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President's Column...... 2 CBAA Update ...... 3 National Listener Survey...... 4 12 Project News...... 6 By Invitation...... 7 Networking the News...... 8 Small Talk...... 10 Radio with Pictures...... 12 Radio Days...... 15 Across the Sector...... 16 Station to Station...... 19 20 Making Radio...... 20 Getting the Message Across...... 22 24 Out of the Box...... 24

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o Conference, r f s w ie CBX is the magazine of the d V Community Broadcasting Association an Codes, Campaigns, of Australia. w Nes CBX is mailed to CBAA members and stakeholders. Subscribe to CBX by emailing: Collaboration [email protected] president's CBX is also available online at: www.cbaa.org.au/cbx & Challenges Follow us on Twitter: @_CBX_ By > Adrian Basso column Like us on Facebook: CBX CBAA President Editor: Chris Yates I [email protected] Funding is always a critical issue for the community broadcasting sector and especially so now. Federal funding for two vital national projects was cut this SUB-editor: Danny Chifley I [email protected] year, AMRAP and Digital Radio Project, severely impacting our ability digital broadcasting platforms and for the scale of the sector and the Kath Letch to maintain community digital radio services and for the wide dissemination graphic design: By > that this access is affordable to the contribution it makes to media diversity, to stations of Australian music. Judith Martinez I [email protected] CBAA General Manager community sector’. Yet only 12 months local content and social inclusion. later in the May Federal Budget we lost In this current economic climate, with political leaders desperate to prove Thanks to: Seth Jordan, It’s critical that the CBAA continues themselves the toughest budget managers on the block, things are not boding Amy Moon & Christina Ward almost a third of the funding required to I’m looking forward to catching to advocate for funding to be restored well. The CBAA coordinated the case to have the funding restored and to ensure support these new digital services. Advertising: up with members at the ‘Access to these projects that benefit the whole we keep front of mind the importance of the community broadcasting sector to For all advertising enquiries all Areas’ CBAA conference this sector in one way or another and that the national good. please contact the Editor. year in . There are some national representation is a core part of the CBAA’s role. We’ve also had Printed by: interesting and practical sessions on strong support from other national Community broadcasting is all about access Brighset printing I [email protected] offer, and I would encourage everyone sector bodies on these funding issues attending to engage in discussion and equity and the conference will highlight CBX is printed on: and it’s important for that collaboration about station operations, community ecoStar to continue for sector development engagement, media and sector issues, a range of workshops and information-sharing and resources. and exchange information and ideas as in this area. much as possible. We’ve conducted extensive consultation for the Community Broadcasting Codes With this in mind the theme of this year's CBAA Conference - Access All Areas CBX content is CBAA copyrighted. The CBAA has spent a great deal of of Practice this year and will soon - is spot on. Community broadcasting is all about access and equity and the All rights reserved. Articles may time these last few months engaged release the Codes for the final stage of conference will highlight a range of workshops and information-sharing in this be used by CBAA members without with funding issues for two of the permission, provided credit is given. public comment for introduction in 2013. area. Not just limited to the conference, you’ll also see it promoted in the pages sector-wide national projects managed In general the response has been that of this issue of CBX, where we look at how the sector promotes access and Cover Image: 'Radio with Pictures' Illustration by the CBAA – Amrap and the Digital the Codes are working well for most participation across a number of activities. Credit: Matt Huynh Radio Project. Amrap has had stations so the revisions are more a broad-scale support from stations, matter of fine tuning than major change. As for the conference, a selection of information shared there will be made broadcasters, musicians and the available online so that you can access it from wherever you are, even if you Australian music industry for funding Community broadcasting is a complex can’t make it to Melbourne. to be restored and at this stage we have and diverse sector and it reflects the depth of diversity in the Australian Finally, one person who has contributed an extraordinary amount to open emergency funding in place until the community – precisely what it was access to the sector and furthered its interests like no other is Kath Letch, end of 2012. We continue to hope that It’s enormously disappointing to see established to do. It can be challenging who is stepping down as CBAA General Manager early next year. On behalf funding solutions will be found before these set-backs with national resources to embrace the breadth of that diversity of the sector I would like to thank Kath for her invaluable contribution to the we are forced to consider winding up at times and it’s a great credit to the sector and wish her well in the future. the project. and infrastructure at a time when the sector faces dramatic changes in media 20,000 plus volunteers and over 300 Community digital radio services for

PANTONE 802 C stations around the country that as a metro-wide stations were launched by production and content distribution. The Federal Government has increased whole it does it so well. So a final ‘c’ the Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy in word – we should celebrate that! May 2011 who stated ‘The government funding support to the sector is committed to ensuring access for significantly since it took office but it Kath Letch community broadcasting services on remains a very modest level of funding CBAA General Manager

2 The Magazine of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia • August 2012 www.cbaa.org.au/cbx 3 2012m Com unity Radio 57%fast National Listener Survey listen at break By > Stephen Hahn

Manager, CBOnline Project

Who is listening? 2012 McnAIR Ingenuity How long are people Wh en do they listen? The diverse audience Research Community Radio tuning in for? Listening is spread strongly across closely mirrors the wider Australian National Listener Survey. Community radio listeners are all parts of the day: Breakfast 57%, How many listeners? population across gender, age groups, dedicated and consistent, with the mid-morning 55%, Afternoon 46%, The fifth Community Drive 55%, Evening 30%, In an average week 15,648,000 Australians employment types, occupations and income average listener tuning in for Listener Survey results illustrate Overnight 10%. listen to radio, 4,446,000 (25%) of those listen levels. 80% of Community Radio’s audience 14.1 hours a week. a consistent, strong and dedicated to community radio each week and 10,611,000 fall into the Main Grocery Buyer category. Community Radio audience in (59%) listen occasionally. the face of a rapidly changing media environment and increased listening options. McNair Ingenuity Research was commissioned to run the 2012 National Listener Surveys, the fifth National Listener Survey they have conduced to date. McNair Ingenuity Research is a fully accredited market and social research organisation and has a long eminent history of radio audience research dating back Why do they listen? Why do they listen? to the first audience studies conducted in Australia in 1934. The number one reason Australians A third of the community radio listen to community radio is for local audience listen for Australian music The 2012 McNair Ingenuity information and local news. and its support of local artists. h week Community Radio National Listener c Survey was conducted using a modern interlaced survey system of CATI and online survey tools. This method has been developed in Y radio ea response to the change in number NIT of active land lines and the need 92.6% to capture all demographics of listen to FM/am OMMU listeners 15 years and older. The sample size was increased to 9270 respondents and is the largest 4,446,000 sample in the history of the survey. listen to C For further information contact: Stephen Hahn, Manager, CBOnline Project at: [email protected] What do they like? or go to cbonline.org.au Almost a third listen for independent How do they listen? i s it valued? opinions delivered by local voices that Where are they listening from? Community radio audiences access Community radio received sound like real people. programming in multiple ways, a highly valuable rating by Community radio listening is strong across 92.6% on AM/FM , 6.6% on FM 95% of the audience. the 8 metro markets (cap cities) and is & Digital, 0.8 Digital only, 53% listen consistently strong across all non-metro online at some stage and a third markets, averaging 25% of the available access Podcasts. audience across all markets.

