Triple M Perth (official

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: 6MMM) is a

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station owned and operated by

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as part of the

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network. The station is broadcast to

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, Western Australia from studios in Subiaco. The station commenced broadcasting in 1937 as 6PM, initially on the

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at a frequency of 1000

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, before converting to the

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as 6PM-FM on 31 December 1990. The station was later branded as PMFM, The All New 92.9, 92.9 and Hit 92.9. On 1 December 2020, the station was relaunched as Triple M, switching network affiliation with sister station

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History

92.9 was originally 6PM on the

, beginning broadcasting on 22 April 1937 making it the third commercial radio station in Perth. Originally broadcasting from a radio mast in

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, the station moved its transmission mast to Coffee Point in South Perth in 1940 to give better reception to listeners north of Perth. By the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, it broadcast a

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format on 1000, later 990

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. The station secured significant listener market (

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) share despite a rival station ( 96FM) gaining a monopoly on the FM band in the 1980s. On 31 December 1990, the station was one of two additional Perth radio stations to gain a licence to convert to the

. They became 92.9 6PM-FM; then subsequently PMFM. The official

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was changed to 6PPM for regulatory purposes to reflect the move to FM. During most of the 1990s PMFM was Perth's number one radio station. 2001 saw PMFM change their name to The All New 92.9, and then to just 92.9. In February 2006, 92.9 changed its logo in line with the rest of the

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. In 2007 92.9 and sister station Mix 94.5 moved to a new purpose-built building at 450 Roberts Road, Subiaco. On 19 January 2015, Southern Cross Austereo rebranded 92.9 as Hit 92.9. On 1 December 2020, Hit 92.9 relaunched as Triple M Perth, joining the

network and adopting a

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music format. The

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affiliation was switched to sister station

. The station was officially launched at 8:00am with a welcome message from

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frontman

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, with " All My Life" being the first song played on the newly relaunched station. The station later announced that Channel 7 broadcaster and Perth Lord Mayor

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would host the station's breakfast program, along with former AFL footballer

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and ''

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'' columnist Jenna Clarke from 2021. Ellis has remained on the breakfast show and , co-hosts it with Katie Lamb on ''Breakfast with Xav and Katie''. The station since 2025 airs the Melbourne produced The Rush Hour with JB and Billy which replaced a local version of the Rush Hour brand that was co-hosted by Lamb and former AFL footballer

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Transmission

Since being on the FM band, the 92.9 station has broadcast from a transmitter site next to the Channel 7 tower from

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in the

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. It shares its transmitter with sister station

and 96FM. They use a combiner and share the same antenna array. The Bickley site is redundant now and the main site is at

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into the same antenna array as

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and Mix 94.5. The original AM transmitter for 6PM was at Coffee Point in

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. The ERP is at 40 kW, covering the north and south of Perth. As well as covering Perth, Triple M Perth can be heard as far north as

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, south to Waroona and east to Northam.

Digital radio

Triple M Perth is simulcast on

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in Perth. 92.9 launched Choose The Hits Jelli, a station only broadcast on

, was launched on 1 February 2010, and closed on 26 May 2010.

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{{Perth radio Radio stations in Perth, Western Australia Radio stations established in 1937 Mainstream rock radio stations in Australia 1937 establishments in Australia

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