SCMA | Southern Community Media Association

A federal election could be called at anytime, and the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is concerned that over 300 000 Victorian are ‘missing’ from the electoral roll. With only months to go before an expected federal election the AEC is urging everyone to check their enrolment today!

State Manager for Victoria Jenni McMullan says “The AEC is urging all Australian citizens aged 18 years and over to enrol now, it is very important that everyone is enrolled and ready to go for the upcoming federal election”.

“Even if you think you’re enrolled, if you’ve moved house in the past three years, you may not be. You’ve got to update your address on the electoral roll every time you move to avoid the risk of losing your vote” Jenni said.

Younger Victorians aged 18 – 39 years make up around 70% of the missing and are the main target of AEC enrolment campaigns to encourage awareness.

If you need to check your enrolment, update your details or enrol for the first time, you can do this by visiting the AEC website www.aec.gov.au or calling 13 23 26. You can also pick up an enrolment form from any Australian Post office or find out more by visiting your local divisional office and talking with AEC staff.

We got you sucked in with the title didn’t we?

Well it’s quite easy…. you could score your station FREE STREAMING for 12 MONTHS at 64kbps with up to 50 Listeners!

THAT’S RIGHT WE DOUBLED IT… Not 6 … But 12 MONTHS FREE STREAMING!!!

All you need to do is ‘LIKE’ us on FACEBOOK!

If you’re super keen, we’ll double your entry if you FOLLOW SCMA on TWITTER!

IT’S THAT EASY!

FOLLOW US ON TWITTER

LIKE US ON FACEBOOK

BONUS!!! Get your presenters & staff onto this, and your station could generate a tonne of entries! There is no limit to the amount of entries for a station, but there is a limit to one entry per person per social network.

THIS COMPETITION HAS CLOSED – THANKS FOR ENTERING – CONGRATULATIONS TO PLENTY VALLEY FM & EMFM

Go on… get onto it!

We’ll announce the TWO WINNERS in our AUGUST newsletter (August 2010) so entries will close 5PM 1st August 2010.

Remember: You must be a member of the SCMA to enter this.

CSA Download

This is one of three CSA’s Available to SCMA members, the other CSA’s are 33 seconds and 18 seconds in length.

All 3 CSA’s are available for download in mySCMA.

Item: Red Cross – Donate Blood CSA (30 Seconds)

Details: Red Cross DONATE BLOOD appeal.

Website: http://www.donateblood.com.au

Downloads

>> CSA 001 – Red Cross – Donate Blood 30sec (128kbps mp3 0.5mb)

The Australian Communications Media Austhority (ACMA) has releaseed the Community Broadcasting Participation Guidelines after the Draft Guidelines which some of our members and the SCMA made submissions towards.

The ACMA has released the final guidelines with a message:

We hope that the guidelines will facilitate community broadcasting licensees’ understanding of the licence conditions, enabling them to continue to represent the community interest.

If you have any questions about the Guidelines please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the SCMA.

>> Download The Community Broadcasting Participation Guidelines

SCMA Trade member Australian Independent Radio News (AIR News) is constantly on the look out for talented people that wish to make the transition to “professional” news presenter.

We always have openings for people that wish to sharpen their skills and develop not only a portfolio, but also a national profile.

AIR News delivers to over 40 stations on over 100 frequencies across the country.

There are a few ncessary items to the deal.

1/ Access to Broadband Internet
2/ Your own Home studio (which we can assist with)
3/ The Talent and Drive to be successful in News.

So far over a dozen of our people have gone on to Commercial Radio and Television careers.
In the first instance do not phone. Send your Radio related CV (I don’t want to know if you worked at McDonalds) and a mono mp3 demo of your news presentation skills to artie@airnews.com.au

See our website www.airnews.com.au

Details of Home Studio requirements on www.airnews.com.au/homestudio.shtml

Col Elliott is one of Australia’s most loved sons, an entertainer with the ability to draw huge crowds the length and breadth of Australia.  His ongoing popularity and longevity in the entertainment industry is legendary.

Col has joined forces with the SCMA to put together a special deal for financial members of the SCMA.

Col Elliott has an impressive background with over 20 album releases (13 of them Gold and Platinum) and a swag of successful videos and DVD’s to his credit, Col has notched up a career spanning over 30 years.  Comedy is Col’s forte and now Col brings his love of comedy to radio with his all new “Col Elliott’s Comedy Quiz”.

Each week 5 specially produced questions and answers about anything and everything to do with comedy are available to members of the SCMA across Australia at a special member’s only price.

Col Elliott’s Comedy Quiz is voiced by Col himself and is the perfect new competition idea for your station.  It will provide a valuable sponsorship opportunity for your station so to find out more and receive the specially discounted weekly rate as an SCMA member, go to mySCMA http://my.scma.org.au/ and then go to the members deals section and you will get the detail on cost and how to get involved in this fantastic opportunity for your station at a great SCMA Members Price the savings on this alone will more than pay your membership.

