“Why haven’t you returned my calls?” Wave FM’s Crammy confronts local hero

23 May 2025 Crammy from the Lyndal & Crammy Breakfast Show on Wave FM 96.5 has a long-standing relationship with mixed martial arts champion Alex Volkanovski …Or, more accurately, a lack of one. And it’s very one-sided.Crammy has unashamedly been messaging and calling Alex for weeks, with no response.Last night Alex – Wollongong’s world champion – was officially… Read More

Mel gets her wish granted for Mothers Day with Lyndal and Crammy’s Reunite Flight

11 May 2025 Lyndal and Crammy from Wave FM in Wollongong have been running a Reunite Flight promotion where people were able to, ahead of Mothers Day, share...

Megan Hui Waves KIIS goodbye

27 April 2025 "KIIS ya later, hello Wave!" Two and half years after graduating from the Australian Film Television & Radio School (AFTRS) and immediately landing her dream...

Wave FM’s Crammy recreates Robert Irwin’s Bonds commercial for the everyday Illawarra man

15 April 2025 After seeing Robert Irwin’s Bonds photo shoot, 96.5 Wave FM Breakfast host Crammy was of the opinion that these photos don’t reflect the everyday man.So, encouraged by his co-host Lyndal, Crammy recently took part in his own Bonds photoshoot – aimed at representing the ‘Everyday Illawarra Man’.New Breakfast EP Nerdy Nate even managed to track… Read More

Wave FM’s whirlwind Wollongong wedding

14 February 2025 This morning to celebrate Valentine's Day on 96.5 Wave FM, Travis and Lee from Albion Park Rail got married. But that's not the half of...

Marty Haynes steps back from i98 FM Breakfast

16 December 2024 After thirty years of breakfast radio, and two decades waking up the Illawarra, i98 FM’s Marty Haynes, will step back from those early starts in...

Another breakfast team loss for radio as Jade and Damien leave Wave FM

6 December 2024 Another surprise announcement this morning as the Illawarra's Wave FM 96.5 breakfast duo of Jade Tonta and Damien Leith announced that they are finishing up next Tuesday December 10.

i98 FM on top and local radio the winner in Wollongong – Xtra Insights

8 November 2024 i98 FM is on top in Wollongong and Wave FM second in the latest Xtra Insights survey of Wollongong. The biggest winner of all is...

Great friends at Wave FM

24 September 2024 A little sprinkle of nostalgia and fun from Wave FM 96.5 as they marked the 30th anniversary of TV show Friends with their own recreation...

Wave FM mourns Madison Noronha

21 May 2024 Madison Noronha (Chatham), a Campaign Design specialist for ARN and Wave FM 96.5, had just gotten married and was in the Netherlands on her honeymoon...

Gareth Thomson: Riding the Wave of AFTRS success

15 November 2023 It was during his primary school days that Gareth Thomson first had an inkling that a broadcasting career might be on the cards for him.“My friends and I made up a fake TV station,” he chuckles. “That’s when I knew there was a certain inevitability to it.”Today, as a graduate student at Australian Film Television… Read More

i98 on top in the Illawarra – Xtra Insights

31 October 2023 Since the last Xtra Insights survey of Wollongong eighteen months ago little has changed. Local stations i98 FM, Wave FM and ABC Illawarra are still...

New moves mean new opportunities open up at Wave FM in the Illawarra

5 November 2021 Summer has arrived early in The Illawarra with the locals set to enjoy some great radio conditions from Monday November 8th. 96.5 Wave FM will...

Wave FM on the crest of a three year plan to roll to the top

19 July 2021 Wave FM in the Illawarra are dropping Kate Tim & Joel and adding their own locally produced drive program. In something of a coup, Wave FM have enticed...

i98FM has a new breakfast show and the hunt is on for a new co-host

19 July 2021 i98FM will be launching a brand new Breakfast Show in Spring 2021 as Crammy and Lyndal move on to another project, hosting drive at Wave...

Crammy and Lyndal Wave goodbye to i98FM

19 July 2021 Ryan Cram and Lyndal Rogers will host a new local Illawarra drive show on 96.5 Wave FM 3pm – 7pm weekdays. Grant Broadcasters Group Content Director,...

AFTRS Alumni are on the move

28 February 2021 Grant Maling, a Bidjigal man from LaPerouse Sydney, and AFTRS Graduate Diploma Radio class 2018, has just been promoted from Power FM Muswellbrook, to Workday Announcer...

Meshel Laurie is back onair at Wave FM

1 February 2021 The doctors have called it...Jade from Wave FM's Jade, Straney & Damien Leith is officially on maternity leave, and keeping her chair warm is Meshel...

Mel Greig is heading back to the bright lights

24 July 2018 No more early mornings for Mel Greig, instead a move to Sydney and a fresh new opportunity. Mel said goodbye to her WAVE FM listeners...

The ACRA nominee who has been in radio since he was 9

16 September 2016 Most people who submit an ACRA entry dream of a nomination, for 96.5 WAVE FM's Chris Sewell he's been nominated for six in 2016 for...