Surf City Sound
| City | Seaford, Victoria |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | City of Frankston and City of Casey |
| Branding | Surf FM |
| Slogan | Frankston and Casey's Local Radio Station |
| Frequency | 87.6 MHz |
| Repeater(s) |
87.6 MHz Berwick 87.6 MHz Cranbourne 87.6 MHz Doveton |
| First air date | 1 October 2001 |
| Format | Hot AC |
| Class | Narrowcast |
| Owner | Ian Wood & Justin Christie |
| Website | surffm |
| City | Werribee South, Victoria |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Melbourne |
| Branding | Surf City Sound (12.00 to 14.00 Mon-Fri) |
| Frequency | 1674 kHz |
| First air date | 23 December 2011 |
| Format | Adult contemporary |
| Class | Narrowband |
| Owner | Justin Christie |
| Sister stations |
Radio Haanji (timeshare) Surf FM |
Surf FM is a narrowcast radio station broadcasting to the City of Frankston and City of Casey in Melbourne's outer south east. The station broadcasts a Hot adult contemporary format on 87.6FM from low powered transmitters in Seaford, Cranbourne, Berwick and Doveton.
Surf FM first switched on its Frankston transmitter on 1 October 2001. The name Surf FM was chosen to identify as closely as possible with being located in a bayside city. It was also selected to distinguish the brand from other names used by various coastal radio stations across Australia, such as Sea FM, Bay FM, Wave FM and Coast FM. Soon after the station commenced, some live programming launched, presented by a team of young adults programming a youth-oriented dance music format.
The team disbanded by mid-2003 and Surf FM experienced a quiet period when it was not always on the air. Activity was revived in 2005, when national dance network Raw FM installed a satellite dish on the roof of the Surf FM studios to coincide with a national tour of outside beach broadcasts. For a period of time Surf FM would relay Raw FM's programming to make use of the satellite feed and fill airtime.
In August 2007, Cranbourne resident Ian Wood joined Frankston resident Justin Christie as a co-owner of the radio station and soon after a second licence was purchased. It took about 14 months to secure transmitter site approvals and install broadcast equipment at the new site in Cranbourne. Surf FM relaunched as a networked radio station on 16 December 2008 when it switched on its Cranbourne transmitter.
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