I do agree with @CrowdedHouse though. Some community stations don’t have much of a budget and just do whatever they can quickly and easily.
That looks shocking. Feels like they’re taking the piss.
Hope the studios not dusty, if they sneeze their eyeballs would shoot across the room.
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Right, someone has to say it…where’s the cheese Gromit? Cracking toast Gromit! No crackers, Gromit! We forgot the crackers!
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Sonshine climbs to its highest-ever Perth market position
Sonshine has reached its highest-ever position in the Perth radio market, climbing to 8th overall in the latest McNair Community Radio Listener Survey while recording growth across every major audience measure.
The latest Wave 1 2026 survey saw Sonshine’s weekly audience increase to 188,000 listeners and combined weekly reach across Sonshine and Sonshine Extra growing to 208,000 listeners.
Combined monthly reach climbed to 360,000 listeners.
Sonshine says not only has it risen two places from 10th to 8th in the Perth market – narrowing the gap to Curtin FM – it’s also now outperforming both 6PR and ABC NewsRadio in weekly and monthly reach.
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Bloody god botherers. (replace “god” with whatever you pray to) …they are not community radio. They pander to one faith. I’ll give them some “Sonshine” and it’s not from a pleasant place. 
A good community radio station caters to anyone and everyone that the commercials and the ABC don’t even bother with.
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arguably that’s what the Christian radio stations are doing, seeing as ABC and commercial radio barely give any airtime to Christianity or religion (Except perhaps for The Religion Report on Radio National for a whole 0.5 hours a week).
And not all Community stations are licenced to serve everybody and anybody in their licence area, e.g. stations like Joy FM, SYN and 3KND in Melbourne are all licenced for specific groups deemed not served by national or commercial radio.
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Correct.
Most metro-wide community stations are licensed for a specific ‘community of interest’. This may be a specific age demographic, a religion, cultural or racial group, disability, orientation, etc.
It’s only the sub-metros and regionals that are licensed more for ‘general interest in a certain geographic area’.
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God botherer stations are a waste of space.
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If you don’t like them, don’t listen to them. Clearly others do.
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I have an issue with most if not all of them essentially being pseudo commercial stations…..
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Yep. The prosperity gospel reigning supreme here.
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Plus religion is a cult anyway.
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that is probably a fair criticism
That is not
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The Government has announced a package of proposed broadcasting reforms that would strengthen the sector by making community radio easier to access on smart speakers, reducing unnecessary regulatory barriers, increasing sponsorship flexibility for stations, and supporting new First Nations radio broadcasters.
The Government has also announced changes to the proposed News Bargaining Incentive that recognise the important role of small, independent and diverse publishers. Following advocacy from CBAA, sector partners and other organisations, the proposed scheme now includes a dedicated grant program intended to support smaller media organisations.
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Spectrum wise for these proposed Indigenous Broadcasters for Adelaide, Canberra and Hobart, Adelaide is easy as you just have to reactivate 1197 for the new service. Canberra on the other hand, would be a bit difficult due to the congested FM band unless you want to put it on AM ala Adelaide. For Hobart, 100.1 or 102.5 would be a good frequency for this proposed station.
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