Talk:Triple J

message: I wouldn't, if I knew who they were to start with :)  (We didn't get Triple J in my area until 1995)  --Chuq 02:48, 5 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Something

message: Info from these sites might be useful for early station history:
*http://web.archive.org/web/19990828025123/kali.murdoch.edu.au/cntinuum/6.1/Dawson.html - (found with archive.org)
*http://www.milesago.com/Radio/2jj.htm
-- Chuq 07:26, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Station history 

message: A couple of questions about changes to the unearthed section:
*I think it was more of an ongoing thing, than an annual thing?
*Innocent Criminals (=Silverchair) was, although a Triple J discovery, before the whole Unearthed thing?  (I'm fairly sure though, that their 'finding' of this band encouraged them to start the Unearthed project).
-- Chuq 03:56, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unearthed 

message: Should a separate article be created for Double Jay?
*If not, Double Jay should redirect to Triple J and links to it should be removed.
*If so, some of the history content from Triple J could be moved there, and it should be linked from this article prominently.  Maybe History of Triple J could possibly redirect to there as well, but obviously anything from 1980 onwards would not be in the Double Jay article so it could be an awkward split.
-- Chuq 04:46, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Double Jay should redirect here. It's still the same station, really, and cutting it out would mean wiping out a large portion of the current article. Ambi 10:55, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Triple J / Double Jay 

message: I am currently testing an automated Wikipedia link suggester. Ran it on this article, here are the results:
* Can link market share: ...urveys, usually with less than half the market share of its major commercial rivals.http://...
* Can link The establishment: ...stralian commercial radio stations. The establishment of Double Jay marked an historic change...
* Can link Double Jay: ... radio stations. The establishment of Double Jay marked an historic change in Australian...
* Can link capital city: ... radio licence issued in any Australian capital city since 1932....
* Can link program director: ...a 1990 commercial radio manager and program director Barry Chapman (ex-2SM Sydney) w...
* Can link general manager: ... (ex-2SM Sydney) was appointed as general manager to oversee Triple J's network expansion...
* Can link radio programming: ...he dust had settled on the dispute, the radio programming was not nearly as free-form as it had b...
* Can link current affairs: ...ection below).  It also covers news and current affairs from a youth-oriented perspective,a alt...
* Can link top-down: ...dually replaced by a more business-like top-down management style and after the controve...
* Can link Japanese pop: ...special-interest programs including the Japanese pop show Nippi Rock Shop, Arnold Frolow...
* Can link American music: ...riented grunge style that dominated American music at the same time. ...
* Can link The Police: ...he huge commercial success of acts like The Police and Nirvana in Australia unquestionably...
* Can link popular songs: ...est 100 is an annual poll of the most popular songs amongst its listeners.  It has been con...
* Can link gold medal: ...eing waved behind the presentation of a gold medal to an Australia swimmer at the 1996 S...
* Can link road signs: ... Australia. *A group of people erecting road signs with the Triple J frequency all the way...
* Can link Tim Ross: ...(Net 50, -1998-2000) *Merrick Watts and Tim Ross - "Merrick and Rosso"...
Notes: The article text has not been changed in any way; Some of these links may be wrong, some may be right; You can leave positive feedback or negative feedback; Please feel free to delete this section from the talk page.  -- Nickj 08:07, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible Wiki Links

message: What to do with the following articles, so far as content and redirects go?
Frenzal Rhomb, Jay and the Doctor, Jason Whalley, Lindsay McDougall
I've set up the first two as their own articles, and the last two as redirects to Jay and the Doctor.  I guess it is similar to Merrick and Rosso or Roy and HG, in that they are rarely known for the individual pursuits.  (Compare to Adam and Wil, who each have their own "other things" that they are well known for.)  -- Chuq 03:04, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Jay/Lindsay links

message: Does anyone know where rating can be acquired for free?  It would be interesting to see.. I've heard Triple J's ratings are a lot better outside the five major cities, but would like some numbers to back it up. -- Chuq 04:47, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The Melb/Sydney ones linked in the header are the only ones I know of. I'm sure it does rate better in regional areas, it's very often the only radio station which plays modern music in rural/regional areas and judging by the callers to shows like super request, a good % of the audience is from regional areas. But I don't have the figures. Psychobabble
You can access them at AC Nielson's Media Research site - http://www.nielsenmedia.com.au/MRI_pages.asp?MRIID=11 , plus there is an archive http://www.acnielsen.com.au/radio_archive.asp . Reubot 07:26, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Radio ratings

