Community Broadcasting Foundation Annual Report 2016 Snapshot 2015.16 500 $200M 24,600 Licensed community owned and The Community Broadcasting Foundation has given more operated broadcasting services making than $200M in grants since 1984. Volunteers involved in community broadcasting Australia's community broadcasting largest independent media sector. 230 70% 5,800 This year the Community Broadcasting 70% of community radio and television People trained each year in Foundation allocated 617 grants totaling services are located in regional, rural media skills, leadership skills $ $15,882,792 to 230 organisations. and remote areas. The median income and digital literacy. at regional and rural stations is $52,900. 42% of regional and rural stations are 605M wholly volunteer operated. With a turnover of over $120m and the economic value of its volunteer effort estimated at $485m per annum, the community broadcasting sector makes a significant contribution to the 78% 8,743 Australian economy. 78% of all community radio broadcast 8,743 hours of specialist programming in an average week time is local content. Local news and information is the primary reason Australians listen to community radio. Religious Ethnic + RPH Cover: 100.3 Bay FM broadcaster Hannah Sbeghen. This photo taken 5M Indigenous by Sean Smith won the Exterior/ 27% of Australians aged over Interior category in the CBF’s Focus 15 listen to community radio in an LGBTIQ on Community Broadcasting Photo average week. 808,000 listen exclusively Competition. to community radio. 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 Community Broadcasting Foundation Annual Report 2016 1 Success Stories Leveraging support to expand Success broadcast range Coastal FM broadcasts to the Stories northwest coast of Tasmania, with the main transmitter located The increase in phone in Wynyard and additional calls and visits to our transmitter sites in Devonport and Smithton. studio indicates that To upgrade the additional sites, the the expanded coverage station leveraged their grant from the CBF area has improved with support from a range of partners, including the Tasmanian Government, a our listening audience local agricultural company and the local amateur radio club. dramatically. - Brian Shearston, Station Chair Dragon Dreaming - the life and art of Kushia Young is a documentary Pictured: Kushia Young about a young, deaf, Indigenous artist from Dragon Dreaming remote Kalka in APY Ninti Media received a grant to assist with the production of a Lands as she prepares documentary, auspiced and broadcast by Indigenous Community for her first public Television. The documentary examines Kushia’s unique artistry, combining elements of traditional exhibition. Indigenous arts practice with mythical Asian subject matters, while navigating isolation, disability and cultural integration. A short version of the film won the Open Entrant Documentary Judges Choice at the 2015 Focus on Ability Short Film Festival, and the full film was nominated for Best Documentary in the 2016 South Australian Screen Awards. Ninti Media also raised $5,265 through a Kickstarter campaign to cover travel, accommodation and arts materials for Kushia and her family to go to Adelaide for Kushia’s first public arts exhibition, which was filmed as part of the documentary. ▲ View the documentary Coastal FM - Dion and Scott installing the power divider at the Devonport site Community Broadcasting Foundation Annual Report 2016 2 Success Stories Writings from the Dark Success Writings from the Dark is a series Stories of six short powerful poetry recitals from writer and performer Steven Oliver. … so question yourself. The poems were originally written for Challenge ideals, start a broadcast on Brisbane Indigenous revolution. Are you a part Media Association’s FM and digital radio services. of this country’s problem The video series breathes new life into or the solution? each poem, featuring Steven reciting each poem direct to camera and transposes – Steven Oliver text and images around Steven’s portrait. Writings from the Dark enabled Brisbane Indigenous Media Association to partner new Indigenous trainees with Steven to learn on the job while producing the series. ▲ Bumma Bippera Media The grant helped Brisbane Indigenous Media Association to produce the series View brings the dances alive to for broadcast in remote Indigenous the series the listeners and makes communities via ICTV. Pictured: Aunty Evelyn, Bumma Bippera Media them feel like they are there at the festival. Sharing knowledge and rich traditions - Jackie Tim, Station Manager Cairns-based station, Bumma Bippera Media have been covering the Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival for 21 years. With CBF support, this major biennial cultural event was highlighted through an outside