CBAA Staff

Secretariat Staff

Kath Letch - General Manager

Kath Letch has worked in voluntary and paid capacities in community broadcasting on a local and national level for over 20 years. After growing up in bayside Melbourne, she moved to Perth in her twenties to work in education and became involved in the early days of community radio there. She began broadcasting on 6UVS, and became Station Manager when the station returned to the airwaves as 6RTR in 1991.

Under fourteen years of Kath’s management, Melbourne’s 3RRR was transformed from a fragile station with a dedicated audience into a robust multimedia beacon for independent and alternative views and music.

Kath has worked on numerous national bodies including the CBAA National Committee as President for four years, the AMRAP advisory committee, and the Digital Radio Consultative Committee.

Email: kletch@cbaa.org.au

Amy Moon - Membership & Development Manager

Amy started out in the community broadcasting sector by volunteering at 2MBS and 2RRR.  After moving to Melbourne in 2006, Amy worked in a variety of roles in marketing and development in the performing arts, before returning to the sector to take up a position with 3MBS.  Before relocating to Sydney, Amy worked with the Community Broadcasting Foundation as a grants administrator, so she is well positioned to assist with any funding enquiries!   Amy recently completed a Masters of Arts (Management) at RMIT with a thesis on models of development in community organisations in Australia and she is delighted to be working in Membership and Development with the CBAA.

Contact Amy regarding any membership matters, questions, comments or feedback.

Email: amoon@cbaa.org.au

Robin Carter - Finance and Administration Coordinator

Robin came to the CBAA from a professional photographic laboratory where he cared for the company accounts. This brought him into contact with many professional photographers and their work both in Sydney and overseas and reactivated his interest in photography. Robin’s accounting experience was initially acquired in the UK, where he worked for several large soft drink companies and included a wide range of projects with these companies both in the UK and overseas. Robin was born in Australia but educated in the UK. After time in Manchester and London Robin was more or less permanently frozen from the endless British winter and felt a change was needed. He returned to Australia in 2002.

Robin is the first point of call for all things accounting and financial.

Email: rcarter@cbaa.org.au

Rhonda Byrne - Administration & Operations Manager

Rhonda spent the last 6 years at Fairfax Media Ltd. She led a large administration team with responsibilities for administrative, logistical and financial support to over 350 staff across Sydney Morning Herald and Sun Herald. Her work spanned the news desk, business, photographic, production and Readerlink departments and included project management and event & campaign planning. She now joins the CBAA as the Operations &     Administration Manager.

Email: rbyrne@cbaa.org.au

Danny Chifley - Administrative Assistant

Danny has been involved in the community broadcasting sector for many years. Stations should contact Danny for all general enquiries as well as to let him know of any changes to your station's personnel or contact details.

Email: dchifley@cbaa.org.au

Community Radio Network (CRN)

Martin Walter - CRN Content Coordinator

Martin joined the CBAA as CRN Operations Coordinator in June 2007. Previous to this he held various roles in the media monitoring industry, and spent five years in community broadcasting in NZ. Please be advised that due to accent difficulties it may be easier to contact him via email. Also this will reduce the chances of him engaging you in a long-winded spiel about the latest injustices done to the NZ cricket team. As a confessed cricket tragic he has been assigned by medical authorities to undergo personality correction through immersion in Sydney’s psych rock scene. Therapy is still in progress.

Email: mwalters@cbaa.org.au

Dan Callaghan - CRN Producer

By happy circumstance Dan had no choice but to get involved with community radio. Crashing wildly into uni with no idea what to do he decided on social sciences. It was excruciatingly dull. Some years later the administrators were allowed to push him out the other side with something called a 'Creative Industries' degree. The bit of paper he got at the end says it has something to do with 'social sciences', 'journalism' and 'audio engineering'...

Somehow it was enough for Brisbane's 4ZZZ to let Dan join their production department as a promotions producer then production coordinator, grant writer, archivist, trainer, and tech for events programs and outside broadcasts. Despite Brisbane being awesome, Sydney beckoned. Double-decker trains are still a novelty.

