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Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Annual Report 2011 - 2012 Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Limited (A Company Limited by Guarantee) ACN 003 108 030 Contents COMMUNITY BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED Company Details 1 Board & Committees 2 CBAA Staff 4 Presiden’s Report 5 Finance Director’s Report 6 Corporate Information 7 Directors’ Report 8 Auditor’s Independence Declaration 12 Statement of Comprehensive Income 13 Statement of Financial Position 14 Statement of Changes in Funds 15 Statement of Cash Flow 16 Notes to the Financial Statements 17 Directors’ Declaration 27 Independent Audit Report 28 Disclaimer 29 Detailed Division and Project Results 30 General Manager’s Report 49 Technical Consultant’s Report 52 CBAA Membership Listing 56 Company Details COMMUNITY BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED Name Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Status of organisation Company Limited by Guarantee Place of establishment Alexandria NSW Australia Founded 1974 Date of incorporation 27th June 1986 ACN Number 003 108 030 Address 44-54 Botany Rd Alexandria NSW Australia 2015 Telephone (02) 9310 2999 Fax (02) 9319 4545 Email [email protected] Website http://www.cbaa.org.au Community Broadcasting The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia is the ethnic & multicultural, educational, youth, religious, national peak body for community broadcasting licensees. specialist music, print handicapped, and a broad range In addition to its role in advocacy and representation and of general community radio services servicing local providing services for members, the CBAA also manages communities. sector-wide national projects including Amrap, the Digital Stations operate primarily through fundraising, Radio Project and the CBOnline Project. sponsorship, subscription, program access and limited Australia has a unique and highly developed community Federal Government funding support provided through broadcasting sector with over 350 licensed community the Community Broadcasting Foundation. broadcasting stations and the involvement of over Community broadcasting reflects a commitment to 20,000 volunteers. Licenses were first issued in 1972 access and participation, training, and content relevant to to not-for-profit organisations to provide alternative and local communities and specific communities of interest. complementary broadcast services to those provided by 4.4m or 25% of the Australian community aged 15+ the commercial and national sectors, and access to the listen to community radio each week (McNair Ingenuity community in generating local media content. Research 2012). The sector is extremely diverse with licenses allocated both geographically and according to specific communities of interest. Approximately 70% of stations are located in regional and remote areas. In capital cities there are both metropolitan-wide services and sub-metropolitan services. Communities of interest include Indigenous, Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Limited • Annual Report 2011-2012 • page 1 of 60 Board & Committees (as at 30 June 2012) COMMUNITY BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED CBAA Board Adrian Basso President 3PBS Melbourne John MacInnes Vice President 3WAY Melbourne Phillip Randall Finance Director 2CBA Sydney Jonathan Brown Board Director 3SYN Melbourne Peter Rohweder Board Director 4EB Brisbane Melanie Withnall Board Director 2SER Sydney Jean Rau Board Director 3NOW Victoria Anna Wheildon Women’s Representative 4BVR Brisbane Bradley Duence Youth Representative 7EDG Tasmania Finance Standing Committee Adrian Basso President, CBAA Phillip Randall Finance Director Kath Letch General Manager, CBAA Conference Sub-Committee Amy Moon Membership & Development Manager, CBAA Jonathan Brown CBAA Board Director Melanie Withnall CBAA Board Director Jean Rau CBAA Board Director Anna Wheildon Women’s Representative Satellite Advisory Committee John MacInnes Chair; 3WAY Rob Meaton 2BOB Bob Rau 3NOW Shane Elson 3GCR Russell Coghlan 6SEN Rosslyn Elliot 2BAY Brian Warren 2UUU Seth Jordan Content Services Manager, CBAA Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Limited • Annual Report 2011-2012 • page 2 of 60 Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Limited • Annual Report 2011-2012 • page 3 of 60 Board & Committees (as at 30 June 2012) COMMUNITY BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED SECTOR PROJECT COMMITTEES Digital Radio Consultative Committee (DRCC) Phillip Randall Chair; CBAA Melanie Withnall Sydney DRC Representative; 2SER Cameron Paine Melbourne DRC Representative; 3MBS Peter Rohweder Brisbane DRC Representative; 4EB Peter Luckett Perth DRC Representative; 6RPH Hans Reimer Adelaide DRC Representative; 