4 The Magazine of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia • November 2012 www.cbaa.org.au/cbx 5 Digital Radio Project But despite not making any kind of Funding for the Digital Radio imaginable difference to those five Project was announced in the listeners, we always left the studio Federal Government’s May Budget. feeling like we’d made a difference to The allocation of $2.2 million for the ourselves. That in that rundown old 4-year funding cycle (2013 – 2016) building, with the blocky beige plastic project for the DRP is approximately $1.4 panels from the 1970s, we were being given a place to unfurl and grow, to million per annum belowthe Project’s tentatively test the loudness of our own News funding requirements. voices and think about where we wanted The CBAA has been vigorously lobbying to take them. for additional funding to meet the To me, this is the beauty of community shortfall. Should the Government radio. Not that it exists as its own vast fail to meet the shortfall the CBAA eco-system, supporting life in countless will consult extensively with digital varietal species so different they may licensees to ascertain just how the DRP as well be intergalactic. Not that it is a will progress with insufficient funds. shining beacon amongst the screeching The CBAA manages three projects on behalf of the community broadcasting banality of commercial radio with its Radio and SYN have now been sector: Australian Music Radio Airplay Project (Amrap) squawking sameness and bottom lines, Community Broadcasting Online Project (CBOnline) • Digital Radio Project (DRP) supplied with metadata for their digital nourishing its diversity as something radio services. The stations will soon be y not just valuable but necessary. It does able to broadcast a range of images and b all these things and much more. But it’s Community Media Training notions of what makes excellent text related to their programs. The DRP most significant quality is that in serving Organisation radio. Audiolab will bring together continues to gather and process station n the community, it grows the community. some fantastic examples of radio and program data for all stations in i It’s generous in its desire to not just The Community Media Training t preparation for metadata services. v production from both within the iaton display the flowers, but grow them from Organisation is a sector project Clementine Ford is an Australian writer and broadcaster with a background in feminist/social which is now a fully incorporated sector and from around the world. A number of new digital specific content the roots up and never deny them space commentary, pop culture, anecdotal memoir and biographical features. to exist. Registered Training Organisation. The site will include production initiatives are in production. Countdown notes about the process behind to the Ring, is a collaborative production It’s been years since I first sat behind So far, the CMTO has delivered selling t-shirts alongside the registration the brilliance. that desk. I’ve since hosted commercial training to over 50 stations and by the Fine Music Network of stations: By > Clementine Ford papers. I remember them clear as day almost 1,000 students. The in-house training kit for 2MBS, 3MBS, 4MBS and 5MBS and - royal blue, in the Bonds cut favoured talkback, filled in for the Breakfasters Artsound. “Countdown to The Ring is an on Melbourne’s 3RRR and appeared as stations will also be ready for I recall with fondness the first time I by student department t-shirts of the Right now, CMTO are developing a innovative content development model a guest on countless radio shows both launching at the CBAA conference. stepped foot into a radio studio. It was time. Across the chest, they’d been complete in-house training kit for for the fine music sector. Joel Carnegie, commercial and community. I no longer The kit includes everything you my first year at university; we were emblazoned with ‘radio star’. That could stations and some new advanced Special Projects Producer at 3MBS, feel overwhelmed by the stillness of a need to train new and existing about three or four years away from the be me, I thought. A radio star. production courses which include explains: “The program is designed to studio and the terror of dead air. I have volunteers at your station as well encroaching mess of Voluntary Student Student radio broadcast from the studios multiplatform and documentary/ unravel the practical complexities and the experience now to be considered some ideas for training that can Unionism (VSU), and enjoying the last at . They were old, with feature production. cultural obsessions associated with ‘good talent’. raise income for your station. heady days of political activism, student panels made from a blocky beige plastic. Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle.” You may have already viewed media and jugs of free beer on the CD turners had only been introduced in But I don’t think anything will ever touch some videos about multiplatform 4ZZZ have employed a new Digital campus lawns. the last few years - prior to that, it had the sides of how it felt to be entrusted production on the CMTO site Content Development Coordinator, I was what you might describe as ‘a been all about records and cueing up with that responsibility so long ago. (www.cmto.org.au). Now CMTO Andrew McLellan, to focus on developing literary joiner’. I immediately determined tapes to the right spot. If it was glamour To be invited in to that warm hearth are working on an online audio new programming for the Zed Digital to find the kind of swotty student media I was looking for, I wouldn’t find it there. and encouraged to mark my own little gallery which explores the different service. A number of new programs are gang that would let me use some of my What I would find was a starting point. corner of it. already on air with more in development high school debating experience to spew I’ve never had an encyclopaedic grasp This is community radio, and this is including a dedicated live music program forth lofty, adult opinions and pass them of music, and nothing that I listen to why it’s so much more important than AMRAP and DIY arts program. off as journalism. I remember writing a could be explicitly recognised as ‘cool’. its cynical counterpart. It bends and Over the last few months, Amrap has continued to service hundreds very earnest, private schoolgirl type of But none of that mattered at 5UV. I ran a expands and invites rather than excludes, of broadcasters and stations with great new Australian music with no letter to the student newspaper in week fortnightly show with my friend Michael, rather than muffles, rather than denies. shortage of musicians applying to get their music distributed for airplay. two defending my fellow first years and which we somewhat absurdly christened It tells people that their contributions Our Amrap Pages service is going strong with over 700 radio programs I against the scurrilous wit of a more ‘Ralph’s Bayou’. I have no idea why, other are valid and important; that they can now promoting music playlists and Australian music content through jaded third year - we were not, as he’d than it was a reference to Ralph Wiggum. march into that quiet, still room where station websites. Amrap is currently operating on a small amount of suggested, scamps and wastrels with Thinking on it now, it’s exactly the kind the panels may be brown and old but reserve funds while we wait to see if funding solutions are found by the empty heads - perhaps if he gave himself of nonsensical attempt at meaning that where they also pulsate with the echoes Federal Government and we hope to have an outcome to that by the end the chance, he could learn a thing or two is so common to 18 year olds trying to of decades of music, words and voices of of October. There's been a huge amount of support from community from us! confidently assume their place in the people just like you, people who wanted broadcasters, Australian musicians and music industry bodies which is The rush of publication was satisfying, world. In between talk breaks in which to be it, people who did it, people who will greatly appreciated. Greens communications spokesperson, Scott Ludlam but it wasn’t enough. I became greedy our affected nonchalance was punctuated continue to do it long after you’ve done has also championed the cause in recent months and we appreciate by self deprecating references to ‘our for more mediums in which to not just it and together in those with their faded that support. We hope that by the time you're reading this magazine that five listeners’, we played angst ridden share my voice, but pummel people carpets and outdated equipment and funding support has been restored. If not a serious battle lies ahead to over the head with it. When I heard that mainstream pop - Tori Amos, Smashing loyal listenerships you will know what it continue the Amrap program. A funding update will be available at the student radio station was looking Pumpkins. Ani Difranco. I can confidently Joel Carnegie feels like to be it. www.amrap.org and in the CBAA enews. for new announcers, I signed up for say we had no idea what or why we were training immediately. The station was doing it. A radio star.

