Arnold Frolows
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Arnold Frolows (15 January 1950 – 12 January 2025) was an Australian radio personality best known as music director at the Australian radio station triple j.<ref name="death">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="old">Template:Cite web</ref>
Life and career
Frolows started his career in music in 1970, as a manager of Virgin record stores in London.Template:Citation needed
After returning to Australia in late 1974 he was hired as one of the foundation staff of Double Jay in Sydney, which began broadcasting in January 1975. He managed the record library and programming of the station. He temporarily returned to the United Kingdom where he was, among other things, head of A&R, at Virgin Records UK.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 1983, he re-joined triple j, where he took on the role of music director, a position that he held until his retirement from the station in 2003. During this time he also hosted Ambience, a program focussing on ambient music until the late 1980s. During his last few years at the station, he was criticised in the music media as being "too old" to work at a youth station.<ref name="old"/>
After leaving Triple J, Frolows remained with the ABC to become a programmer and music director at the new digital radio station ABC DiG,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and ABC JAZZ.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Frolows died at Mona Vale Hospice in Sydney, on 12 January 2025, at the age of 74, less than a month after having been diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer.<ref name="death"/>
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External links
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