TUNE! FM

TuneFM (ACMA callsign: 2UNE) is the University of New England's (UNE) campus radio station, a high power open narrowcasting service operated by UNELife in Armidale, Australia.

[citation needed] After overcoming technical and operational hurdles, Radio UNE (RUNE) began test transmissions on 1630 kHz on the AM band in March 1970.

The station was officially opened at 7pm on 27 April that year, with a pre-recorded message from the Vice Chancellor, Professor Zelman Cowen who oversaw the license application.

Both of these appeals were rejected by the ABA and ACMA respectively, even though the location of TuneFM's transmitter at the Newling Building in town restricts the station from being heard reliably on the main UNE campus.

TuneFM became the focus of national attention during the 2010 Australian federal election, after TUNE's Operations Manager Kate Doak released audio from the station's archives of Opposition Leader Tony Abbott from 1979.

The story was picked up by the Sydney Morning Herald and remained in the Headlines section of their website for over three days during the election campaign, under the name of "The Tiny Tony Tapes".

Studio 1 in 2007