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in every state in Australia, our news journalists in its history. Fourteen coverage template per bulletin reflects 2nd year CSU journalism students the aim to cover as wider range of news are currently undertaking the newly as possible. The template is 1 x world formulated cadetship program. NEWS news story, 1 x Australian national A further seven are part of the first- Since its establishment in 1997, as a partnership between the CBAA and story, 1 x state capital city story, 1 x ever contributor program. And both Charles Sturt University, National Radio News (NRN) has built a strong state regional story (to be a different programs are now fully enmeshed into reputation within the Community sector as a reliable and affordable state to the capital city story where the journalism course, something that service, providing subscriber stations with the opportunity to incorporate possible) OR 1 x general interest story has been lacking since the inception of (science, medical, technology etc) then the service. Previously, NRN has only hourly, up-to-date news bulletins into their daily broadcast schedule. a ‘briefly’ (any subject), if time permits, taken on six cadets at a time. But it was Operating as an important part of CSU's School of Communications, followed by the sports news. But the felt the low number of students involved NRN has also proved itself to be a valuable training facility for young producer on shift has the right to with NRN meant the service was not journalists, providing students with supervised hands-on experience, deviate from the template whenever the adequately meeting its obligation to while working alongside experienced journalists in a professional news to hand demands it. the university. The increase this year in student participation has been newsroom environment. Distributed by CRN, managed by local 2MCE In terms of training schedule, as cadets noted and appreciated by the school are still being intensively mentored As they gain more Station Manager Ross Larsen and overseen by News Director Rod and faculty. Bloomfield, 2013 looks set to be a big year for NRN. early in their tenure, we roster our experience and senior journalists to produce and In summary, NRN depends on the present the all important 6am–9am backing of CSU and support from the get better at their The other major reason NRN has ‘brekky’ section on weekdays, and Community Broadcasting Foundation by > Rod Bloomfield job, cadets are survived its ups and downs is that just the 4pm–7pm ‘drive’ session, while (CBF), along with a partnership with the News Director for National Radio about everyone who becomes involved the cadets get their chance to go to CBAA, to continue operating while also given increased News & 2MCE Local Newsrooms with it, either as a cadet or professional air nationally between 10am and 3pm requiring an ongoing understanding air time and more National Radio News (NRN) is the only journalist, ends up enthralled by it weekdays, and weekend mornings. from subscriber stations that it is both facility of its kind in Australia. In fact, and often extremely attached and As they gain more experience and a journalist training facility AND a news responsibility. But it’s quite unique in the world! committed to it. Many very good people get better at their job, cadets are delivery service. We thank all for that senior journalists have gone above and beyond the call of given increased air time and more backing and understanding. The mission of the service is to balance duty to enable NRN to operate at times responsibility. But senior journalists are always standing Rod Bloomfield is the News Director the need for subscriber community when other entities would have folded. are always standing by to ensure that for National Radio News & 2MCE Local by to ensure that the stations to receive a top quality, the quality remains as high as possible. By its very nature, NRN is always a independent, world and national news Newsrooms, School of Communication work in progress in terms of the student quality remains as service on the one hand, but also to In the 2012/13 year, NRN has taken on and Creative Industries, Charles Sturt cadet learning experience. Now though, be an intensive learning laboratory for the largest number of student cadet University, Bathurst high as possible. after massive changes implemented journalism students at Charles Sturt over the past two years, the service is University (CSU) in Bathurst NSW. stronger than ever before. But there is Serving two masters is a high wire always a little tweaking going on here act at times, and conflicts between and some fine tuning there! competing interests has seen NRN NRN is again growing its most important come close to extinction on more than asset, the subscriber base of community one occasion. But it’s still here! It has stations. To ensure subscriber stations survived because it does an amazing are getting the best possible service, job. The large number of graduate while also letting our cadets receive cadets who now dominate broadcast the experience the university demands journalism in Australia, along with they receive, changes have been made a number who are working in print to the training schedule and the news journalism, is testament to this. Go coverage format itself. to any part of Australia and you will almost certainly hear, see, or read Taking into account that our coverage news delivered by a CSU/NRN cadet footprint is 2nd only to the ABC in terms program graduate. of size, and that we have subscribers

