More stations need to provide a ‘Listen Again’ service, though it is a bit labour intensive if you archive programmes in house (as I do). Nobody has the time or inclination to listen live at a set time these days.
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Omny Studio is one product which automates this. You can setup your program schedule, and it will record and publish each show automatically. You could also send triggers to start/stop recordings if you wanted to be fancy.
Once the full shows are in there, you can also use their web editor to create shorter clips.
CBAA can get community stations good pricing for Omny Studio. Quite a lot of stations have taken up this offer.
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Yes I have asked about this but being a small station, we’d rather keep costs down where we can. Plus it keeps me out of mischief 
Some of our programmes have a tendency to run past their allotted time as well, mainly at night when there’s no news/live programming to follow.
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ALERT: Some weird stuff is happening at the moment with 2NBC 90.1 FM Narwee, apparently there’s buzzing noises with dead air, then the first few seconds of some songs. Their online feed is also getting this.
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Let’s see if they fund anything that isn’t just virtue signalling.
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I only caught the last 20minutes of this program of 88.9 2RSR this morning, but the speaker on today’s broadcast (10am - 11am Thursday’s edition) of Alternative Radio was absolutely captivating, simulative & brilliant. The speaker was Brian Klaas on the topic of: ‘The Wrong People At The Top’
You can find the broadcast here:
Worth the $5 to download an audio copy.
@crankymedia you might enjoy this audio file.
https://radioskidrow.org/programs/
Also: ABOUT — BRIAN KLAAS
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Vision Australia Radio (2APH) Albury seems to have been off air since at least this morning- not sure of the cause though as 2REM and The Light from the same site are on air with no issues.
Edit: back on air today (27th)
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89.9 TheLight playing Tuesday’s news and weather 7am.
Maybe they are thinking their Christmasses are all coming at once ?!
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Finally got around to searching again what happened to 6EBA FM here in Perth. Looks like nobody knows, all I could find is this Reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/perth/comments/1gily6e/what_happened_to_6eba_953fm/
All I know is that the 6EBA FM 95.3fm station is gone, no longer transmitting. Only a ghost 6EBA on DAB+ exists as a silent station. It has been like this for several months but looks like it had so few listeners, it quietly disappeared. Not even the ACMA is aware (otherwise it would surely be removed from DAB+ and surrender the precious bits to other stations given how crowded the Perth commercial DAB+ multiplex is).
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Licence expired December 10th - I’d say the ACMA knows what’s going on.
Interesting note in here too (although probably a moot point given the circumstances)
Advisory Notes applying to Station 1
The ACMA understands that this service is being transmitted from an antenna height of 116 m which exceeds the LAP specification of 30m. Regulatory Forbearance is exercised in not taking compliance action while the ACMA considers varying the LAP specification.
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Interesting, thanks… wonder if 95.3 will be reallocated to another community licensee or if it will form part of the frequencies used in the AM conversion exercise.
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Their report investigating a different breach says 10 Dec 2025 - https://www.acma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-06/BI-609%206EBA%20Investigation%20Report%20(Publication%20version).pdf
Perhaps that’s the difference between the license and the apparatus license? But that wouldn’t explain DAB not being operational.
They should reallocate the frequency to ABC Local Radio and just get that sorted.
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Just checked the 6EBA World Radio DAB+ station and although silent it still has programming information (hilarious) but transmitting using 24 kbps. When I checked the other Community stations, three were on 48 kbps, one on 32 kbps. Wasn’t the original allocation to community stations 64 kbps?
You mean the Perth FM replanning exercise? This change is a definitely a good excuse for the ACMA to delay that even more (maybe they are hoping it will go away since they can’t seem to decide?).
ABC Local Radio can’t access this as they are on the ABC/SBS DAB multiplex.
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Yes, sorry.
Forgot to mention Sonshine FM on 40 kbps and fellow station Sonshine Extra on 32 kbps. Looks a fair bit of kbps trading happening between the community stations (and I am sure commercial stations).
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I was talking about their FM allocation.
They should just spread the DAB around between the other community stations.
Nope, there wasn’t the space in Perth to allow that. Community get 2/9ths of the Category 1 multiplex license regardless of the actual count of stations, with no direct entitlement to any of that slice.
That’s often called “256kbps” but it’s really 192 CU (Capacity Units) - which translate to net bit rate differently per the error correction rate used, you can trade off having lower error correction for more bits. 3A is the standard that the “256kbps” is based on.
Only certain splits are technically possible - so you couldn’t divide between Perth’s community stations fairly (other than leaving excess vacant), but the actual outcome is certainly not equal. So this is the setup in Perth:
| CurtinDG | 48kbps | 36CU EEP-3A | |
| Capital Digital | 48kbps | 36CU EEP-3A | |
| VA Radio Perth | 32kbps | 16CU EEP-4A | |
| VA IRIS Perth | 32kbps | 16CU EEP-4A | |
| Noongar Radio | 32kbps | 16CU EEP-4A | |
| RTRFM 92.1 | 48kbps | 24CU EEP-4A | |
| 6EBA World Radio | 24kbps | 12CU EEP-4A | |
| Sonshine | 40kbps | 20CU EEP-4A | |
| Sonshine Extra | 32kbps | 16CU EEP-4A |
So similar to other cities, I think the stations in a better financial position seem to take a bigger slice in turn for sharing more of the costs of being on digital. Curtin, Capital and Sonshine all have 36CU worth - though Sonshine split theirs into two stations by using the lower protection level.
RTR is close to what the even split would have been (24 vs ~27), but then Noongar and 6EBA are given so much less than the others.
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Well the space has already been allocated for this since 2021, the extra 95.3 I am sure will complicate things, new commercial FM station … OMG moment (for the “incumbents”), definite no brainer now to move 6iX and 6PR to FM with the new availability … oh dear (for the incumbents). The ACMA is paralysed with indecision/fear so we should not expect anything to happen with Perth radio be it on AM, FM or DAB+ for another decade or so.
Forgot about 6RPH (a.k.a Vision Australia), but why have two stations carrying the same programming? At least Sonshine have two distinct stations in terms of programming styles.
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It’s not clear on the website, but I believe 6RPH has local programming for some hours during the day and IRIS is networked all the time.
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