Community Broadcasting is Australia’s third media sector. It is made up of over 300 broadcasting outlets, including radio and television stations and remote Indigenous services.
The CBOnline Project collects information on the activities of these diverse and dynamic stations, helping inform the public about the valuable role they play in our communities and encouraging the exchange of information within the sector itself.
From Kath Letch:
"There are various bits of information that I notice popping up around the sta... more From Kath Letch:
"There are various bits of information that I notice popping up around the starting points of community radio (or public radio as it was until 1992) and some of you would be aware that Radio Adelaide has been celebrating its 40th birthday this year as it first went to air in June 1972.
This is at times taken as the starting point for the sector though in real terms there were a number of strands that led to the start of public radio in Australia that ran concurrently through the 60's and 70's including the fine music MBS stations, ethnic broadcasting, educational institutions, and a community based public access process that led to stations like 3CR in Melbourne. Some of these came out of various illegal broadcasts like draft resisters radio in the late 60's early 70's (basically pirate radio where a group of tech minded people with a small transmitter would hack into the broadcast band for a period - this occurred in Melbourne with some of the people that set up 3CR).
Sadly there's not really any definitive history of community radio in Australia but there are bits and pieces that have been written that outline early developments and it makes the anniversary point a more nebulous concept than it's sometimes referred to in the sector. So it's sort of the 40th and sort of not. The full community broadcasting licensing structure as we now know it actually commenced in 1978/79 though quite a few stations had started broadcasting before then on various forms of temporary and experimental licences and most stations celebrate their anniversaries from their initial broadcast date which makes sense.
Below is a summary from the Radio Adelaide website that's based on a PhD a woman called Phoebe Thornley wrote around the late 90's. Some of the information is now dated (ie refers to there now being 140 community radio stations which was correct around late 90's).
Please take a glance through the article - it's not that long - and it will explain why I say 'um' a lot when people say it's the 40th anniversary of the whole sector - I guess we could say we're entering our 5th decade!"
The newly released Community Broadcasting Station Census is a comprehensive report into the activ... more The newly released Community Broadcasting Station Census is a comprehensive report into the activities of stations in the Community Broadcasting Sector and covers the financial period 2009/10.
The report data was collected by McNair Ingenuity Research under the guidance of the CBOnline Project for the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia.
This is the sixth data collection to date. See data on the growth of the sector, the impact of the Global Financial Crisis and the increasingly diverse programming choices available to community radio listeners.
From Kath Letch:
"There are various bits of information that I notice popping up around the sta... more From Kath Letch:
"There are various bits of information that I notice popping up around the starting points of community radio (or public radio as it was until 1992) and some of you would be aware that Radio Adelaide has been celebrating its 40th birthday this year as it first went to air in June 1972.
This is at times taken as the starting point for the sector though in real terms there were a number of strands that led to the start of public radio in Australia that ran concurrently through the 60's and 70's including the fine music MBS stations, ethnic broadcasting, educational institutions, and a community based public access process that led to stations like 3CR in Melbourne. Some of these came out of various illegal broadcasts like draft resisters radio in the late 60's early 70's (basically pirate radio where a group of tech minded people with a small transmitter would hack into the broadcast band for a period - this occurred in Melbourne with some of the people that set up 3CR).
Sadly there's not really any definitive history of community radio in Australia but there are bits and pieces that have been written that outline early developments and it makes the anniversary point a more nebulous concept than it's sometimes referred to in the sector. So it's sort of the 40th and sort of not. The full community broadcasting licensing structure as we now know it actually commenced in 1978/79 though quite a few stations had started broadcasting before then on various forms of temporary and experimental licences and most stations celebrate their anniversaries from their initial broadcast date which makes sense.
Below is a summary from the Radio Adelaide website that's based on a PhD a woman called Phoebe Thornley wrote around the late 90's. Some of the information is now dated (ie refers to there now being 140 community radio stations which was correct around late 90's).
Please take a glance through the article - it's not that long - and it will explain why I say 'um' a lot when people say it's the 40th anniversary of the whole sector - I guess we could say we're entering our 5th decade!"
