Bill Armstrong AM, the pioneering Australian recording engineer, studio owner, producer and broadcaster who helped establish the country’s modern recording industry and was a founder and managing director of Melbourne’s EON-FM, has died aged 97. At its peak, Armstrong Studios was credited with recording a substantial proportion of the Australian commercial music charts. He was also part of the consortium that successfully applied for one of Melbourne’s first commercial FM radio licences. EON-FM was Australia’s first commercial FM radio station, beating Fox FM to air by two weeks. In 1995 he received the Advance Australia Award, the Audio Engineering Society Australian chapter Lifetime Achievement Award and an Australian Sound Recording Association award for outstanding service to the Australian recording industry.