I used to admire them on the central coast and Newcastle, some massive ones there. Oh the 80s the good old days. When the only commercial FM radios stations were in Sydney. 2HD, 2KO, 2NX and 2GO on the car radio while I went the school holidays to Newcastle for his work.
Probably about a 0.001% of that. And thatâs of course in no way a dig at you (Iâm not even sure what your show is, Iâll have to look into it), itâs simply that Aussie commerical radio has no interest in taking chances and would rather play it extremely safe and stick with what they know works (i.e. generates revenue).
I know itâd be great to be able to say that the commercials played a track because they heard it from you, but I canât see it happening. There are YouTube/Spotify songs with hundreds of millions of views that commerical radio here will never touch. If anything, it allows you the opportunity to offer something unique.
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Of course youâre right, but itâs nice to dream!
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Now that weâre broadcasting regularly, weâre currently looking for someone who can be a journalist, help us interview people, discuss various topics, and copyright material for on-air presentation as news stories.
We get a daily send out from PWDA that links us to all the disability stories that appear in that days papers. However we canât read this material on air, because weâll be in breach of each papers copyright. Weâll need someone at least to be able to reword these stories, so they can be read without crossing any copyright issues.
Weâre not sure where to start. Iâve spoken to Aspect NSW who recommended me to Disability Gateway Australia, who in turn are going to get back to me this week about organisations I can contact. Weâre also crafting an ad to put into Seekâs Go Volunteer. We do have options, but each no doubt will have itâs advantages and caveats.
I did think of the School of Audio Engineering for possibly getting someone. Iâm not sure if they would be an intern for us, or that they would get paid, weâd have to investigate this further as I believe we can get funding from CBAA for at least some form of payment.
Iâm basically entering a new phase of our project, and would like someone to guide us, weâll need someone who is legally savvy on what can be presented on radio, and being able to advocate for the disabled. Iâm basically entering grounds that are way above my paygrade and would like some direction.
You are able to use the material under Fair Dealing in The Australian Copyright Act if it is for the reporting of news (ie youâre wrapping stories of the day and attributing each story to its respective publication), review/criticism or for making it available to people with visual impairments.
âRewordingâ or rewriting stories as you mentioned can be considered plagiarism and is ethically wrong. Youâre best to read the stories in the provisions of Fair Dealing and ensure proper and adequate attribution is given to the original journalists and publications.
For example, âas reported by Jane Dow in the Sydney Morning Herald today, xyz is doing abcâ.
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Mmm, Interesting, I was told the contrary by staff at CBAA. I did say that weâd be acknowledging each papers source at the end of each item, but they still insisted weâd be crossing some copyright legalities. As I said, this is outside of my expertise as this is why we need someone to help us navigate through this territory for us. When I did some initial research on this, I believe that they are some online papers that have âopen commonsâ articles, but this would place a heavy limit on what we could cover.
We were proposing that the journalist / reader would present the item in the following style,
âWednesdayâs Sydney Morning Herald noted that person X has initiated an awareness campagne for raising the profiles of condition X and Y, and tells about their experiences, blah blah blahâŚâ
Donât take advice from the CBAA, thatâs the best advice I can give you.
This is ideal use of Fair Dealing. ABC local radio do very similar in a lot of their breakfast shows when reading out top stories from local papers and news websites.
Perhaps double check with a copyright lawyer first to get some assurance.
Interesting. Yeah I donât know either RE: the copyright questions
I wonder the music played are there any community Sydney wide station (not your SWR FMs/ Alive for example) has played this kind of music before in Sydney like the Fresh Mix.
I donât listen to the Sydney wide community stations that often. Maybe 107.3 FM 2SER or 94.5 FBI did, just didnât listen. Potentially 103.2 Hope FM does. I think your play list does fill in a gap in the Sydney market well.
I think itâs safe to say that some of the songs aired on The Fresh Mix via 2OOO havenât aired on Sydney radio before (even on community radio). 2SER and fBi play unknown stuff from underplayed genres but rarely retro pop music.
I listened to the first 2OOO FM show in the car today, great stuff.
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For pre 1988 stuff, 2SM probably would have, but agree, otherwise no.
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Hey all, just a short note that I âMayâ be going into hospital this week. Iâm hoping it is just a little lump next to my eye, but am going in to check to make sure it is not an eye infection. When I had surgery a few years ago, they mentioned that an infection was a slight possibility, but they expllicitly never said when this could happen. So want to attend to this, rather then leaving it only to go completely blind from an infection. So reggierocket will be putting on some standby mixes this week from the gong until we can get back online again, hopefully next week.
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Take care. Hope its nothing major.
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Back home, itâs been a mad rush, but yes, will be on air tonight. 
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Doctor said it was a superficial problem on the external part of my eye, but has given me meds for treatment as she believes it will spread to the eyeâs internals if not treated properly. Iâm home for a few more days, but sheâs recommended if the infection has not gone away after a few days from the antibiotics, then Iâll have to visit the eye hospital all the way in central Sydney. 
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Second this! Hope you get well soon
Major snafu tonight at Burwood, we canged programs at the last minute, postboned curated show till monday, a generic music show went to air tonight. The programmer before our show forgot to turn up the faders, so we barely had any signal coming off the off-air monitors, we made the best of a less then desirable situation.
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Not sure about the training at 2OOO FM, they will often be on transmitter backup or just plain dead air with both TXA & their contract tech chasing a transmission issue, only to find some moron in the studio hasnât turned the fader up/on, & thatâs a regular thing there unfortunately.
Iâve just checked now at 8:30am & it doesnât look like anyoneâs turned the fader up yet, transmitted audio volume is very low & the transmitter is peaking at 40% modulation, averaging 25-30% modulation.
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This is pretty poor form for a Sydney wide community station I must say. Itâs a pretty fundamental error to make, made worse by the fact that nobody in management has corrected it.
From what RF is saying this is not the first time this has occurred. Community radio is fighting for survival in many places and this sort of thing doesnât help.
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My sentiments exactly. The first draft of my previous post last night was⌠well⌠not pretty. The problem with my autism is that in the moment, one can be ruthlessly blund only to regret it later. My friends and I place much effort into producing our shows, and it would have been appreciated to have like wise on the other end. But I guess it is a community radio station with limited resources and it is what it is. Apparently their computers are about five operating systems of windows behind, and the software that drives their on air playlists and operations is free / demo software. Had this confirmed by the technician, just not in so many words.
At the end of the day though on our behalf, itâs going to take some give and take, as we are in a much better position to what we were a few months ago, which was absolutely nothing.
About 30 minutes into the show, we decided to turn our levels all the way to the max, which probably flooded their line in on the mixing board at their end. The second half of our standby show sounded fine, so if this issue happens again, weâll know what to do.
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I am listening to, the Starter stream which I think may not be affected? I will find out when I try Thursdayâs stream.
Listening to the Wednesday edition stream now on delay. I know I always repeat myself , I do enjoy your music. Not necessarily I would run out and buy the tracks, but you play a subset of music that is lost to radio, almost like an 80s parallel universe. Its like I am living in the 80s listening to new music except it is 2024 and I am a bit older now. Like the song 10 million dollar baby!!! What a gem of a song.
Another one
New Romeo by Southside Johnny & The Jukes