Celebrating Volume 31. 1 & 2 Jocks’ Journal 30yrs January 1-31,2019 “Australia’s longest running radio industry publication” Jocks’ Journal Celebrates 30 Years NEWMEDIA As soon as I saw my mate Phil’s print out from an Apple Mac Postal Address: computer in 1989 a light bulb went off in my head. I then Brisbane realised it was now possible to 'have a go' at an idea I had for PO Box 2363 an ‘almanac’ trivia publication for radio presenters. For years Mansfield BC Qld 4122 I had collected ‘famous birthdays’ and ‘on this day’ trivia. I Web Address: suppose the seeds go back to the fact that I diligently kept a www.newmedia.com.au daily diary from all my high school years and beyond. Now as Email: we were entering a new age in computers and technology it
[email protected] was possible to do ‘desk top publishing’. Phone Contacts: In January 1989 I borrowed my mate’s Apple computer, paid my friend Kerry to laser print a master Office: (07) 3422 1374 copy, then photocopied a sample edition for every commercial radio station and did a test run. Mobile: 0407 750 694 On January 25 we signed up our first subscriber. A fax came through confirming that a young4ZR announcer Clive Burnell (sadly passed on) had signed up. From then on the subscriptions kept rolling in and we never looked back. The first JJ only included an almanac section but soon grew to include radio news, radio jobs (page 3) and other radio-related articles.