Volume 32 Issue 1 City Park Radio 96.5 & 103.7 FM Launceston January 2018 Our giant Christmas hamper Meetings morphed into 3 special gifts Wednesday 3rd January 7pm

Management Committee Sat 20th January 9.30am

CPR SPONSORS • Barratts Music • Carbil Computers • Community Care Tas • Devil Country Muster • Fitzpatricks Pharmacy The first winner with no • Kameo Coffee Lounge encouragement to find the only ticket she purchased • Key Assets was Brooke Maloy - the next • Neil Pitt Menswear winner who remembered • Knits Needles & Wool their new phone number • was one of our latest to join Spot On Fencing City Park Radio was Peter • Tandys Ale House Carrel … and the winner of • Telstra Kings Meadows & the quickie raffle after Vern Quadrant Mall O’Byrne so generously re - • donated the prize (much to Top Drop Automotive the surprise of Shirley Lee)

was Dot McCarron. In all, about $1500 was raised for City SPONSORSHIP

Park Radio. A superb effort by Shirley you would agree. ENQUIRIES Shirley 6334 7429

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS A CHRISTMAS If you know of any business who Jan 1 —Van Diemens Land Calling part 2— GOAT would be a major sponsor of our

Stories from Tasmania—another in the series The Multicultural Unit raised sports broadcasts in 2018 please let Shirley know ASAP by Robert Jones. over $240 towards purchas- ing special World Vision gifts Jan 14 — Local One Day Cricket Final for overseas communities . Check your program guide for broadcast mes FUNDRAISER Bunnings Northside WISHING EVERYONE HAPPY LISTENING IN 2018 Wednesday Jan10

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Page 2 Friends of FM Reelin’ in VALE the Years Mary Read Classic Album Mary volunteered as a presenter for 17 years THE conducting her Ceilidh, first ALAN PARSONS weekly then fortnightly on PROJECT Saturdays. With her broad accent, she was often asked in I Robot (1977) supermarkets “are you that lady on the radio?”. Indeed she After releasing their first album two years earli- was, and we will miss her too. er, it was not until the follow -up in 1977 that The Alan Parsons Project really reached their potential. Deriving the title and concept of I Ro- Is community radio about the bot from Isaac Asimov’s classic sci -fi series about artificial intelligence, they avoided any listeners or the people on air some quotes from the CBAA Conference courtesy RadioInfo copyright issues by dropping the apostrophe from Asimov’s book title. “There are 21,000 staff/volunteers, but 5 million listen- ers, so it must be more about the listeners.” Alan Parsons was a London producer of note “Each station has its own personality… some of them (just think “Let It Be” and “Dark Side of the have multiple personalities.” Moon”) and with his partner Eric Woolfson, they “I came into this thinking that it was all about the audi- formed The Project by inviting guests to play on ence but I didn’t appreciate how important the on air pre- each of their albums. This particular album fea- senters are. In these days of juke box services to build tured Pilot’s David Paton on bass and Ian community we need the personalities of the people on Bairnson on guitar, and 10cc’s Stuart Tosh on air.” drums to accompany Parsons’ and Woolfson’s “Our presenters are there for a reason, sometimes that keyboards. reason is ego, sometimes it is for passion, sometimes they are there for the audience. Sometimes it’s all of The music on I Robot is best described as these reasons.” “progressive rock” however it’s made much “Community radio fosters the development of people more accessible to the mainstream by clever who contribute to our society… It develops the skills of use of melody, instrumentation and studio pro- people who can then contribute to our community… we duction. Songs like I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like have a responsibility to continually grow new broadcast- You , The Voice (sung by Cockney Rebel’s Ste- ers because they enrich our communities.” ve Harley) and Breakdown (sung by Allan “You are licenced to serve your community of interest. Clarke from The Hollies) became the staple diet It’s not just about presenters or the listeners, it is about for Classic Rock radio stations in the late 1970s serving and connecting with the community.” – and ever since. “We are asking the listeners to listen, but if we are not

listening to them it won’t happen. We need to be aware Reelin ’ in the Years - 60s & 70s — and engage our community.” “We are moving from push media to pull media, the lis- Saturdays 5 -7pm teners are more and more choosing what they want to 103.7 & 96.5 FM, online and on your smart phone listen to, we are no longer choosing that for them.”

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