INSIDE > Meet our first Indigenous broadcaster > Why we should all worry about the new terror laws > New SA music on The Piping Shrike Hour > NAIDOC 2006 coverage > Jazz legends and innovators WINTER 2006 PROGRAM GUIDE Our new tra nsmitter arrives a t Mt Lofty see inside for details of when we switch on Radioand Adelaide power Program Guide upWinter 2006 i ii There was a bit of heaving and a lot of ho ho ho at Mount Lofty on May 17, when our new 5 kilowatt transmitter arrived packed in a couple of big boxes. This transmitter was partly funded through the donations of our supporters during our powering up campaign of 2002/03 and is the final part of the upgrade to our FM transmission, following our move We are a community radio station to a new site with larger antenna in owned and operated by The University of Adelaide. 2003. The other half of the money came from a grant form the Federal In Adelaide tune into 101.5 FM Everywhere else streaming in Real Audio Government through the Community at radio.adelaide.edu.au Broadcasting Foundation, which we We provide diverse radio to Adelaide greatly appreciate. and the world with a focus on lifelong learning, arts, ideas, news, local issues, For tech heads it's an RVR 5000 current affairs and good music in many watt solid state FM transmitter with 5 genres. plug in RF power transmitters, plug We have a large and committed team of in power supply, single 30-watt high volunteers and a small core staff. We're not for profit and rely on the active performance FM exciter with auto support of our listeners. change over. For the rest of us it is a Radio Adelaide technicans Brian Nash and Jeff Rowley on the left, with the team from Adelaide Hills Removals in green and Radio Adelaide's Don Balaz Subscription 5 kilowatt transmitter to replace our and Peter Godfrey, celebrate successfully opening the box. We stand for Diversity, Innovation, 2kW transmitter as our main unit, Access & Independence. Your support is with the 2kW becoming our back up vital for this unique service to continue. It costs only $52 per year; $26 if you hold – the first time we’ve had a back up since we went FM in 2001. The 5 plug in power a current government concession card transmitters mean it has 5 separate sources of power. This means that if one bit blows we and it's tax deductible. just continue with the other 4 until it is fixed – great security against off air events. And of contact Olivia Power course, who can live without a high performance exciter? Sponsorship/On Air Promotions Over 65,000 attentive, active and So what difference will it make? curious listeners each week; interested in good music, the arts and new ideas. When it’s operating, our broadcast power or ‘output’ will go from our current 7kilowatts Competitive rates, window display & to around 12 or 13 kW. So we’ll be louder, stronger, clearer and go a bit further! Program Guide packages are available. contact Max Hicks And when do we turn it on? Radio Adelaide Training Some electrical upgrades by the site owners, along with new cabling, piping and We are a Registered Training Organisation providing nationally switching devices need to be installed and this work will proceed over the next month. accredited training. We specialise in We’re anticipating a switch on in the second half of June. Keep listening to us for details. tailoring training to the needs of groups We’ll be keen to hear your feedback as to how we sound across the metropolitan and and individuals. near regional areas. contact Nicky Page Audio Production Services And now our FM broadcast chain is looking good, its time to turn our minds to the digital Our studios and production facilities are fully equipped for digital & analogue future. The government has announced a switch on date of 2009, with co-existence of production and are available for hire. digital and AM/FM. As always, stay tuned! We specialise in recording events, cassette and CD duplication and message-on-hold services. After 34 years you deserve a weekend away! contact Don Balaz, Darren van Schaik street & postal address It’s just a guess, but we suspect it was wet and cold on June 28, 1972, the day Radio 228 North Tce. Adelaide was born. Across the city, people huddled in front of fireplaces and single bar Adelaide, SA 5000 phone 08 8303 5000 radiators and listened in awe as the new arrival made its first tentative sounds. fax 08 8303 4374 And we haven’t shut up since. Except for a few days in 1990 when the transmission email [email protected] tower fell down...! internet radio.adelaide.edu.au th Radio Adelaide survives and prospers It’s our 34 birthday this month, so why not celebrate the arrival of Adelaide’s radio thanks to the support of our listeners, saviour by becoming a subscriber or renewing your subscription? sponsors and these organisations: Your birthday present? You’ll go in the draw to win dinner for two, a night at the movies, overnight accommodation in a deluxe spa suite, and breakfast, all courtesy of Hurley’s Arkaba Hotel-Motel. It’s valued at $550. To do so, call us on 8303 5000 or drop in and see Olivia or Marit at 228 North Terrace, during office Program Guide design & layout: hours 9am to 5pm. Deborah Welch, Olivia Power, Shadia Design Photography: Radio Adelaide Staff Our birthday present – your support. There’s nothing Printed by Finsbury Green Printing we value more. www.arkabahotel.com.au Radio Adelaide Program Guide Winter 2006 1 And are some of those people still around today? Our first Indigenous Yes some of the people are still alive and doing very well. It was a real pleasure to go back and remember all those Broadcaster people and I really believe that it was a building of the relationship between Indigenous and non Indigenous people Sometimes people know when they are making history. And so that more understanding could happen between us. sometimes it comes to them out of the blue. So it was for respected Pitjantjatjara Elder Mona Tur. In 1973, she co- What was your role in the broadcasts? ordinated the production of a ten-part radio series on what To talk about my own journey, with my experiences as an was then VL5UV, a new radio station only a year old; now of educator and as a traditional person who had moved from course called Radio Adelaide. a traditional background into a non Indigenous background in Adelaide. Called The Urban Talking about my own journey so that Aborigine, it other people can understand where I featured two came from. or three guests each program, You said that you didn’t realise you among them Bob were making history but you were Randall, Faith starting something that’s gone onto Thomas, Eliot such huge things in terms of indigenous McAdam and radio broadcasting. Colin Weetra. Well I am really flabbergasted to think that the early years of our input has As far as we really made history for all Indigenous can tell, it is the people, so they can talk about their first radio series issues now in this day and age. I think produced by an when people hear the real stories Aboriginal person from people on the radio, it makes in Australia, and them think that this is about a person's certainly the first life, it’s coming from the journeys of on Community these people, it’s not something that’s Radio. put on. I think what a lot of non Indigenous people are afraid to say is While we’ve that Australia does have a shame and been unable by our talking about what happened to find any of to us, we will make them aware the recordings, that this did actually happen to us. I luckily Mona is Mona Tur, left with Christine Brown know radio has a powerful influence on people, so it’s very still fighting fit and good that Indigenous people are able to have access, to talk still working for her people. A respected cultural educator about issues. It’s very exciting that we will be able to leave a and interpreter, language teacher, storyteller and poet, legacy for our children and our children’s children. for the past 5 years she’s been working with women from Coober Pedy and Adelaide teaching traditional Inma, or ceremonies. Mona came in to our Nunga Wangga program in April and spoke with Christine Brown. My traditional name is Ngitji Ngitji – you say it ‘nidgy nidgy' - it’s the sound the cicada makes. An Elder told me when I was little that I’d grow up to have the gift of the gab! And my white name is Mona Tur. I was born at Hamilton Cattle station, north of Oodnadatta. What do you remember about those radio broadcasts? I think it gave the non Indigenous people the story of some of us Aboriginal people on our journeys, because we all have a different story to tell. To hear the different people that we were naming; some came from Queensland, some from the Northern Territory - it was just having these wonderful stories on the different issues of that time to give a better understanding to other people. And to ourselves I guess. What were some of the issues you covered? Well some of the issues I recall were about land rights, about fostering and about education.