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Previous Features
CBAA Helps to Cast your Content Further!
The CBAA is proud to announce the arrival of C pod, the CBAA's podcast hosting service, a brand new feature for CBAA member stations.
The service is free, easy to use, advanced in its technical capabilities, perfect for radio content and a user friendly system with no advertising or pop ups – so why not cast your stations content now!
To read the full article, click here.
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A mixed bag in the budget for community broadcasters Support for Australian musicians, a lifebuoy for Australia’s key broadcast training initiative and a new set of dates for Digital Radio: the community-broadcasting sector’s peak body, the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia welcomes the Federal Government’s support for three key areas of community broadcasting in the budget. But there are still some questions.
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Digital Radio Is Coming The digital radio policy was introduced in 2005 and the legislative framework established in 2007. Under that framework metropolitan community stations in each capital city have a legislative entitlement to 2/9ths of digital capacity on each available multiplex, with that capacity shared by the number of metro-wide community radio services in each market.
Using that entitlement requires a level of Federal Government funding support, and careful technical and resource planning to bring about digital transmission and content delivery in a cost effective way.
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Codes of Practice Review The CBAA is reviewing the community radio Codes of Practice during 2008 for the first time in five years and we’d appreciate your input.
The Codes are part of a system of self-regulation that sets out the agreed standards of conduct for community broadcasters in both programme content and station operations. It is enforceable by the broadcasting regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
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The sky’s not falling – but there's a change in conditions ahead There's been a lot of talk throughout the sector about the legislative framework in which we operate. About whether the licence renewal process is too onerous. About whether the regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), is taking away licences en masse. About the difficulty of complying with sponsorship regulations.
It seems that we may be due for some legislative change to enable us to operate effectively and without fear of breaking the rules unwittingly.
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New Management Training Are you on the board or involved in the day-to-day management of a community radio station? If you'd like to hone your skills and knowledge in a range of areas, why not go to radio management school!
New Management Training Resources have been developed specifically for the community broadcasting sector are about to be piloted nationally. We are looking for people involved in the management of stations to enrol in a range of course. Best of all, it's free!
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Sponsorship Guidelines Under Revision Sponsorship has been a key area of concern for the community broadcasting sector in recent times. As we’ve become more creative in ways of gaining support, the lines have become more blurred as to where sponsorship ends and advertising begins.
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Greens back Community Broadcasting The Greens will provide the community broadcasting sector with an additional $1 million a year, according to Greens lead Senate candidate for Queensland, Larissa Waters.
“Community broadcasting is needed now more than ever given the decline in the diversity of media ownership and the decline of local and regional newspapers,” said Ms Waters.
For the full article, click here.
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Taking Community Media to the Next Level From the 22-25 November, the CBAA will host the largest and most exciting event in the community broadcasting calendar, the CBAA National Conference. Being held in the stunning city of Melbourne, where community broadcasting has a long history and remains a strong part of the sector, it is a not to be missed opportunity for anyone involved in community broadcasting.
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Support for AMRAP just in time! The CBAA has welcomed the announcement by Shadow Minister for the Arts, Mr Peter Garrett MP, of $2.4 million in funding for the Australian Music Radio Airplay Project (Amrap)
Mr Garrett launched the policy on Sydney's FBi stating "I could see that [continued funding for AMRAP] would be a great boon to Aussie music and to young songwriters and bands, and it seemed really dumb for the funding to just end, so we're going to keep it going."
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Audiences Like It Local... and Vocal! In the largest project of its kind in the world, researchers from Griffith University have spent two years interviewing audiences across the country, including listeners of Indigenous stations, ethnic language programs, metropolitan, suburban, regional, rural and remote radio, as well as TV audiences in the emerging community TV sector.
The resulting report, Community Media Matters – an audience study of the Australian community broadcasting sector, reveals the integral role played by community broadcasting as described by some of its more than seven and a half million listeners.
Click here for the full story.
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Community radio and the transition to digital Community broadcasters have now gained access to limited digital capacity in capital city markets and a level of funding to support initial infrastructure costs. Since the Government’s announcement in early May, the CBAA has continued a process of sector consultation to ensure the involvement of community broadcasters in the digital radio framework.
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CBAA Community Education Projects The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia is currently developing four exciting new communications projects that focus on providing our listeners with important information on issues such as first aid, crime prevention, parenting and relationships, and energy efficiency.
Click here to find out more.
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Parliamentary committee calls for urgent action on Community TV
 The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia today welcomes the report Community Television: Options for digital broadcasting, which calls for immediate action on community television gaining access to digital spectrum.
Read all about it here
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Bound for Bonn: Four Talented Broadcasters Receive a Once in a Lifetime Opportunity Deutsche Welle and the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia recently appointed four Mike Thompson Deutsche Welle Internships for 2007. The lucky individuals have been given the opportunity to travel to Germany for six months of professional placement and training in the English Department at the headquarters of Germany’s international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, in Bonn. Two of the programs are for radio broadcasting, while the other two are for online broadcasting.