8 The Magazine of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia • November 2012 www.cbaa.org.au/cbx 9 “It’s been amazing how successful the CBAA Awards and in recent months by > Emma Couch we’ve been in getting out there - has officially put their show to podcast CBAA sharing all the topics and opinions on making it available to listeners around dwarfism. At first we didn’t think many the globe. people would listen, but the word got “Being a monthly show we assumed that In early 2011 Graci Lynch, Sam Millard, out there and our audience base has it would be difficult to maintain regular Jonathan Tripp, Meredith Tripp, Oliver grown greatly, as well as receiving listeners, however through the use of Lynch and Margherita Coppolino feedback every show,” says presenter the internet, social media and the SSPA gathered in Melbourne’s 3CR studios Graci Lynch. to set the record straight on dwarfism we have succeeded. We are heartened Making positive steps on the path of by the feedback we receive on our Small through their monthly radio program, building awareness, the team soon Talk Facebook page, especially from Small Talk. realised the power their program had new parents of a child with a condition Tired of inappropriate stereotypes and in helping themselves understand more of dwarfism, who say they have been terminology and a resounding lack of about their condition through their enlightened to hear of all the support knowledge in the community regarding audience and interviewees. that is available for them.” dwarfism, the team formed to educate, “It’s funny because you feel confident Amongst the list of achievements, promote and explore the lives of that you would be a living expert of Small Talk’s one and a half years on individuals living with the condition that what it’s like to have a condition of air has also attracted a number of they were all born with. dwarfism,” says Graci. “What you government dignitaries, sport stars don’t realise until you start doing the and highly regarded researchers of That was 18 months ago. The close research, is how much you don’t know. dwarfism to the microphone of 2012 will have seen the show, We have learnt a lot from individuals “We were thrilled to interview one supported by an inspired audience, who have been kind enough to say yes of our dream guests, Professor Ravi mature into a valued resource for to an interview. These have included Savarirayan, Head of Clinical those affected by dwarfism and the mothers, friends, doctors and the like.” communities they live in. Genetics Service and President of Over the last 18 months the Small Talk International Skeletal Dysplasia Society The idea for Small Talk stemmed team achieved national recognition (ISDS). He is well known to the team from an interview with the late Adam and cemented their position as the first from appointments some have with Stobbs of Melbourne’s Joy Radio and program of its kind in the world. him, as well as his visits to SSPA events Margherita. Adam suggested that short and conventions and is at the forefront “We have half an hour every month to statured people should have their own of international research into all of educate the community at large what radio program that would help educate the hundreds of different conditions life is like living with dwarfism and the community on short statured issues. of dwarfism.” dismiss myths associated with it,” Graci Margherita, who has been a great continues. “Not having a precedent to In addition to Professor Savarirayan, voice for disability advocacy in the work from and having the pleasure to Small Talk has hosted Race past, ran with the idea approaching call each other friends gives so much Discrimination Comissioner, Dr. Helen Disability Services Victoria, the Short flexibility when it comes to planning our Szoke, Australian Basketball Coach Statured People of Australia (SSPA) and shows. So much so, scripts are often and player, Lindsay Gaze and Rosemary Melbourne’s 3CR for support. Following overlooked the moment the on-air light Hobbs, founder of the SSPA. comes on, such is the camaraderie a call out through the SSPA, six willing “Looking forward we’d love to have amongst us.” candidates came forward to officially the Victorian Minister for Community form the Small Talk presenter team In 2011 Small Talk was highly Services, Mary Wooldrigde and her and after a rigorous bout of training commended in the category for Best Federal counterpart, Jenny Macklin take to the mic. New Program or Content Initiative at on the show.”

You can catch the Small Talk team live on the first Wednesday of every month at 6pm from 3CR 885AM in Melbourne or on the podcast at www.3cr.org.au/aggregator/sources/9641

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of the event along with Graphic Festival By > Alex White co-founder Gabriel Clark. “Radio with Digital Radio Project Pictures gives us the opportunity to explore two unique modes of storytelling, and discover how they can ’s FBi Radio, in partnership with intersect,” explains Eliza Sarlos, “What Graphic Festival, is producing an event I love most about combining them is titled Radio with Pictures, which sets that both forms, separately, allow so out to explore the potential of this image much space for the audience to unfold Watery Nose - Sara Drake Nose - Sara Watery broadcast capacity. The event teams the story. When they work together you up writers with illustrators and comic still get that while also adding the extra makers to produce and present a series dimension that enhances, rather than of new stories. The stories will be told limits the imagination.” live with projections of the images and Gabriel expands on this idea “Comics a radio simulcast will accompany the and radio are rad. I like to think of the

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Radio with pictures, as a phrase, sounds a bit like ‘I’m vegetarian but I eat bacon double cheese burgers’ and it’s a term that has been clumsily wielded to describe a range of media related phenomena from the advent of television to the seminal late 70’s New Zealand Music TV show of the same name. However ‘radio with pictures’ now exists in and of itself with the digital radio platform and its capacity to present images alongside text and audio. Evening Excercises - Sara Drake - Sara Excercises Evening

12 www.cbaa.org.au/cbx 13 onn C The project has been lucky to attract some of Australia’s most talented writers including Lawrence Leung (of og - Lachlan

