: Breaking Politics
- 10.00am – 12.00pm: The Camping & Off Road Show hosted by Robert Smith
- 12.00pm – 3.00pm: The Essential Playlist
- 3.00pm – 6.00pm: NRL Nation
- 6.00pm – 12.00am: The Essential Playlist
Contact Info –
- Postal address: PO Box 310, Bathurst, NSW 2795
- Telephone: +61 2 6331 7777
- Official website: 2bs.com.au
- YouTube: 2BSGold
- Main email: reception@2bs.com.au
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