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Bay FM - 2006 Station of the Year Years from now, 2006 will be remembered as an historic year for Bay FM. It was a year where Bay FM’s tradition of hard work and innovation culminated in both the establishment of new premises and being awarded the CBAA Station of the Year.
Click here to read more!
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Nearly half of Australians (aged 15+) listen to community radio These are the findings of new audience research into community radio listenership conducted by McNair Ingenuity between March and May 2006 and launched by Senator the Honorable Helen Coonan, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.
The results show that the number of Australians aged 15+ listening to community radio in an average month has risen from 7,054,000 people (45%) in 2004 to 7,515,000 people (47%) in 2006.
“That's more than four million listeners every week” commented the CEO of McNair Ingenuity Matt Balogh “...an audience that would be the envy of any commercial network.”
For the full article click here.
The full survey results are available from CBOnline, www.cbonline.org.au
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A Path in the Digital Garden On October 14 the Minister for Communications, IT & the Arts, Hon Senator Helen Coonan, announced a framework to guide the introduction of digital radio to Australia.
The framework is the first step towards the formal introduction of digital radio to Australia. It follows 15 years of consideration, trials, planning and analysis.
Read the entire story here to find out exactly where community radio fits into the digital spectrum.
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What’s going on with Digital Radio? The concept of Digital Radio has been around for a few years now. While there are numerous questions about it - there is certainly no longer a question of whether it will ever happen.
The CBAA has recently made a highly detailed submission to DoCITA about digital radio, its implications and challenges for the community sector. This submission gives a detailed account of what issues face community broadcasters, how government has responded to these issues forms the policy framework that the CBAA is pursuing in relation to digital radio.
Click here to see the submission and to get an update on the community radio sector's role within this new framework.... and flying cars.
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Mike Thompson - Deutsche Welle Radio Internship 2005 Deutsche Welle and the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia invite applications for the Mike Thompson - Deutsche Welle Radio Internship 2005. Click here to find out how to successfully apply for one radio journalism's most sought after internships.
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Women are leading the way in community broadcasting! Community broadcasting has gone from strength to strength over the past few years. We owe much of that development to some very dedicated and very talented women.
Click here to read about just some of the recent achievments of some women in the sector.
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 3CR Wins HREOC Award
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Awards Radio 3CR For Its Prison Broadcasts
Melbourne community radio station and Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) member, 3CR 855am, has won this year’s National Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) Radio Award.
3CR 855AM won in recognition of its unique live broadcasts from two Victorian prisons. Read the full story here!
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YOU are listening to community radio! Australia has big ears...
And very different ears...
And they are out there... listening in huge numbers.
That is the key message that the community radio sector can take from the results of the McNair National Listener Survey.
The research results were launched at the CBAA office on September 15 2004 by Communications Minister, Senator Helen Coonan.
To read more about the results, click here
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2004 Mike Thompson - DW internship "Kate Hairsine is the latest in a proud line-up of highly talented radio producers and journalists who have been selected for a Mike Thompson-Deustche Welle Internship in Germany."
"The Internship is proof that in terms of skill and sheer talent our young community broadcasters are second-to-none in the world", says CBAA General Manager Barry Melville.
Read more about the Mike Thompson - DW Internship, click here
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Australian Music Correspondents Amrap’s Music Correspondent initiative was developed to generate short program content to meet the diverse programming interests of the community broadcasting sector. Ten music correspondents have been recruited from around Australia to report on aspects of contemporary Australian music. Their radio packages are available each month for stations to on-air use, with the first monthly batch being delivered in April. Click here to read more about their experiences so far.
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CTV Licence Allocations Announced Congratulations to Australia’s first ‘permanent’ community television licensees, Access 31 (Perth) and TVS (Television Sydney). Perth will benefit from continuity and growth in CTV with its vibrant Access 31 service and Sydney can look forward to a really exciting future with the emergence of the new community and educational joint venture, Television Sydney. Read the whole story here.
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The Final Speech David Melzer gave his final speech as CBAA President at the opening of the 2003 CBAA conference. His words were what he considers to be a snapshot of the communtiy broadcasting sector. He talked in-depth about its strengths and emphasised its weaknesses, leaving those in attendance with plenty to think about.
Click here to read his speech.
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Amrap and Noise get together... Amrap has combined with this years noise festival to fund 12 young community broadcasters to produce radio works profiling some aspect of their local music scene.
Click here to read all about it.
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Regrouping Indigenous Media 2001 saw the winding up of the National Indigenous Media Association of Australia (NIMAA). This has left Indigenous broadcasters and media workers with no representative body for some time.
Now though, a new body is being formed – the Australian Indigenous Communications Association (AICA)
Click Here to read more.
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