| Radio 97 | |
| City: | Murwillumbah |
| Area: | Murwillumbah/Tweed Heads/Gold Coast |
| Branding: | Radio 97 |
| Frequency: | 972 kHz AM |
| Translator: | 103.5 MHz FM Mullumbimby 104.1 MHz FM Currumbin |
| Language: | English |
| Power: | 5 kW[1] |
| Affiliations: | Super Radio Network |
| Owner: | Broadcast Operations Group |
| Licensee: | Tweed Radio & Broadcasting Co Pty Ltd |
2MW, better known as Radio 97, is an Australian radio station serving the Murwillumbah region. It was opened in September 1937.[2]
Radio 97 owners, Broadcast Operations Group, have often been accused of a reluctance to pay experienced staff in order to cut operating costs.[3]
In September 2009, Broadcast Operations Group was found to have underpaid a journalist and has been ordered to make a $10,000 backpayment. The journalist, who was studying communications at a Gold Coast university, worked part-time over a two-year period in the newsroom for Radio 97 was graded as a cadet. The Fair Work Ombudsman found that the Journalist was performing tasks that would normally be given to a Grade 1, Band 1 journalist under the Commercial Radio Journalists Award.