message: Triple J is coming up to its 30th anniverary in Jan 2005, and they have a page dedicated to collecting historical info:
http://www2b.abc.net.au/triplej/30days30years/ - this could come in very handy! -- Chuq 02:35, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: 30 Year anniversary

message: I know the article says that Triple J's target group is between the ages of 12 and 25, but the metropolitan radio rating surveys show that they have their highest market share in the 25-39 age range. I don't know how to work this into the article, though. Did Triple J peak in popularity in the 1980s, thus explaining why this age group prefers it despite not being the intended target group? - Mark 08:10, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Target group 

message: I am looking at this: . I would like to include some information about triple J moving online since, to me at least, it's a really important aspect of triple J - especially the podcasts. Any ideas or pointers before I go ahead and add. I thought of adding maybe 1 or 2 paragraphs in the History under a new '2000 onwards' subsection. The website started in 1995 but has probably been more relevant in the 2000 onwards historical division.  Thoughts? --Lisa 04:31, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  JJJ online 

message: If someone culd look at that articel and merge it in here if appropriate, would be great. 1 sentence wld probably be enough. Rich Farmbrough 12:06, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jack the love nerd 

message: Is it worth making some mention of Mel's "Like a Version" program here? It's been going for a while, and it seems to me quite a few popular covers are coming from it. pfctdayelise 15:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Like a Version? 

message: If you look at the ABC website and the triple j website you will see that triple j is written in all lower case. I realise that it isn't possible to write the title in all lower case but shouldn't it be written as 'triple j' throughout the article rather than the present Triple J? --Zig c 10:50, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Triple J vs triple j 

message: Can anyone write more on this subject, Natimark was great. Enlil Ninlil 09:12, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: One night stand

message: I am putting all programs in without much content now, hope someone will fill out. I will do it over the next month. My spelling is also no good. Is this ok or too much info? Enlil Ninlil 01:02, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Programs

message: It may be helpful to list all CDs released by triple j over the years; Full Metal Racket and Eleven are but two not shown on this page Mdgr 05:31, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: CD Compilations/Releases

message: I think this article is too long.  Perhaps it needs to have an abreviated history paragraph with a link to a main article Triple J History.  Also I think the current presenters need to be on the main page but surely the long list of past presenters can be moved to a seperate article List of Triple J presenters?--TInTIn 08:12, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Length

message: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/30years/audio/censorship_nwa_1990.mp3
I found this on the web before finding this article.... RealG187 18:39, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Audio Version 

message: How amusing.  I recently split off the list of presenters to list of Triple J presenters.  Now on reading this talk page, I see it has already been suggested be two people in the past - once (when Ambi/Rebecca suggested itover 3 years ago) I disagreed with it!  I must have a bad memory.  Anyway, it has been done now - referencing it is difficult - not finding the sources, but fitting it all into the table is ..
I have also started on (in my user space) User:Chuq/List of Triple J programs - partially as an easier way of displaying the presenter info.  All comments/suggestions appreciated. -- Chuq 08:02, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: List of presenters/programs

message: It'd be nice to be able to easily find the Triple J frequency on the page. I've skimmed the article and I still can't find it. It's turned what should be a 30 second "maybe I should look that up" into a bit of a hassle. I know it can be found elsewhere but it'd only be a small addition to make the article more useful.  Bride of lister 10:51, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frequency?  

message: Almost the entire article reads like a bad high school paper. There are maybe ten sourced statements in the article. The rest looks like original research. Can we get some sources for this article? 122.104.160.66 (talk) 02:33, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, parts of it just seem to be someone's opinion, and while I don't for the most part disagree with it, it's not encyclopaedic. Orderinchaos 12:33, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, OK, I'm working on it. Trouble is there aren't many easily accessible comprehensive references (hey, YOU can spend hours in trawling old newspapers if you're so excited about it). I freely admit that a lot of the content in the early section is from my own knowledge of the station (I've been a listener since Day One), but the only half-decent print reference for the early years of the station is Elder & Wales (which I'm working through) and it's very useful but not exactly systematic in its presentation; there are also a few scattered references in Ken Inglis' book on the ABC which I'll add as soon as possible. I understand that former DJ Gayle Austin was writing a thesis about the first 16 years of the station ( but I've not located that yet. Dunks (talk) 13:24, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Too busy trawling old newspapers for my own area of articles (see this one for a recent example :) I know what you mean though and my comments certainly weren't intended as a slight. I don't think the offending bits were yours anyway. Orderinchaos 06:24, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lack of Sources 