Not yet a member of SCMA and want to know more visit www.scma.org.au to find out about SCMA, what we do, what we offer and how to become a member.

SCMA is a can do organisation

The SCMA continue to meet their commitment to the entrants of the 2010 National Award for Excellence in Community Broadcasting “The X Awards”

The X Awards have been an integral part of the National Regional Rural and Sub Metro Broadcasters Conference for years. As part of the SCMA’s commitment to the entrants and attendees of the 2010 Conference the SCMA has released the winning audio grabs for the X Awards.

Take some time to have a listen to the winning entries of the 2010 X Awards. Visit the SCMA’s website www.scma.org.au or go directly to the awards audio by following this link http://www.scma.org.au/scma-annual-conference/2010-conference

The X Awards are National awards recognising excellence in community broadcasting. The awards are presented every year at the National Regional Rural and Sub Metro Broadcasters Conference annual dinner on the Saturday night of the conference. The X Awards are open to any members of the SCMA and any non member station who attends the conference. Full details of the awards including categories can be found on the SCMA’s website www.scma.org.au of by following this link directly to X Award information http://www.scma.org.au/scma-annual-conference/x-awards

Entries to the 2011 X Awards will open as of the 1^st of July 2010 and as part of the SCMA’s commitment to its members will now be done online through mySCMA. In the first instance only member stations will be able to enter the X Awards on line with the non member portal opening for entries subject to conditions on November 1^st 2010.

If your station wants to be involved in the 2011 National X Awards consider becoming a member of the SCMA http://www.scma.org.au/join-scma/ or make sure your station attends the 2011 National Regional Rural and Sub Metro Broadcasters Conference in Wagga Wagga.

The X Award winning show “A Country Yarn” today became a nationally available program as it hit the PDS for the first time.

A county Yarn will now be available to all financial members of the SCMA via the “Program Delivery System” accessible through MySCMA another innovation by the Association.

A Country Yarn is a program that runs for around 56 minutes and is delivered weekly via PDS it is as simple as ordering the program and as soon as it becomes available you get it downloaded without any further work on your part.

The program is hosted by Ross Usher and features an chat show style interview with a different country music artist each week as well as music, album information and so much more. The laid back style of Ross makes the show one of those shows you just want to listen to all the way through.

Produced in the studios of My 105.9 FM  Mackay QLD the show and the fact that it is now national is a real credit to the hard working team.

Station Manager of My105.9 Stephan Kent said “A Country Yarn is one of those unique programs that we on community radio do so well – it also gives us a chance to really highlight the very best in Australian County Music. It was voted the most popular program on our station in 2009 and so far this season Ross Usher the presenter has managed to line up an excellent range of artists. I can tell you that any station who chooses to run this show will be adding a high class show to their line up.  The show is produced without any funding from anyone and we just love the idea that using Ross’s research and interviewing talents has taking THE COUNTRY YARN to new heights”.

There is no time like right now to add “A Country Yarn” to your stations program list if you need more information on PDS, mySCMA or A Country Yarn check it all out at www.scma.org.au or log into mySCMA.

Membership to SCMA is just $50-00 per year and information and applications can be found here

For Sale.

ITEM SOLD

Poul Kirk Electronics Analogue Telephone Interface (hybrid)

Removed from working enviroment.

Sold as is with copy of manual.

Cost: $70.00 SOLD

Item location: Plenty Valley FM. Melbourne

Buyer must organise pick up of item.

Item images, click for larger version.

Member station 5 TCB who recently lost their production area and all their production equipment have once again proven you cannot keep the spirit of volunteers in community broadcasting down.

The CEO of SCMA went to Bordertown on Saturday June 12^th to roll up his sleeves and assist the station to re establish a production area and to take some badly needed software to the station to get them back into the business of producing their stations needs in house.

Picture: (Left) The Temporary Production room established over the long weekend. There is still more equipment to come but this is a big start

There is a real spirit within the station and its volunteers and even though the production area is devastated and the remainder of the station smells like a bon fire they are setting about the business of being a community broadcaster.

Damage within the station was restricted to the production area thanks to some quick thinking by station staff. While the loss is huge with not only computers, panels, software and all you need to run a production studio destroyed the loss also included memorabilia, station history, CD’s , paperwork and so much more.

With a bit of scaping and searching we managed to find enough equipment to set up a temporary production area within the disused news production booth. While the equipment may have seen better days and wouldn’t be on any wish list the bottom line is 5 TCB are now fully capable of producing whatever they need  from the temporary studio until such time as the production area can be rebuilt and re equipped.

As always I found a band of dedicated volunteers willing to assist and get the job done with a smile, a joke and some hard work along with a bit of creative lateral thinking.

You will see by the pictures within this article that they were extremely lucky that the fire remained contained within the production area.

Congratulations to the crew at 5 TCB on how well they are dealing with the damage and disruption that the fire has caused.