2LF

2LF is an Australian radio station serving the Young region. It was opened in February 1938. The LF stands for Lambing Flats and broadcasts on the AM dial on 1350 kiloHertz and a power of 5 kilowatts, more than double the power of neighbouring radio stations 2WG Wagga Wagga, 2GN Goulburn, 2PK Parkes and even 2CC and 2CA, both in Canberra that all broadcast with a power of 2 kilowatts. This may be due to 2LF having to serve as its core audience, three towns, Young, Cowra and Cootamundra and a stronger signal is needed to adequately service those areas in varying heights about sea level. Many famous names in Australian broadcasting and television either began their career at 2LF or worked there during their career. These people include: Ken Sutcliffe and Ray "Rabbits" Warren both from Channel Nine Sydney. One of the most well known names in 2LF history is Graeme 'Cabbage' McDonald. Cabbage hosted network country music programs from 2LF studios to several stations across New South Wales well before the satellite era began. Cabbage was also a salesman and years later became manager. 2LF only became a 24 hour radio service in the late 1980's. Prior to this it finished broadcasting for the day after the midnight news and resumed with a test broadcast after 5am (which involved playing an album) before officially starting with the national anthem leading into the 5:30am news. When 2LF went "24 hours" it took programming from the co-owned 2WG Wagga Wagga with the on air branding of 2WG2LF. 2WG itself took overnight satellite music programming from 2UW in Sydney which at that time provided radio network services to about 80 stations nationally.