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A writer and playwright Anna Barnes (‘Girl! The Ultimate Guide to Being You’), Courtney Collins (‘The Burial’), Nina Las Vegas (JJJ) and John Birmingham (‘He Died With A Felafel In His Hand’, SHAKESPEARE ALIVE IN ‘Leviathan’) alongside radio makers E arlier this year ’s 4MBS drew record breaking crowds to their 6th from FBi’s All The Best and audio annual 4MBS Brisbane Shakespeare Festival reinvigorating the legend of the Bard journal Paper Radio. All these will work in classic form. alongside talented illustrators and comic makers; Sara Drake (US), Leigh A free production of Shakespeare’s Rigozzi, Matt Taylor, Matt Huynh and historical drama, Henry V, headlined Georgia Perry. the event and lured 3000 Shakespeare enthusiasts over two weekends and The combination, while including locations across Brisbane. audio and images, doesn’t equate to television or film as the pictures are Opera Australia’s Tama Matheson, non-moving images. In fact in the supported by 14 local professional 2NUR FM case of the digital radio broadcast it is actors, directed and starred in the ON YOUR SMARTPHONE actually against the law to broadcast production that in true Shakespearian This atypical use of the new platform moving images to ensure that the new form, spanned across five different 2NUR FM in Newcastle have platform doesn’t facilitate competition stages leaving crowds unable to escape harnessed the smartphone’s power will be a world first for digital radio against television licensees. close involvement in the famous 1415 of portability and developed an App that will allow listeners to tune in The Digital Radio Project (DRP) battle of Agincourt. to their easy listening classics from is assisting in devising ways to The festival also featured Shakespeare far and wide. Inspiration for the provision image data suitable to a sonnet readings and performances in development of the app came about live event. “Radio with Pictures is an local cafes, authentic swordplay, music after attending a next-generation exciting opportunity for the project performances and a film screening. technologies conference last year. to experiment with the data layer,” Most events were free and suitable for Research presented at the conference explains DRP Manager Philip Shine. all ages in keeping with the festival’s aim found in the last quarter of 2010 “It is very exciting to see the community smartphones had outsold PC's in the sector leading innovation on the digital to make the great classics accessible to young and old. USA and radio stations were already onn radio platform.” C launching Apps worldwide. The image and text data capacity of Now at the end of 2012, 2NUR digital radio is designed to facilitate General Manager Wayne Stamm the provision of ancillary data, such as ed - Lachlan believes making radio accessible information about a program, music radio five-o-plus keep via smartphones is more important Lawrence Leung - Leigh Rigozzi Lawrence Untitl being played or special segments. than ever. This ancillary data is displayed in a their transmission alive cyclic fashion and does not require the “Our first target was to get a playout listener to remain ‘glued’ to the screen. I n March of last year, the owner of the tower which housed Five-O-Plus’ transmitter system onto the iPhone and then informed the station they would be required to relocate from the 2GO tower in onto Android. We will then continue The approach Radio with Pictures takes Somerby to the nearby SEA FM tower at the own cost. to develop both systems, adding is very different, momentarily turning to them as we can afford to do so. the radio into an electronic story book Without the finances to fund such a move Five-O-Plus’ station manager Carmel With people now carrying their life or old-school slide show. This atypical Pickup developed the unique idea of forming an association with Coast FM 963 and quite literally in their hand, getting use of the new platform will be a world todayscountry94one, the /Wyong Community Radio Association Incorporated. onto the smartphones is becoming first for digital radio. “What started out as a simple idea of applying jointly for grant funding turned into an increasingly important.” enormous project” she said. “Not only did we have to write the application, which is no mean feat in itself, but we had to form a whole new Incorporated Association just to be E > Th app is easy to use eligible to apply for the funding.” d at Between the three of them the three stations had the support and resources to and free to downloa successfully apply for a CBF grant to fund part of the move. The move and install of the E www. new transmitter has now been completed. n wcastle.edu.au/2nurfm/ Orange Peel - Matt Huynh Peel Orange

14 The Magazine of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia • November 2012 www.cbaa.org.au/cbx 15 Community Broadcasting RPH Profile – Now online first RPH radio reading services began Foundation RPH Australia is the national peak body broadcasting in 1978. Now, the RPH General Station Grants 2012/13 – Round 2 for the RPH Radio Reading Network. Network consists of 18 AM/FM radio services around Australia, as well There will be a second round of General Station grants, closing on Friday 7 December 2012. General The RPH Network plays a unique role as digital radio services in the five Station grants support community radio stations to purchase studio equipment (not transmission in the Australian media landscape, mainland capitals. equipment) and to fund other projects. Check the grant guidelines before applying. Chat to Grants offering ‘alternate format’ (spoken word) access to print media for those To highlight the importance of their Administrator Georgie Boucher at the conference or on (03) 9419 8055 for advice as you apply. with a print disability. service, RPH have developed ‘The RPH Radio Reading Network - a Profile’ a Website Development Grants comprehensive document detailing all Looking to create or update your online presence? Community radio and TV stations and sector aspects of their service, available at: radio www.rph.org.au organisations can apply now for a CBF Website Development grant of up to $5,000. Applications close stations 31 January 2013.

1,750 1,500 The NEMBC Christian Media Australia After 8 years of service, Christian Media hours of programming weekly The NEMBC National Conference, farewells David Turrell Australia CEO is moving on. David has volunteers Keep up our to date 'Diversity=Reality: Stop Racism' will be made a significant contribution to the with RPH community organisation and to the sector as a What is a Print held in Adelaide from 23-25 November. on the Disability? Cochlear implant recipients also * As community broadcasters, benefit from RPH programs. They whole over the last eight years. RPH Network members are learn to relate spoken sounds airwaves urr licensed to serve a particular with the words they represent by This year’s NEMBC conference community of interest: Australians reading along as they listen to RPH T since with a print disability. broadcasts of the daily newspaper. This change will not only signify Today, 3.8 million Australians – or Students of English as a second features Keynote Speaker Dr Helen 18.4% of the population – live with language find RPH broadcasts 1978 avid a print disability. helpful for a similar reason. By

