Gold Coast: Gold FM hosts celebrate new rebranding of national name

It was a bittersweet goodbye for a long-running Gold Coast radio station this week — but the resident hosts were celebrating.

IT was a bittersweet goodbye yesterday for Gold FM after the long-running name was axed and the station given a new brand – and despite the sadness of farewelling the old, resident radio hosts were celebrating the new.

Yesterday was the last time the classic rock station on 92.5 went to air as Gold FM.

It is now rebranded under the Triple M network as “92.5 Triple M”.

Resident 92.5 breakfast radio host Spida Everitt, who has spent almost a decade with the radio station, told the Bulletin the change “will be great”.

Lawrence Mooney performed standup for the goodbye party. Picture: Lawrence Pinder

“I’ve been here for nine years and honestly I’m really excited,” he said.

“I love Triple M. I grew up with it. It’s the most recognised radio brand in the country, but we will still be local as ever.”

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The Rush Hour afternoon host Luke Bradnam had only been with the network for three years but said he had always been a fan of the station, remembering all the past names.

“I’ve always loved Triple M. It’s the coolest brand on radio and since I was a kid I wanted to be on Triple M,” he said.

“(Gold FM) used to be my competition when I was at Hot Tomato but I always envied they were an original Gold Coast station.

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“Originally we were 4GG, which is a station I loved as a kid. Then they changed to KROQ, then Gold FM, now Triple M.”

The resident hosts are celebrating. Picture: Lawrence Pinder

The network celebrated yesterday afternoon by throwing a free gig in Cavill Avenue in Surfers Paradise with band Birds of Tokyo, singer Conrad Sewell and entertainment from Australian comedian Lawrence Mooney.

Fifty-two years ago, in 1967, 4GG began broadcasting as an AM station before changing to the FM band and becoming Triple G in 1989, then changing again to KROQ.