Considering some of the rhetoric and extreme happy clapper views on Vision. Maybe it should be shut down altogether… That would free up alot of licences, and at the same time prevent some poor misguided soul from being corrupted by it.
I found out local outlet and listened for 5 minutes the other day… It is definately screams Cult vibes.
so you want to censor views you don’t agree with? what do you think this is - Maoist China? what they are saying is legal. we can’t shut down media outlets because we do not agree with what they are saying
Yeah but churches (particularly Hillsong) are brainwashing cults so I endorse silencing religious broadcasters which are glorified commercial stations running tax free.
Exactly… this kind of delusional crap should be censored, there are gullible people in society and if anything, it will save the them from themselves becoming a member of the church cult
Even though I personally find its content repellent, Vision has a right to exist. I just think its service could be transmitted far more efficiently as per suggestions made by others in this threadviz. DAB+ multiplexer space, FM LPONs being handed back in exchange for AM HPON licences etc.
As I said earlier, freeing up FM LPONs would open up opportunities for suitably motivated individuals to do something more creative with them. Or they could be bought up by an even more hilarious cult than the Seventh Day Adventists or whoever owns Vision.
I agree there. Community radio stations operating under a specialist religious licence (such as the Alives and Life FMs of the world) really need to stop LARPing as mainstream commercial CHR/Hot AC and go back to being unambiguously religious. For all of Vision’s faults, there’s no mistaking it for anything other than evangelical Christian radio.
I don’t think any one particular church (such as Hillsong) are behind any of the high power city-wide FM community licenses held by the metro Christian stations though.
There would be a mix of people on those community radio boards with all sorts of different faith backgrounds I assume so it’s not fair to say all these community radio stations are brainwashing cults.
I guess the issue with comparing the likes of Hope with Vision is that they’re on different types of licences.
The stuff that Hope and other metro Christian stations put on, I agree, wouldn’t cut it on an open narrowcast licence - you couldn’t call it “limited interest”. Hence why the likes of Vision Christian Radio would have to stick to predominantly “evangelising”.
A community licence merely needs to serve the needs of their intended community (on a non-profit basis - something not required of a narrowcaster), and encourage those in that community to be involved in its participation. If they can prove that being mostly “clean, family-friendly” AC meets the needs of their community (and who is going to say no?) and the participation requirement is met (I don’t know how often they promote it on air, but an association membership form is on their site and there are of course other ways to do membership drives) - the ACMA is not going to stop them.
And I suspect that, in the case of Hope, a claim of a weekly cume of about 300k - which would put them in the leagues of ABC Classic (and I suspect the length of time they’d listen to it would be similar if not more, so let’s say a share of 2.something, maybe 3%) would suggest it’s meeting their needs - which yes, like it or not, is a “mission” to spread the Christian message, and they’re probably meeting those goals better than, say, Radio Maria.
I should disclaim that - no, it’s definitely not my cup of tea either (the religion or the station), and yeah, the fact that the AC format melds in with the “contemporary Christian” stuff that would come out of modern “worship bands” (of the likes of Hillsong and C3 and elsewhere) would make people like myself grumble - but I can’t see how they’re breaking any rules on a community licence. If that’s how their community of interest wants to be served - there’s not much that can be done about that, short of the ACMA declaring that it’s no longer a valid “community interest” - and that’s not going to happen in my lifetime.
2GLF have now resolved the overmodulation issue. 
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Hi Everyone,
I am having issues with ALL the community stations in South Australia on the DAB where the signal is glitchy (as if it is dropping every half second). This issue apparent on my Richter portable radio but not on my Altronics A2704B. Does anyone else have this issue?
Have you tried turning it off and on again, it might be your radio.
One from the vault and a rare example of a local community radio station advertising on television. I remember this ad from my childhood and was only screened during afternoon kids shows on ATN7. 2 RRR 88.5 FM RADIO STATION (1986) - TV Ad - YouTube
Source: TV Vault Australia (YouTube)
I think Coast FM have advertised on 9NBN Central Coast in recent years… but yes, it’s rare to see community radio advertise on TV.
My friend has the same radio and it also has the same issue with community stations.
I have asked the techs is SA are there any known issues with DAB community stations for you, I’ll let you know if they come back to me with anything.
Edit: now I know who you are (kind of), I’m trialling ours in Sydney & Melbourne & will report back what we find to the boss man, & I guess I didn’t really need to ask the SA team did I.
Moreton Bay radio 101.5 FM seems to be operating at reduced power. Can still be received at my location but signal strength is way down.
Appears Switch Brisbane is off-air on 1197AM this evening and their DAB+ station is broadcasting blank audio as well. Anyone know what might be up?
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