broadcast involving a large team of broadcasters and participants from over twenty communities from Cape York and Northern Queensland. Story-telling through dance, language and song took place around the sacred "Bora Ring", showcasing traditional dance handed down through millennia. The broadcast captured the strength, pride and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture celebrated by the Festival and spread it far and wide, with 8-10 hours of content broadcast locally and nationally. Community Broadcasting Foundation Annual Report 2016 3 Success Stories Unity in Diversity Success A CBF grant helped ethnic community stations in Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne, Stories Sydney and Perth to join together to produce a special day-long national broadcast celebrating multiculturalism. It featured interviews and segments highlighting the achievements of people migrating to Australia, with each station contributing diverse perspectives and stories drawn from their local communities. This was the first time Pictured: Presenter, Ana Gudalo in 4EB studio these stations have worked as one in Community connections collaboration to produce A CBF grant supported the employment of a Community Connections Coordinator a national broadcast at Yarra Valley FM in Woori Yallock, showcasing ethnic Victoria. The new role helped to increase the station’s profile in the local area The grant allowed Yarra programming, program and engage with even more community Valley FM to increase diversity, cultural diversity groups. Over a 12 month period the station’s our profile and visibility and music. social media following increased by 120% and community service announcements within the community. – Kym Green, 5EBI featured 77 community groups. New We organised outside weekly, fortnightly and monthly segments have been introduced to showcase broadcasts and local community services and create new opportunities for involvement in interviewed community broadcasting. members. Sixteen new members participated in – Rodney Ball, Yarra Valley FM President training to become presenters and the station is out and about broadcasting events such as Homeless Prevention Week. Pictured: Yarra Valley FM - Simone chats with Rebecca Heery from Cystic Fibrosis Victoria at Brodie's Heroes Family Fun Day Community Broadcasting Foundation Annual Report 2016 4 President and CEO report The structures, practices and values of Gift in Wills program who make the Foundation’s operation community broadcasting are increasingly possible through many hours of work Report of the President important to Australian society, particularly The Foundation’s Gifts in Wills program on our grants advisory committees and given the disruptive impact on all media has seen launch events held in on the CBF Board. Particular thanks are and CEO of the digital revolution and globalisation. Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide with offered to a number of dedicated Board Recognising this, the Foundation is open planning underway for launches in other members who were farewelled this year: to broad operational change to ensure capital cities. All community broadcasters Rachel Maher, Geoff Payne, Heinrich that our funding processes can assist the and supporters are invited to help Stefanik, Brett Leavy and Libby Jamieson. community broadcasting sector to adapt strengthen the sector as a whole over the Thanks also to retiring Grants Advisory and thrive within a rapidly evolving media long term by leaving a gift, however large Committee members: Henk de Weerd, landscape. or small. Neil Rogers, Bob Rau, Terry Mather, Bec + Petraitis, Travis Cardona, Scott Black, CBF Structure & Governance Nelson Conboy, John McGuinness, Jackie Review Read more Tim, Wayne Bynder, Jan Huggett, Jacquie Chilvers, Seraphim Slade, Luke Pearson The Foundation promotes an open about our Gift in Wills program and Lesley Radloff. dialogue with stakeholders within the sector and with government but Join the conversation operates at arms-length from both Fundraising Development - our independence is essential for The Foundation shares grant outcomes This year we made significant headway and funding opportunities via our website fair, equitable and transparent grants in the development of our fundraising processes. Recognising the important role and on social media. To never miss a capability. We are working to complement, grant opportunity and hear the latest we play in supporting the development, extend and amplify the Australian creativity and sustainability of community news from the Foundation all community Government’s ongoing investment in broadcasters are encouraged to Pictured: (from left) Peter Batchelor and Ian Stanistreet broadcasting, the Foundation has recently community broadcasting. Early efforts significantly reformed