D ell big changes for David, but also for reading the newspaper as they Szoke, Australia’s Race Discrimination Generally speaking, a print tune in to RPH’s alternate format disability encompasses: programming, they match the Christian Media Australia as they seek • Literacy issues including sounds with the written words Commissioner; and the popular Q close to 4 million the ability to speak but not and learn spelling, pronunciation read English and spoken emphasis. • Vision impairment including and A panel will return again as part to build on the success and growth the australians have total and partial vision loss • Learning impairment including certain forms of dyslexia organisation has experienced for the “Australia’s print handicapped of the main plenary. The panel will a print disability • Physical impairment such as population consists of people quadriplegia, severe arthritis who through age, disability or Multiple Sclerosis. past decade. or literacy problems are unable feature leaders from the community The many diverse causes of print to physically handle books and disability mean that it takes no newspapers or otherwise read or ‘typical’ form. broadcasting sector addressing the comprehend written material.” A profile Those with a print disability may “I am looking forward to the change and not identify as such, given that Federal Department The RPH Radio Reading Network of Communications conference theme and, of course, it is often one facet of a wider Review, 1986 impairment. hope to maintain the strong friendships Older people are significantly more likely to develop a print disability answering the hard questions from as a consequence of ageing. I have built up over the years. I just www.rph.org.au 5 the audience. know that the time is right for me to There is still time to register and don’t step into the next part of my Christian forget to check if you are eligible for a journey", says David. Them com unity broadcasting sector is made up of the following peak representative bodies: subsidy – all the details and registration The CBAA would like to congratulate Australian Indigenous Communications Association (AICA) • Australia Community Television Alliance (ACTA) forms are available online. David for all of his success in the role of Christian Media Australia (CMA) • Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) Christian Media Australia and wish him National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcaster’s Council (NEMBC) • Radio for the Print Handicapped Australia (RPH) Find out all the details on the NEMBC all the best for his future. The Community Broadcasting Foundation (CBF) is the sector’s funding body. website: www.nembc.org.au

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16 The Magazine of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia • November 2012 www.cbaa.org.au/cbx 17 By > Chris Yates TRADE IN station CBX Editor YOUR OLD TRANSMITTER station Off set the price of your new transmitter. Available from 15 watts to 20KW It’s not unusual for smaller community Melbourne Radio School, she joined the ‘Detours’ and supports other programs radio stations to learn from the JOY news team as a newsreader in 2007. through his links to other GLBT success of their larger peers in the After completing a six month stint at that organisations, such as the Anti-Violence sector, and skill sharing or even station she returned to WYN-FM. Project. He has some very clear and just talking about ideas is a great practiced ideas about what has helped Templeton started on radio at WYN- way to develop and use proven JOY grow as a station. FM, guest hosting on the show ‘A Dog’s systems to help make things run Breakfast with the Zarvoz Brothers’ until “Strong board leadership is key to how better and smoother. 88.9 WYN-FM the show finished in 2006. After doing JOY progresses and develops,” he says. and JOY 94.9 have taken this one a variety of shows and other jobs at the step further, establishing a mentor- When Templeton was seeking out station, Templeton became the station style partnership between two very support in her new role, she immediately manager in 2011. different community broadcasters to knew where to look. provide an example to the community “One of the first things I did as President “I contacted Greg in my capacity as broadcasting sector about how of 88.9 WYN-FM was get in touch with President of WYN-FM because I knew effective sharing knowledge can be. my friend Greg Adkins,” says Templeton. straight away that there was a golden “I developed a friendship with Greg Amber Templeton, President of WYN-FM opportunity for our two stations to work during my stint as a Newsreader at JOY has been in love with radio since she together,” says Amber. “Whilst WYN- back in 2007. We stayed in touch after was very young. When she decided that FM has been operating since 1995, I finished at JOY and Greg has been a she was not going to pursue a full time we are a very small station and have a great support to me over the years.” career in commercial radio, she instead limited number of volunteers and very pursued community radio as a full time Adkins has been an integral part of the small membership base. On the other hobby and passion. After completing JOY team since he first joined them end of the spectrum is JOY - a large the Introduction to Radio course at in the mid 90s. He is a volunteer on station with hundreds of volunteers and thousands of members. My idea was that JOY could share with WYN-FM some of the experiences they had gone through during their growth over the years.” “The general idea was to develop and form a mentor-style relationship between the two stations. Greg was very open to this suggestion and took the idea back to the JOY Board. I was pleased and excited to learn that they too, were keen on this idea and from there, it took off.” In an effort to further share their combined knowledge, Amber and BROADCAST SPECIALISTS Greg have developed projects to further benefit the sector, including a workshop at the 2012 CBAA Access All Areas Conference entitled www.wynfm.org.au ‘Mentoring Great Radio – How Community Leads Commercial’. www.joy.org.au Call: Glenn Welsh on 07 3266 6779 or email [email protected] 18 The Magazine of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia • November 2012 The Quarterly Magazine of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia December 09 www.n-com.com.au • www.cbaa.org.au/cbx 19 popular breakfast program represents a lot of the non-technical duties that can be expected of a producer. He says coming up with new ways to present information for a long running show had its own challenges, and he had to try and keep things fresh for the program’s announcer. “After his many years in the industry the challenge was to find new angles so that even interviewing the same person many times could have several new lives,” Peter says. “News stories that he found had to be researched and checked. There was no technical side to this work.” Peter has seen the tech skills involved in editing change dramatically during his time in the radio industry. He started aniel

D working with tape by slicing it with a blade and playing commercials on often felt isolated, marginalised, and range of innovative projects involving

