The date for the Annual General Meeting has been set and the location and training opportunity have all been put into place. The Annual General Meeting of Southern Community Media Association will be held on the 17th of June 2012. The meeting will be held at the Kilmore Racing the home of 3 OKR FM. [...]

Best in House Production of a Sponsorship Announcement 88.9 FM – Higgins sons Best in House Production of a Sweeper or Station ID STEREO 974 – Promo Best in House Production of a CSA STEREO 974 – CSA Best in House Production of a Show Promotion Bippera Media – Dial a Hit Best Sports Program [...]

As has been the case over the last few years of the National Regional Rural and Sub Metro Broadcasters Conference once again this year the collateral table will be happening. This is an opportunity to display stickers, magnets and other promotional things from your station to share ideas with other stations at the conference. Every [...]

Over $900,000 available for new content! – grants close 16 March 2012 Community radio stations small, medium and large, rural, regional, sub-metro and metro are all encouraged to apply for a General Content Development grant from the Community Broadcasting Foundation. Over $900,000 is up for grabs in Round 2 to support new and existing programs [...]

One of the highlights of the Annual Conference is the presentation of the prestigious X Awards as part of the conference dinner. This year will be no different with the X Awards being a feature of the conference. The awards are growing in Stature every year as more and more stations enter the awards as [...]

PDS Show display area This is an interesting development that came about from last year’s conference and the team from Melomania making such a huge effort to promote their show. This year it was decided to allocate an area in the Trade area for shows that are available on PDS to put up a display [...]

This year as part of the experiment to keep costs as low as possible for delegates attending the National Regional Rural and Sub Metro Broadcasters Conference in Ballarat March 2nd to 4th we have decided to make the Conference Dinner a BYO affair. This will reduce the cost to all delegates attending the event. We [...]

88.6 Plenty Valley FM, with the assistance of a dedicated team of volunteers, is pleased to once again be producing, the Victorian & National Country Music Awards in 2012 from the Plenty Ranges Arts and Convention Centre, Saturday 11th February 2012. The Awards will be broadcast ‘LIVE’ via the Community Radio Network (CRN) and on [...]

We were fortunate to get Steve Ahern to attend last years conference in Wagga Wagga and the feed back from his sessions was overwhelming. So imagine how happy I was when I received an email from Steve from Afghanistan offering to return to this year’s conference and present again. That is one of the reasons [...]

TWO STATIONS CREATE A UNIQUE HOOK UP AND BROADCAST TO ALL AUSTRALIA VIA SATELLITE ON NEW YEARS EYE 2 North Queensland radio stations my105fm Mackay and 987 BBM Cairns will do a special 2 studio hook up to present 8 hours of programming on New Year’s Eve. Called the Big Murri Party Mackay’s Stephan Kent [...]