message: I have just reverted these changes for many reasons:
*Although Triple J just uses the lowercase style "triple j" in its current publicity material (website, logo, etc), it has been "Triple J" in the past.
*The style "Triple J" is currently used by people outside the station    
*The bulk replace broke some images, some links, and probably (though I didn't test them) interwiki links as well..
*The bulk replace changed peoples comments on the talk page - fair enough, it was only the case - but still shouldn't change others comments.
*According to the edit summary it was done by someone employed at the station (as an anon user)
-- Chuq (talk) 10:25, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replacement of 'Triple J' with 'triple j' throughout article and talk page 

message: RCA missing from Comedy section! Does anyone have any contact with anyone official at triple j? I'd be willing to create an Award stub (with link to this page, of course) for the Raw Comedy Award if I could get some reliable info on it. (I'm not getting anything useful by Googling.)--Tyranny Sue (talk) 04:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Raw Comedy Awards 

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message: I listened to JJ in Canberra in the 80s, it was great, Helen Razor (her band was great too) etc..
When it went national it was fantastic in Melbourne.
At the time in 1990 when Fuck tha Police induced mass firings there followed several days of dreary songs from upper management who stood in for DJs, followed by the noticeable introduction of strong playlisting. For me, this marked the end of a youth-run station as such.
Some of the information about the sackings should be incorporated in the article. I found this online description of the sackings from Tracy Hutchinson, someone very much in the spot:
"‘Fuck Tha Police’ – how I remember the JJJ sackings
By mid 1990 the old 2JJJ had become a fully-fledged national network and where we’d previously sailed under the radar with some of the more colourful language contained in the music we sometimes played suddenly we were in the national spotlight. In particular NWA’s ‘Fuck Tha Police’ came in for some criticism by parliamentarians in Adelaide and the West Australian police service who claimed the song incited racial tension. (WA at that time had the highest black deaths in custody rate in the country). They pressured ABC management to ban the song and in an unprecedented and extremely unpopular move station management introduced a censorship policy and banned us from playing the song. We were outraged and in response the station’s daily current affairs program, The Drum, prepared a story on the use of the word ‘fuck’ in the modern vernacular and included just over 20 seconds of the song in the produced story. JJJ management got wind of it and instructed the EP, Nick Franklin, not to play it. He refused to acquiesce, played the piece and was suspended without pay on the spot. The rest of us went on strike but not before we’d rigged up a loop of Heaven 17’s ‘We Don’t Need This Fascist Groove Thing’, which played for sometime before management twigged what was going on. Those were the days…
Sadly our fiesty, youthful defiance was rewarded by each of the fulltime announcers involved in strike action over ‘Fuck Tha Police’ losing our jobs. I chose to resign over the issue before my on-air colleagues, the likes of Tim Ritchie, Tony Biggs, Gayle Austin and Amanda Collinge, were replaced by a new regime of broadcasters. Despite a huge protest rally over our ‘sacking’, that was held at Sydney Town Hall and attended by thousands listeners, we were out on our ear."
Star A Star (talk) 03:27, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  1990 events 

message: How about some info on how to find the JJ broadcast channel?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.181.71.174 (talk) 17:58, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Dig JJ Frequency 

message: Is the Programming history section ( by Guyinsydney) a good idea?  Is this sort of thing common in other radio ststion articles?  Remember, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information.  —sroc 💬 15:08, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Programming history 

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message: This is odd - I thought the change to lower case was in the mid-00s - but according to this article, it's been the case (almost) forever?  Herald Sun (screenshot due to paywall)  I'm suspecting the source is wrong there.
I know their logo was stylised in lower case before the mid-00s but I didn't think it was typical style to refer to it in text like that, at that point.  All the Trove articles I can find from the 1980s show it with initial capitals but thats what newspapers at the time would have done anyway. (those Trove articles are a great rabbit hole to go down for historic sources, btw!)
https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Triple_J shows some variants.  As an aside, there is one missing that I distinctly remember in the mid-late 90s (at the same time as #3, or between #3-#4), which used a lower case, sans-serif wide font.  Oddly, it appears to have completely disappeared from the internet, apart from the wayback machine (which only goes as far back as 1999). -- Chuq (talk) 02:20, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Timing of change to lower case