4BK Radio Memories

29/08/2026

Here's a memory for you from the Telegraph newspaper* November 1984, when 4BK presented the Family Christmas entertainment event. Did you attend and if you did, what are your memories of the evening?

*Thanks Luke from Qld Radio Memories

12/08/2026

Aah, Waynee Poo, we miss you. But thanks heaps for all the great memories (and earworms, lol!).

Wayne Roberts, Radio 4BK Music, Brisbane 1981. I do not own nor cla...

10/08/2026

https://youtu.be/4Jh0gVK9z30?feature=shared

A Brisbane TV ad featuring BK Bear. Great memories!

14/07/2026

Back around 66 years ago, Brisbane morning radio was firmly focussed on the ladies of the house, with a line-up of music and back-to-back serials to keep them glued to their Bakelite valve radios📻

Clipping from The Telegraph 8/1/60 thanks to Luke at Queensland Radio Memories.

09/07/2026

Don't you love this song?

05/07/2026

Ahead of its time. 4BK experimented with the soft rock format in 1983. Forty years later, the stations running this genre of music are always high in the ratings (i.e. Smooth FM, Cruise Adelaide, etc).

Thanks again to Luke at Qld Radio Memories for this ad from the Telegraph newspaper of 14/10/83.

30/05/2026

Back around 1979-1982 when 4BK was Brisbane's most listened to radio station, it was the Wayne Roberts Breakfast Show which evokes such good memories of belly laughs at the breakfast table or behind the wheel on the way to work.

But behind the scenes, the fun and craziness was non-stop. Take for example, our poor production manager, trying to get a clean take down on tape when a major client came in to voice his own ads.......

Listen to Just an average day in the 4BK Production Studio by 4BK Radio Memories on

Being an advertiser on Brisbane's top rating breakfast show could test your patience, as Phil Pope from Flag Ford found out one day, when he went in to the studios to record a new ad....... only to ha

30/05/2026

I saw for the first time today, an AI service which for a monthly fee, will make up posts for pages to save the page owner from having to create them or even think about it. All in the interests of clicks and ad revenue.

With the insidious creep of AI into our daily lives in my mind and a deep personal desire to avoid it at all costs, I want to tell you that 4BK Radio Memories will never be one of those pages. My pledge to you all. Thank you. Enjoy your weekend.
Oh, by the way, Retro Stream is on fire with an all 60's music weekend you might want to catch. Find it on most music streaming platforms.

28/05/2026

Always something to celebrate at the Paniyiri. Like me I hope you have fond memories of this annual Brisbane event.

27/05/2026

He was the voice we all waited to hear each weekend, all the way from the USA.

One of my favourite memories from my early years in radio around country Queensland was playing Casey Kasem's American Top 40 off LP records on weekends.

Here's a trip down memory lane for those of you who lived and breathed pop music through the 70's and 80's.

Originally broadcast New Year's Eve 1979 on WPGC Morningside / Wash...