All you need to know about sponsorship rules in Community Radio are in this ACMA guidance document: https://www.acma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-06/Community-Broadcasting-Sponsorship-Guidelines-2008.pdf
ACMA and the Act place no restrictions on the types of business that can sponsor a station. Why would they?
Worth mentioning the codes (new version in force from tomorrow) say helpful things like “Sponsorship will not be a factor in deciding who can access broadcasting time.”
“The key feature of a sponsorship announcement is its acknowledgment of the financial or in-kind support given by a sponsor to a community broadcasting licensee or a program provided under the service. The announcement may also promote the activities, events, products, services or programs of
the sponsor, provided that it contains an acknowledgment of financial or in-kind support by
the sponsor of the licensee or a program.”
So reading between the lines it seems like the actual situation is:
I have no issues with big corporations spending money with community stations - better that than always having a hand out for government grants all the time.
i don’t have a problem with that and it’s something that’s been going on for years
Harvey Norman ads are also heard on 2NUR 103.7 Newcastle. Sometimes even on 101.5 FM Moreton Bay.
Sean Craig Murphy the new CD at Adelaide’s Fresh 92.7
Murphy takes up this new role a few months after hosting his final shift on SAFM taking over the reins from Sophie Campbell, who departed in May to begin a new gig as Senior Podcast Producer at Mamamia.
Since I haven’t seen a map of the sub-metro community radio licences in Sydney, I thought I’d put one together myself.
The red outline is the main Sydney RA1 and the red dots are the transmitter sites.
It’s interesting to see the overlaps and that there’s one part of Sydney in the north west that doesn’t have a sub-metro station licence (although by my analysis of ABS Census data, this area has a population of under 10,000 people).
Nice map! I like it!
Radio listeners are in for a change as a long-running community station scales back its regional news programming.
Tamworth’s 88.9FM is dropping its Regional News segment and its presenter, Daniel Pizarro, who was hired to run the twice-a-day news bulletin in June last year.
Station CEO George Frame says it’s a sign of the times.
This is a shame - and a shame that Daniel is out of a gig - hope you pick something up soon!
An interesting comment later in that article:
Mr Frame says the morning broadcast hosted by Matt ‘Macca’ MacCarthy “rates very well”.
I assume 88.9 has run their own ratings?
So sorry to hear you got ousted by Tamworth 88.9FM @DJPizarro. Hope everything’s going well for you. 
Interesting. That area should be in the Hills Shire LGA, which I thought was covered in its entirety by Parramatta RA1. But maybe it isn’t.
How’d you compile the map? Did you go through the LAPs and find KMZ files for all the ABS Collection Districts?
Thanks mate. Not a easy time admittedly.
I love a good map and this surely delivers!
The greatest potential for adjacent channel interference is likely in the Castle Hill/Dural area, where only a slim portion of the 2CCR licence area separates 2SWR and 2HHH. I know an avid SWR listener in the SW part of the 2HHH licence area sometimes cops splatter.
On 2HHH, the signal would be pretty non existent in a few of those areas way out in the boonies like Laughtondale and the lower reaches of Canoelands. Likewise with The Hawk and areas around Colo. I believe the Hawkesbury LGA extends even further north up towards Mellong on Putty Road, but this is evidently outside of the licence area shown.
There was a precompiled file from the ACMA with all of the licence areas in it.
Obviously a paid position, Fresh are doing well for themselves they can pay for quite a few employees but they are really pushing that 5 minutes of sponorships per hour. I wouldn’t be surprised if they breach that with the amount of talking and voice tracking they insert between every small bit of music they play.
Sean Craig Murphy did do some airtime in the very early days of Fresh, it was so strange hearing a voice from SA-FM on Fresh back then.
Still on the subject of Fresh, from Radio Today:
Record breaking community listener survey result for Adelaide’s Fresh 92.7
Fresh continues to dominate the local community radio market, growing its weekly audience to 217,000 – an increase of 5,000. The station saw increases in every shift across the day – and in every key demographic under 54 years of age.
Fresh is riding the crest of a wave right now, with its 27th Birthday Party featuring ‘Grove Terminator’ selling out in just two weeks.
Trailblazing Melbourne community radio station 3MBS 103.5FM is reflecting on its glorious history as it celebrates its 50th birthday this month.
One of Australia’s very first community broadcasters, the fine music station had humble beginnings, initially going to air in 1975 from a suburban flat, the walls of which were so thin, sometimes the flushing of the toilet could be heard on air.
Connect FM Bankstown is open carrier at the moment. No RDS either.
Probably the high strength winds have knocked their STL off the air. 
Weak Sky Sports Radio Bathurst underneath.
Jumped in the car and was quite frankly shocked to hear We Believe by the newsboys on Inspire.
Given the Allegations about the former lead singer who sang this song (which he has confirmed) it should have been yanked very quickly from airplay but 2 weeks on and it’s still on air?
