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Mparntwe/Alice Springs station 8CCC's On Frequency Festival is the last to feature in this three-part series on music festivals organised by community broadcasters. We spoke to station manager Benjamin Erin about the station's experience in live music so far and what the station's hopes are for its first festival.

The Eastside Radio Programming Manager (PM) provides support to 84 programs with more than 130 presenters and producers. With assistance from the Programming Committee and Board the PM will be responsible in implementing the creative direction of the station’s programs. The PM will help design technological advances to improve broadcasting and ensure relevance in the modern media landscape.

We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2023 CBAA Annual Conference, to be held at Adelaide Oval from November 2-4, is now open.

The Community Broadcasting Association is pleased to welcome you to the June 2023 content of our national suicide prevention and mental health awareness project, developed with the support of the Australian Government Department of Health.

Each month, our project team develops a series of 20 short radio segments designed to promote help-seeking behaviour and positive lifestyle choices, using interviews with service providers, as well as profiles of people who have successfully dealt with tough times in their lives.

In this installment of our series on community broadcasters that organise music festivals we spoke to Queensland station 4MBS on their Festival of Classics, now in its 30th year. It has grown massively since its inception, from a single weekend to a format that now spans a month.

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In this webinar you will learn the steps you need to take to prevent and deal with conflicts and complaints. You’ll learn how to provide a safe and effective service to those who wish to make a complaint to or about them and create a plan in place to help minimise the impacts.

Organising a live music event is no small task - and when it comes to music festivals, the challenges can seem insurmountable. The CBAA recently caught up with three stations that organise festivals - RTRFM, 4MBS and 8CCC - to learn more about the challenges they've faced and how they've navigated them. In this instalment we catch up with RTFM which recently hosted In The Pines.

104.9 Sunshine FM is looking for an experienced weekday presenter. You could be presenting now and ready to recalibrate your work-life balance or you may have left the business a while ago and would like to come back to do some great local radio. You know your music, you like people and you only need three minutes to do a great interview.

PAW is looking for an enthusiastic and tech-savvy Radio Station Coordinator. Answerable to the General Manager and Operations Manager, the successful candidate will oversee the day to day operations of the Radio Station at our Yuendumu hub, whilst working closely with the Remote Indigenous Broadcasting Studio (RIBS) Coordinator to facilitate training and engagement across several remote Indigenous communities.