5RPH CBAA Advisers (DRCC) Kath Letch General Manager, CBAA Philip Shine Project Manager Alex White Project Assistant David Sice Technical Consultant, CBAA Observers (DRCC): Ian Stanistreet CBF Executive Director Sector Projects Consultative Committee (SPCC) Adrian Basso Chair / President, CBAA Kath Letch CBAA General Manager Peter Luckett RPH Australia Chair Tiga Bayles AICA President Russell Anderson NEMBC Executive Officer David Turrell CMA CEO Observers: Ian Stanistreet CBF Executive Director Judy Hiscox DBCDE Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Limited • Annual Report 2011-2012 • page 3 of 60 CBAA Staff (as at 30 June 2012) COMMUNITY BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED CBAA Staff Kath Letch General Manager Rhonda Byrne Administration & Operations Manager Amy Moon Membership & Development Manager Robin Carter Finance Coordinator Danny Chifley Administration Assistant Christina Ward Casual administration Vacant EA / Administrative Assistant CRN - Community Radio Network Seth Jordan Content Services Manager Martin Walters Satellite Operations Coordinator Dan Callaghan Production Coordinator Technical Development David Sice Technical Consultant SECTOR PROJECTS AMRAP Chris Johnson Project Manager Brooke Olsen Distribution Coordinator Vicki Ing Communications Coordinator Ben Briedis IT Programmer Ruben Thijssen Software Developer CBOnline Stephen Hahn Project Manager DRP – Digital Radio Project Philip Shine Project Manager Alex White DRP Operations Coordinator David Sice DRP Technical Consultant Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Limited • Annual Report 2011-2012 • page 4 of 60 Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Limited • Annual Report 2011-2012 • page 5 of 60 President’s Report COMMUNITY BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED The 2012 National Listener Survey highlights the sector’s • consultation and review of the Community Radio reach and impact across Australia, with an impressive one Broadcasting Codes of Practice; and in four radio listeners tuning in to community radio every • planning and advocacy for affordable access for all week. That’s a sizeable number in anyone’s game! This community radio stations to the digital radio platform, is coupled with the 2011 biennial Station Census, which including regional and sub-metro stations. indentified two main themes: (1) we are doing more for less; and (2) our regional and rural stations have done it toughest The CBAA continues to maintain and develop member since the Global Financial Crisis. It is a reoccurring theme support and services through the role of our Membership that we achieve an enormous amount with very little fuel. & Development Manager. Core communications strategies of the CBAA website, enews and the CBX magazine Despite this the sector continues to struggle to receive full that is mailed to all members have been maintained and recognition for all the great work we do. We have been developed in 2011-12. A number of stations have utilised most alarmed that both Amrap and the Digital Radio Project the CBAA / IAMA Dispute Resolution Initiative for mediation have had their funding cut in 2012, totally and in part, services throughout the year, and many have accessed the respectively. These cuts are a backward step in supporting advice and support provided on a day-to-day basis by the the distribution of Australian music to community stations CBAA. and broadcasters, and put at serious risk the sector’s long- held ambition to secure and maintain a place in the digital The CBAA remains committed to development of radio landscape. The reduction in support for the Digital the Community Radio Network (CRN) and ongoing Radio Project harms our ability to expand digital into the development of the associated Digital Delivery Network regions and maintain it in the cities. (DDN) for national program distribution. The Content Services Manager position was introduced in 2012 to So many changes are occurring in the consumption of oversee CRN and national program development and also media. Business models that sustain traditional media support our partnership with Charles Sturt University for are collapsing (look at Fairfax and Channel 9). New global the National Radio News service. organisations are emerging (look at Facebook and Twitter). Maintaining the role community broadcasting plays in The CBAA has developed a revised Strategic Plan for 2012- providing a platform for local voices has never been more 2015 that focuses on our national role in representation important – for instance, some 30% of community stations and advocacy of community broadcasting interests, and are the only producers of local content in their broadcast support and services to member stations. A copy of the area. Strategic Plan is available on the CBAA website. We’re always