Social photos: 5MU celebrates 90 years
Former staff members, clients and friends have marked the radio station's birthday at Murray Bridge Golf Club.
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Celebrating 5MU's birthday are Amber Kenna and Darren Allard; Adam Connelly and Jennie Lenman; Andrew Baltensperger and Stuart Kuhl; Wayne Thorley and Simone and Luke Bailey; Anna Bellon, Keith McCarten and Louise Fairbairn; Phil McEvoy and Agnes McEvoy; Glenn Malycha and Dennis Creaser; Di Bean-Taylor and Vicki Clark; and Richard Pascoe and Dave Howard. Photos: Peri Strathearn.
Past and present staff, clients and friends have celebrated radio station 5MU’s 90th birthday at Murray Bridge Golf Club.
A function on Saturday evening followed a week of on-air celebrations around the time of the anniversary in September.
Former announcers lined up to share stories, and several more recorded messages in tribute, as did musician John Schumann and Premier Peter Malinauskas.
Pioneering broadcaster Frank Miller originally established the station – the second to be granted a licence in South Australia – on the corner of Thomas Street and Eleanor Terrace, Murray Bridge on September 16, 1934.
As content director Adam Connelly noted on Saturday night, this was an era when the original inventor of wireless telegraphy, Guglielmo Marconi, was “still kicking around”.
The 5MU call sign is the oldest still in continuous use in SA.
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