Community Radio

[TV-Expert]

@dxnerd

FM103 Goulburn was busted for that as well in the late 80s or very early 90s. Fiching at the Goulburn library or NLA might yield the full story.

Here are some articles from The Canberra Times during that period, thanks to Trove.

11th May 1989:

30th August 1990:

[tamago_otoko]

Is there any requirement that they (or any other community station for that matter) serve a community that doesn’t have a service already? I guess variety would be looked upon favourably for licence applications, so could foreseeablely be an issue if they were to ever go permanent. But I wouldn’t think it’d cost them their TCBL just because they serve a similar community of interest to another station

[dxnerd]

There is a somewhat airy fairy requirement to ‘contribute to an adequate and comprehensive service’ for the licence area in question; this doesn’t impose anything format wise on stations, though.

In the case of competitive community licence applications such as the Sydney and Melbourne wide licences in the early 2000s, community of interest was definitely taken into account.

[crankymedia]

@Radiohead

2GLA Forster had licence conditions put on them for being ‘too commercial’.. that was when they ID’d as “FM101.5” and ran pretty much a Top 40 format, even though 2RE was more Hits N Memories and didn’t have great reception in the Forster area (their FM100.3 relay didn’t go to air until 1992).

I wasn’t around there late 80’s, first was aware of 101.5 Great Lakes mid 1993 and despite 2RE translator now active, instead of keeping away from their format, 101.5 was far less top 40 and more hits and memories with 2UE hourly bulletins and other commercial formatting. It was a great station.

[TheHomeOfMusic]

@dxnerd

FM103 Goulburn was busted for that as well in the late 80s or very early 90s. Fiching at the Goulburn library or NLA might yield the full story.

this also made Media Watch with Stuart Littlemore, it was the first time I’ve heard of this station, and as I was going on a road trip to Sydney soon after I had a listen to FM103 and it was a very slick and professional operation, sounded like a commercial station, even right down to the sponsorship announcements!

[TelevisionAU]

@TheHomeOfMusic

I had a listen to FM103 and it was a very slick and professional operation, sounded like a commercial station, even right down to the sponsorship announcements!

pity its logo didn’t look very slick

[iris]

@TheHomeOfMusic

a very slick and professional operation, sounded like a commercial station, even right down to the sponsorship announcements!

Kind of farcical though isn’t it, the idea you can get busted for that? If that is the case Light 89.9 should absolutely be shut down.

[Radiohead]

I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing if a community station sounds “slick”. It does make it more engaging to listen to.

As long as there is enough differentstion in the product so it’s not competing too closely with commercial radio, I think that’s fine.

[iris]

@Radiohead

As long as there is enough differentstion in the product so it’s not competing too closely with commercial radio, I think that’s fine.

Thats what im saying though, Light is a community station in name only. They “partner” with Channel Nine and take out billboards

[Brianc68]

@iris

@Radiohead

As long as there is enough differentstion in the product so it’s not competing too closely with commercial radio, I think that’s fine.

Thats what im saying though, Light is a community station in name only. They “partner” with Channel Nine and take out billboards

They’re allowed to have sponsors. A number of community stations partner with commercial TV stations and simulcast news bulletins. They’re also allowed to promote their stations on billboards and even advertise on TV and in newspapers etc.

[sj2450]

@iris

take out billboards

wait so your saying Community Radio stations shouldn’t promote themselves???

[sj2450]

items for sale - Pickles AU

[dxnerd]

When the contents of your community radio station are up on an auction site, you know you’re in a pickle.

[Radiohead]

Maybe they’re upgrading their equipment?

[anthonyeden]

@Radiohead

Maybe they’re upgrading their equipment?

This is Wow 100.7 who went into liquidation a couple of months ago.

[Radiohead]

Thanks, i couldn’t see what station it was.

[Laoma]

In terms of when a community radio station goes into liquidation is there an opportunity for a new entity to snap up 100.7. Or it goes back to ACMA to then reallocate if they want to.

[iris]

@sj2450

wait so your saying Community Radio stations shouldn’t promote themselves???

OK but like seriously have a look at The Light’s website, check out their whole deal, how much money is clearly going around, how much it looks & quacks like a commercial station and how much the sponsorship announcements function like ads - an ad for Coles for example that just has STATIONSPONSOR chucked at the end of it - oh and they apparently “partner” with Nine Media, whatever that means, and rebroadcast their content –

You’re telling me they’re not in breach of the spirit of a community radio licence, but some random station in Goulburn in the 90s was

What the hell was going on in Goulburn then??

[anthonyeden]

@Laoma

In terms of when a community radio station goes into liquidation is there an opportunity for a new entity to snap up 100.7. Or it goes back to ACMA to then reallocate if they want to.

It goes back to ACMA to reallocate. Aspirant groups can apply to use that frequency as a TCBL, and then eventually ACMA can invite aspirants to apply and state their case to become permanent.

But it stays as a community radio license in the LAP, so it’s not as if it’s at risk of being switched to commercial or narrowcast.

[Laoma]

@anthonyeden

But it stays as a community radio license in the LAP, so it’s not as if it’s at risk of being switched to commercial or narrowcast.

Got it so it stays as a community station. I was thinking in a parallel universe and CADA was a “real” local station for Penrith like it was back in the 2KA days, it could be used for them. The current design of 96.1 at Wentworth Falls just doesn’t work for Emu Plains close to the shadow of the Blue Mountains. They could also use 99.1 given Gold no longer is a western Sydney station either. (i.e I mean primarily since it is still part of the licence area for Sydney high power ) I am living in the past, 2KA or 2WS will no longer revert back to what it was 30 + years ago but it is fun to use my imagination and reminisce about the past.