This morning on Triple M Melbourne, Dangerous Dave Williams was joined on-air by joined by retired radio icon Lee Simon as they paid their respects to pioneering radio executive Bill Armstrong, following his death at the age of 97. In 1979, Armstrong headed up a consortium to establish Melbourne’s EON FM – Australia’s first commercial FM radio station which we now know as Triple M 105.1. Simon – who had a long association with Armstrong – revealed a particularly interesting fact about the man who helped shape an extraordinary period of radio:“Everybody knew about Bill. He’s been a part of the music and recording and radio industry since his notable beginning as the man who was in charge of the PA system at the MCG during the 1956 Olympic Games.”