Email: dcallaghan@cbaa.org.au

Technical Services

David Sice

Email: dsice@cbaa.org.au

Sector Projects Staff

Australian Music Radio Airplay Project (AMRAP)

Chris Johnson - Manager

Chris Johnson has worked in the music industry for over ten years as a sound engineer, radio maker and new-media developer. Chris was the station manager of Edge Radio in Tasmania, which he successfully managed over its first five years. Chris was on the national Digital Radio Standing Committee, supporting community broadcaster’s transition into the digital radio age. He is on the Arts Tasmania panel, allocating state government grants and loans to Tasmanian artists, and on the Music Council of Australia, a 50-member national peak music organisation for Australia. Chris is a qualified audio technician, bachelor of journalism graduate, and skilled new media strategist. He won the 'Career Achievement' category at the 2006 Tasmanian Young Achiever awards.

He is now the manager of Amrap – The Australian Music Radio Airplay Project. He was appointed to manage Amrap in late October 2008 when the project was revitalised with funding. He is developing the service to suit the changing needs of the music and media industries and places a high priority on getting music to broadcasters and stations that matches their tastes and interests.

Email: chris@amrap.org

Brigitte Dagg - Communications & CD Mailout Coordinator

Brigitte joined the Amrap team as their Communications & CD Mailout Coordinator in May 2010. Previous to that she worked as the Executive Assistant and Editor of CBX at the CBAA. Brigitte is a devoted supporter of community radio and currently produces 'All the Best' - stories about Sydney on FBi Radio.

For communications enquiries comms@amrap.org and for CD mailout enquiries mailout@amrap.org

Brooke Olsen - Distribution Coordinator

Brooke Olsen has been working for AMRAP since November 2007. She is the Distribution Coordinator - assisting musicians with national airplay opportunities.

Brooke has been volunteering and working in community radio for 7 years, undertaking a number of roles in that time including; freelance producer, presenter, production assistant, panel trainer and training course co-coordinator. She interned at ABC Radio National (The Night Air) and has a Communications degree in Media Arts Production (University of Technology Sydney).

Currently she co-produces and presents FBi radio's experimental sound hour 'Sunday Night At the Movies'.

When she’s not at AMRAP, Brooke is co-running an independent venue/art space in Sydney's inner west. She also randomly puts on experimental / noise music gigs and djs for a pittance under the moniker ‘Corporal Leper’.

For AirIt enquiries email: airit@amrap.org

Ben Briedis - IT Programmer

Ben joined the CBAA in August 2009 in order to implement various web-based services for AMRAP. He has worked as a computer programmer in the fields of IT management, biotechnology, media and telephony systems. Ben has a PhD in Computer Science and a BA(Hons)/LLB, both from UNSW.

In his spare time he writes songs and performs them in many fine Sydney drinking institutions.

Email: ben@amrap.org

Ruben Thijssen - Junior Software Developer

Ruben Thijssen joined the CBAA in October 2011. Ruben is a recent Bachelor graduate of the Hogeschool Zeeland in the Netherlands, majoring in Software Engineering with a minor in IT-Security. Ruben has worked in a variety of  IT roles including software engineer and freelance back-end web-development for small businesses. Ruben will be working to further develop AirNet and AirIt.

Email: sd@amrap.org.au

CBOnline

Stephen Hahn - CBOnline Manager

Stephen worked in a number of media related roles, including analysis, campaigns and media management in Sydney before moving to Melbourne where he gained station level experiencing working as the Station Manager at JOY 94.9 and Station Administrator at 3RRRFM. Stephen has also been a Board Member of the Ross House Association and The Wilderness Society. Stephen returned to Sydney to take up his current role as CBOnline Manager.

Email: shahn@cbaa.org.au

Digital Radio Project (DRP)

Philip Shine - Digital Radio Project Manager

Email - pshine@cbaa.org.au

Alex White – Digital Radio Project Assistant

Previous to joining the CBAA Alex worked in youth and community services for the past 12 years and in a voluntary capacity has coordinated Lion Mountain Studio based at Radio Skid Row, Directed Electrofringe Festival, Liquid Architecture Sydney Festival and Serial Space. Alex is also an audio engineer and producer, he performs laptop based noise / experimental music and co-produces the music series High Reflections.

Email: awhite@cbaa.org.au