3CR is an AM station.
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Problems at 4EBI this morning - running a breakdown tape. âWe will return you to normal program as soon as possible.â
Radio Skid Row breaches community participation rules
Sydney-based community broadcaster Radio Skid Row 88.9FM has breached community participation rules in the Broadcasting Services Act 1992, following the dismissal of a volunteer presenter.
An Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) investigation found that the station failed to follow its own disciplinary procedure when it dismissed the presenter without giving the person clear reasons for the dismissal or offering them a right of appeal.
The ACMA found that the content of Radio Skid Rowâs policies and procedures did not restrict participation on political or cultural grounds. However, the stationâs failure to follow its disciplinary procedure left the presenter believing they were dismissed for their political and cultural views.
The ACMA found that the presenterâs dismissal also contributed to a broader perception that there were barriers to participation within the station based on political and cultural beliefs.
A second investigation into complaints about Radio Skid Rowâs on-air content did not find breaches of the community broadcasting codes of practice.
Authority Member Carolyn Lidgerwood said that community radio plays a unique and important role contributing to an inclusive, cohesive and diverse Australian society.
âIn this role, community radio stations also have a responsibility to encourage broad participation from the communities they serve. This is particularly important when the community radio station is serving a wide and diverse community such as Radio Skid Row is,â Ms Lidgerwood said.
âWhen stations fail to follow their own disciplinary procedures, it can create barriers to participation and discourage community involvement. This is the opposite of what community broadcasting is intended to achieve.â
Radio Skid Row has accepted the ACMAâs findings and taken steps to improve its processes around disciplinary action and people management. The station has utilised Fair Work resources to improve the way it manages members and volunteers, reviewed its policies and procedures to make them clearer, and clarified the programming committeeâs role in managing conflicts.
The station will also implement training on policies and procedures for all new and existing volunteers and members and train its board members and management on risk, psychosocial hazards and privacy obligations.
Radio Skid Row has agreed to provide the ACMA with reports on its progress on implementing these measures and also to report to the ACMA about any disciplinary actions it takes in 2026 and 2027.
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27 hours non-stop: Fresh 92.7âs Tom & Callum prepare to rewrite the record books for Radiothon
Fresh 92.7 Adelaide Breakfast duo Tom & Callum are rewriting the record books this week, delivering a Radiothon with a difference.
From 7am this Wednesday until 10am Thursday on Fresh 92.7, the boys will be doing something no Breakfast radio show has ever done before â broadcasting for 27 hours in a row.
Itâs all part of stationâs quest to raise $50,000 to upgrade the Fresh App and update the Fresh website.
Listeners who donate are invited to come up with challenges for the boys to do. And theyâll do almost anything if the price is right.
A $5000 donation, for example, will get your logo or name tattooed on Tom or Callumâs arm.
For 5K, the station will even be renamed after someoneâs girlfriend, mum or business for the day.
A $20 donation gets a 10 second on-air shoutout from the boys. A $100 donation gets the donorâs name mentioned every time Fresh 92.7 plays a song you sponsor.
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Um, something no breakfast radio show has ever done before? Shouldâve brushed up on history first. Rewind 2 years, and Fifi, Fev & Nick on Fox FM in Melbourne were broadcasting for 27 hours straight. As a result, their show has broken a Guinness World Record.
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Two senior staff members from a Sydney community radio station that sacked a Jewish host after she refused to support Hamas have resigned from their roles.
Media regulator Australian Communications Media Authority (ACMA) on Monday published its findings that the heavily taxpayer-funded station breached the Broadcasting Services Act in its treatment of Nicole.
But in an astonishing move, the station used its public acknowledgment of the findings to lash out at the âattempted silencingâ over the âgenocideâ in Gaza â and make what a Jewish community leader has called a âflippant and insultingâ reference to Nicoleâs discriminatory treatment on Facebook.
Sky News has confirmed Radio Skid Row manager Manu Monteiro and sponsorship co-ordinator Ilhan Abdi resigned following our reports which exposed their treatment of Nicole during a formal meeting.
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I guess that explains 2RSRâs previous RDS RT message:
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Have Pulse 94.1 Wollongong gone quasi commercial?
I think Iâve been hearing more non Christian music tonight than I used to eg.
Six Months In A Leaky Boat - Split Enz
The Emperors New Clothes - Sinead OâConnor
Little Miss Canât Be Wrong - Two Princes
Ainât nobody gonna bow no more when you sound that Wollon-gong!
Theyâve always been close to 50/50 secular and Christian Contemporary but maybe that balance has shifted slightly in the direction of the heathens. One station that is almost totally secular now is 103.1 Loving Life FM Grafton.
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Blu FM seems to be off-air. Getting RN South Western Slopes fading in and out instead.
Radio Skid Row seems to have the phase inverted on one audio channel - more noticable when music is playing (similar to the issue that some of the TEF servers was having).
Edit: Blu FM back on air now when I checked at 12:30
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Trouble ahead for community radio station 2SER as Macquarie University looks to cut funding
In another kick to the arts sector and entryways to audio and journalism careers, it appears that Macquarie University has pulled its funding from 2SER. The community radio station is jointly owned by Macquarie and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), and operates out of UTSâs Ultimo campus.
UTS may continue to support 2SER solo, but with the University announcing last month it will cut more than 1,100 subjects and up to 400 jobs to try and save $100 million, the maintenance costs to sustain it may not be feasible either.
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I noticed on Todayâs Country website they say they broadcast on DAB even though the Central Coast doesnât even have any of its own DAB multiplexesđ .
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They seriously think the Central Coast has DAB, maybe theyâve been able to pick up Sydney DAB down there quite easily. 
Unless theyâre setting themselves up on DAB in the Sydney area to then market to Central Coast listeners? Or perhaps are they setting up an online stream of sorts?
https://radiotoday.com.au/cbaa-launches-national-community-radio-airplay-charts/
CBAA launches National Community Radio Airplay Charts
The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) has launched a new weekly snapshot of Australian music being played on community radio across the country, tracking airplay across all community stations.
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SYN FM is down again. Lots of outages this yearâŚ
Back on-air now.
www.2SER.com received a well overdue website facelift a few weeks ago. Much more alike to the www.fbi.radio site.
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Triple H has been open carrier since 9am this morning.
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What does this mean?
It means there is a signal being transmitted but with no sound on it.
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