The newly released Community Broadcasting Station Census is a comprehensive report into the activ... more The newly released Community Broadcasting Station Census is a comprehensive report into the activities of stations in the Community Broadcasting Sector and covers the financial period 2009/10.
The report data was collected by McNair Ingenuity Research under the guidance of the CBOnline Project for the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia.
This is the sixth data collection to date. See data on the growth of the sector, the impact of the Global Financial Crisis and the increasingly diverse programming choices available to community radio listeners.
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"There are various bits of information that I notice popping up around the starting points of community radio (or public radio as it was until 1992) and some of you would be aware that Radio Adelaide has been celebrating its 40th birthday this year as it first went to air in June 1972.
This is at times taken as the starting point for the sector though in real terms there were a number of strands that led to the start of public radio in Australia that ran concurrently through the 60's and 70's including the fine music MBS stations, ethnic broadcasting, educational institutions, and a community based public access process that led to stations like 3CR in Melbourne. Some of these came out of various illegal broadcasts like draft resisters radio in the late 60's early 70's (basically pirate radio where a group of tech minded people with a small transmitter would hack into the broadcast band for a period - this occurred in Melbourne with some of the people that set up 3CR).
Sadly there's not really any definitive history of community radio in Australia but there are bits and pieces that have been written that outline early developments and it makes the anniversary point a more nebulous concept than it's sometimes referred to in the sector. So it's sort of the 40th and sort of not. The full community broadcasting licensing structure as we now know it actually commenced in 1978/79 though quite a few stations had started broadcasting before then on various forms of temporary and experimental licences and most stations celebrate their anniversaries from their initial broadcast date which makes sense.
Below is a summary from the Radio Adelaide website that's based on a PhD a woman called Phoebe Thornley wrote around the late 90's. Some of the information is now dated (ie refers to there now being 140 community radio stations which was correct around late 90's).
Please take a glance through the article - it's not that long - and it will explain why I say 'um' a lot when people say it's the 40th anniversary of the whole sector - I guess we could say we're entering our 5th decade!"
The report data was collected by McNair Ingenuity Research under the guidance of the CBOnline Project for the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia.
This is the sixth data collection to date. See data on the growth of the sector, the impact of the Global Financial Crisis and the increasingly diverse programming choices available to community radio listeners.
"There are various bits of information that I notice popping up around the starting points of community radio (or public radio as it was until 1992) and some of you would be aware that Radio Adelaide has been celebrating its 40th birthday this year as it first went to air in June 1972.
This is at times taken as the starting point for the sector though in real terms there were a number of strands that led to the start of public radio in Australia that ran concurrently through the 60's and 70's including the fine music MBS stations, ethnic broadcasting, educational institutions, and a community based public access process that led to stations like 3CR in Melbourne. Some of these came out of various illegal broadcasts like draft resisters radio in the late 60's early 70's (basically pirate radio where a group of tech minded people with a small transmitter would hack into the broadcast band for a period - this occurred in Melbourne with some of the people that set up 3CR).
Sadly there's not really any definitive history of community radio in Australia but there are bits and pieces that have been written that outline early developments and it makes the anniversary point a more nebulous concept than it's sometimes referred to in the sector. So it's sort of the 40th and sort of not. The full community broadcasting licensing structure as we now know it actually commenced in 1978/79 though quite a few stations had started broadcasting before then on various forms of temporary and experimental licences and most stations celebrate their anniversaries from their initial broadcast date which makes sense.
Below is a summary from the Radio Adelaide website that's based on a PhD a woman called Phoebe Thornley wrote around the late 90's. Some of the information is now dated (ie refers to there now being 140 community radio stations which was correct around late 90's).
Please take a glance through the article - it's not that long - and it will explain why I say 'um' a lot when people say it's the 40th anniversary of the whole sector - I guess we could say we're entering our 5th decade!"
The report data was collected by McNair Ingenuity Research under the guidance of the CBOnline Project for the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia.
This is the sixth data collection to date. See data on the growth of the sector, the impact of the Global Financial Crisis and the increasingly diverse programming choices available to community radio listeners.