abriel air from vinyl records. He has seen G vulnerable. Community radio enabled an over 500 participants. the benefits of digital editing and the anonymous reach out support service. “The Jailbreak Health Project is dramatic and instant affect they have Kate says that Jailbreak is more than particularly proud of its initiative, photo by photo on the sound of radio. He has been just a radio program and as such takes achievements and service to priority teaching the skills of digital editing to a holistic approach to how the program populations in community radio high school students at Coast FM in is produced. Like many other programs mentorship, specifically for ex-inmates and will soon start classes in providing a service to the community, and youth at risk,” Kate says. automation at 4NAG in Yeppoon. He says she has to think about all aspects of that high quality production is essential The educational and personal what the program does and how to to any radio station, especially smaller therapeutic benefits are demonstrable incorporate this into the show. stations in the community sector. and include skills in program While the technical skills of everyone presenting, voice production, voice dio “Everything that the community ra involved in Jailbreak mean that the on recordings and sound editing, as well ing station produces is aired alongside mak air sound of the program is smooth and as many areas outside of the production ation material produced by professional record St consistent, a lot of pre-production goes sphere. companies, production houses or major In 2012 the CBAA Conference added a new award category for Best into making sure the show sounds as community stations. These people have The show has been running for 15 Production. The award acknowledges the hard work that goes on behind the professional as it does - and this is not developed skills that make their product years, and Kate and the team are limited to pre-recording interviews, scenes to make the shows you love the best listening experience they can be. very acceptable to the ear. Even if your understandably very proud of their editing material and all the other sound program is good, the sound quality and achievements. Recently they received based elements of the program. Kate presentation can distract people from a lot of attention when US film star and her co-presenters Lyn Bond and the message. Make your work as easy as and rapper Ice Cube appeared on the Ariane Minc (as well as a small army of Peter Gill is a trainer for the Community you can by listening to other product and program to discuss issues surrounding By > Chris Yates volunteers and other contributors) go to Media Training Organisation (CMTO), setting a good standard.” those in the criminal justice system. CBX Editor giving him the opportunity to share his great lengths to make sure the content 50 years of experience in radio with Kate Pinnock performs the dual roles of of the program meets the goals they set Kate says being involved as producer students and volunteers keen to learn producer and presenter for the popular out to achieve. and presenter on the program has had community radio program Jailbreak. a massive impact on her personally. The role of a producer in the all they can to make their programs the Learning everything she knew about best listening experience possible for community radio sector varies wildly. Jailbreak was established to meet radio from UTS and 2SER in Sydney, “Presenting this program is most their audiences. Often it may be simply the presenters a recognised need to support and Kate and the team now share their amazing job I’ve ever done,” she says. contributing to the pre-production of Peter says that the role of a producer provide information to families in knowledge via the Jailbreak Health “What I’ve leant over the last 4 years a show, or it could be a small team has never been clear cut. When he the community affected by jail who Project which has facilitated a diverse has changed my life!” organising interviews, setting up retired from full time employment in equipment, picking music – just about 2008 he took a role at a commercial any aspect of making a show you can AM station in Cairns to get more Jlrai b eak can be heard on 2SER FM Sydney, 2MIA Griffith, 3CR in Melbourne via the Community . think of. CBX talks to two very different experience in voice skills. While he To find out how your station can broadcast Jailbreak visit http://www.cbaa.org.au/crn community radio producers to ask to didn’t get the opportunity of an on-air demystify the production process. role, what he did as producer for the To find out more about training in radio with CMTO visit www.CMTO.org.au

20 The Magazine of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia • November 2012 www.cbaa.org.au/cbx 21 “For reaching people in rural environments — up there in the mountains and in the valleys — you’re talking about community radio. In many districts it’s the only source of outside information, apart from human beings.”

So Joaquim, whose interest had been in Timorese community radio broadcasters Interview by > Jenny Denton politics, decided to start with what he did are eating lunch out of takeaway Freelancer/3CR know how to do. containers and soaking up some Melbourne Spring sunshine in a break He began talking to local leaders—the between workshops. Ten broadcasters, from all over district administrator and people from East Timor, were recently in Australia the hospital, school and church—about The training, covering management, for a five-week training program what they’d like to hear on the radio, leadership, community engagement Prezado Ximenes, president ARKTL, photo by Joaquim de Fatima Coutinho put together by the APJC and funded and invited them to a planning meeting, and radio production, consists of by AusAid through its Australian where he told them the new station presentations from NGOs, media Leadership Awards program. belonged to the whole community. professionals and academics and some of whom have worked in not everybody in East Timor speaks For Radio Lorico-Lian, in Dili, which workshops with the Community Media When Joaquim de Fatima Coutinho first Two years later Radio Maubisse has community radio for 10 years, without Tetum or Portuguese, it broadcasts Prezado runs, the major challenge, Training Organisation and Melbourne’s saw the equipment for the radio station a listenership of nearly a third of the ever receiving much training. in local languages. he says, is engaging and supporting 3CR Community Radio. It includes visits he’d agreed to manage he was scared. town’s population and enjoys broad a growing population in establishing to radio stations, meetings with East While the broader media landscape Despite its strength, the sector faces community support. community and building peace. "I went to my mentor, the bishop of Timor friendship societies and even a in East Timor is fairly healthy, with serious challenges — not least of Maliana, and I said, 'Hey boss, I can’t "When I say they support us," Joaquim trip to Sovereign Hill, the reconstructed a national radio and television them surviving financially. For Joaquim and his team at Radio do this; it’s too hard,'" Joaquim says. says, laughing, "it doesn’t mean they 1850s gold rush town outside . broadcaster, two commercial radio Maubisse the priority is training and support us with money." stations, one commercial TV station "We wanted to learn more from equipment, and in the longer term "He told me, 'Just because you've President of East Timor’s community and a handful of newspapers operating, community radio stations like 3CR finding a home for the station, which finished your formal education, it doesn’t Joaquim is sitting in the garden of the radio association, ARKTL, Prezado it’s East Timor’s 16 community radio in Melbourne about how to survive is currently running out of two rooms mean you stop learning. This is an Asia Pacific Journalism Centre (APJC) Ximenes, says the program has been a stations that are the heavy lifters of the long-term," says Prezado, who has in somebody’s house. opportunity to learn something else.'" in North Carlton, where a group of East great opportunity for the broadcasters, country’s media. been inspired by 3CR’s example of community participation. Joaquim says he’s learning a lot on APJC director John Wallace, who came his first trip outside of Timor—from up with the idea for the program, says Prezado is confident that the the cultural experience as well as that in contrast to the Australian context, broadcasters who have come here the amazing amount of information where community radio is a niche will be able to pass what they’ve learnt presented in the training program. activity, in East Timor it’s often ‘the only on to their colleagues back home game in town’. and that next time AKRTL can run its One thing that’s surprised him has own general training program. But been seeing how normal it is here for "For reaching people in rural people to kiss in public. environments — up there in the he’s hopeful the initiative here might mountains and in the valleys — you’re be followed up with training in online "I’ve learnt that when we come to a talking about community radio. In many media, which is still a new concept in new place we have to respect what districts it’s the only source of outside East Timor. happens there," he says, laughing. information, apart from human beings." As well as dealing with the big issues, For people with such serious jobs, It’s also the only media which is individual stations have their own the Timorese crew are a pretty light- localised, and importantly, given particular priorities. hearted bunch.

