This article refers to the Radio 2 in Australia. For the BBC's Radio 2 see BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult Contemporary or AOR, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres...

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Radio 2 was an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

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Radio network

There are two types of radio networks currently in use around the world: the one-to-many broadcast type commonly used for public information and mass media entertainment; and the two-way type used more commonly for public safety and public services such as police, fire, taxicabs, and delivery...

 transmitting via a series of 50 AM

AM broadcasting

AM broadcasting is the process of radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation. AM was the first method of impressing sound on a radio signal and is still widely used today. Commercial and public AM broadcasting is carried out in the medium wave band world wide, and on long wave and short wave...

 stations throughout Australia, operating on frequencies above 1602 kHz

Hertz

The hertz is the SI unit of frequency defined as the number of cycles per second of a periodic phenomenon. One of its most common uses is the description of the sine wave, particularly those used in radio and audio applications....

. Radio 2 also transmitted via pay television audio services on Austar

Austar

Austar is an Australian telecommunications company. Its main business activity is Subscription Television but it is also involved with internet access and mobile phones...

 and Foxtel

Foxtel

Foxtel is an Australian pay television company, operating cable, direct broadcast satellite television and IPTV services. It was formed in 1995 through a joint venture established between Telstra and News Corporation....

, on the WorldSpace

WorldSpace

1worldspace, formerly known as 'WorldSpace', is a currently defunct satellite radio network that provided service to over 170,000 subscribers in eastern and southern Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia with 96% coming from India...

 service, via the AsiaStar

AsiaStar

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Satellite

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, and also via its website.

The legal remains of Radio 2 are owned by WorldAudio Limited . While operational, it was based at Sydney Olympic Park

Sydney Olympic Park

Sydney Olympic Park is a suburb in western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Sydney Olympic Park is located 16 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Auburn Council....

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Technical limitations

Radio 2's AM services had different licence conditions to most Australian AM stations. These meant that the transmitters were often outside their intended target area, some frequencies they used could not be received by many radios, and they had poorer sound quality than normal AM stations.

Radio 2 in Administration

A trading halt on the Australian Stock Exchange on 16 March 2006 was followed by an announcement on 21 March 2006 that Administrators had been appointed to the company. The Administrators had halted all personality broadcasting and replaced it with 24 hours/day music and sought expressions of interest in purchasing the entire network as a primary objective and if this was not possible the sale of parts of the network to different buyers.

Closure of Radio 2

The website for Radio 2 stated on Tuesday 25 July 2006:
Radio 2 temporarily ceased broadcasting as of Friday, 21 July 2006. Broadcasting on the WorldAudio Groups Licences will resume at Christmas 2006. Administrators Hall Chadwick are selling off World Audio's Radio 2's studio equipment at auction.
With the sale of the equipment from the former Radio 2 studio centre, the most recent update as of 15 September 2006, the websites for Radio 2, and its parent entity World Audio ceased to be posted. There has been discussion on the radio industry related news groups that a new national country music format may be established on the former Radio 2 radio transmission network.

Sale of frequencies

The licences and transmission sites formerly used by World Audio are still at this time in the hands of the Administrator, and expressions of interest are being received for the potential sale or lease of these licences and transmitter sites