22 The Magazine of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia • November 2012 www.cbaa.org.au/cbx 23 COMMUNITY RADIO NETWORK PROGRAM GUIDE NOVEMBER 2012 National Radio News (4 min) on the half hour from 06:00-09:00 and every hour from 09:00-19:00 Mon-Fri, and on the hour from 06:00-12:00 Sat-Sun BBC World News (5 min) at 00:01 & 05:01

TIME MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN 05:01 BBC World News By > Leo Bradney-George 05:06 Good Morning Country (live) Music fill - new program coming soon Nothin but the Blues (R) programmer/director, The best in country music to kickstart your morning. 2bbb fm 06:00 Saturday Breakfast (live) Countryfolk Around Incorporating Rural News 05:15, Rural Livestock 05:30, Rural Outlook 05:45 & Rural Commerce Report 06:05 Australia (live)

However, enterprises like this require 07:00 dedicated individuals who sometimes have to move on, and for a while the 08:00 van came to be used less frequently. This factor, combined with the usual economic difficulties, led to discussions 09:04 WorldLink The History Show The Why Factor If You Love This Planet Vision Australia Hour Real World Gardener In a Sentimental Mood about whether our beloved OB1 would Spectrum (09:30) Jumping Jellybeans 2bbb is a community radio station At some time in the mid-90s a couple have to be sold. 10:04 Alternative Radio A Question of Balance Anarchist World Wellbeing Tech Gloomy Sunday The Bohemian Beat broadcasting throughout the Bellingen of board members discussed the This Week In 2009 Bellingen endured one of 10:32 On The Money Homepage Shire, on the mid-north coast of NSW. possibility of an outside broadcast its worst floods for a while, and our Due to the topography of the region, we unit, and it was suggested that one of 11:04 Repeats or Music Repeats or Music Repeats or Music Repeats or Music Repeats or Music Beyond Zero Latino Plus building was inundated with 15 cms have 2 frequencies: 93.3 and 107.3 (and those old egg-shaped caravans would Radio Atticus of water. That’s another story, but now on the internet via 2bbb.net.au). be perfect. Not long afterwards, one the upshot is that, while the studios 12:04 Rural News, Rural Outlook, Rural Livestock, Daily Interview Arts Alive (R) My World of those board members, Tark, was We first began transmission in 1980 were being refurbished, our little blue 12:30 This Way Out (12:31) Radioactive (12:32) Mungo MacCallum (12:32) / QNN (12.55) WINGS (12:31) Nat. Indg. News Review driving along the highway when he from the showroom of a local service caravan became our home, parked in The Fourth Estate Listen to Older Voices Extras 1 Cinemascape Women on the Line The Mike McColl Show saw such a caravan travelling in the 13:04 station thanks to the proprietor, Carl the showroom of Carl Foster’s garage – (live) opposite direction. He turned around, 13:32 Writers Radio Accent of Women Lost in Science Living is Easy Pulse Foster. In time, the generosity of back where it all began! caught up with the driver, negotiated a Let the Bands Play Nothin but the Blues Extras 2 Jazz Made in Australia Off The Record (R) Ultima Thule another member of the community, 14:04 sale on the spot, and drove off with it. Since then, it has had a new lease of life, Clover Wade, meant that we had some thanks largely to the enthusiasm of local land on which to establish a permanent 2bbb now had an outside broadcast van, 15:04 Repeats or Music Repeats or Music Repeats or Music Repeats or Music Repeats or Music high school student Sam Vallins, and home. The tireless efforts of many affectionately dubbed OB1. This meant co-presenters Scotty Peters and Taylor Red Velvet volunteers soon resulted in what is that we could get out and about in the Timms and, of course, all the volunteers 16:04 Arts Alive Primary Perspectives Diffusion Under African Skies Earth Matters Wrokdown Radio Concert Hour reputed to be the first mud brick radio community and have live broadcasts from who help to transport it. OB1 is now once station in the world. It has been home to many local events including markets, and 16:32 All the Best Never Talk Politics again regularly seen at all kinds of local the 2bbb ‘family’ for nearly thirty years. Bellingen’s Global Carnival. 17:04 The Wire – national independent current affairs A Jazz Hour Deadly Sounds events – markets, the Bellingen Jazz MungoMacCallum B.SoundLiveTrain Festival, street stalls, etc. 17:30 Shorts Overdrive I. Motorspt In.News R. The World w.TimStackpl. 18:04 The Phantom Dancer Classic Matters Stick Together Global Village The Strand Top of the Pops 1hr Fine Music Live We all feel very fortunate here at 2bbb Jailbreak to have a beautiful, permanent home, 18:32 and surely one of the most unique and 19:04 Asia Calling The Book Club New York Jazz Word For Word Jazz Made in Aust. (R) It’s Time (R) charming OB vans anywhere. 20:00 It’s Time Democracy Now! Spotlight AudioSyncracies Bluesbeat (R) Hit Parade of Yesterday

21:00 Home Brew Amrap AirIt Charts Music fill - new pro- A Jazz Hour (R) Off the Record (R) Conversation (live) gram coming soon

22:00 Off the Record The Martini Hour Songwriters Across Sounds Revolution The Hard Way New Releases Show Australia

23:00 Tecka’s Tracks (R) Music fill - new pro- Beale Street Caravan Contact! Indij Hip Hop Show Home Brew (R) gram coming soon

TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON 00:01 BBC World News 00:06 The Bohemian Beat (R) Nothin but the Blues (R) Latino Plus (R) Deadly Sounds (R) Amrap AirIt Charts (R) National Rock & Under African Skies (R) Blues Show 00:30

01:00 Contact! (R) Sub-sequence New Releases Show (R) AudioSyncracies (R) The Martini Hour (R) It’s Time (R)

02:00 Jazz Made in Aust. (R) New York Jazz (R) A Jazz Hour (R) The Breeze (R) Global Village (R) Tecka’s Tracks My World (R)

03:00 Classic Matters (R) Let The Bands Play (R) In a Sentimental Hit Parade of Yesterday The Phantom Dancer Mood (R) (R) (R)

04:00 Spotlight (R) Off the Record (R) Gloomy Sunday (R) Wrokdown (R) Beale Street Caravan (R) Bluesbeat Songwriters Across Australia (R) 24 The Magazine of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia • November 2012 www.cbaa.org.au/cbx All times AEST/AEDT. Visit www.cbaa.org.au/crn for full descriptions and latest updates (R) = repeat Does your station need computers & software?

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