SCMA | Southern Community Media Association

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 the National Indigenous Radio Service (NIRS).

A dedicated ‘dry’ (no local sponsorship included) internet 96 kb/s stream will also be available for stations unable to access satellite. This will be available from our website: www.pvfm.org.au.

The entire show will also be available Via PDS within 24 hours of the broadcast for stations that want to time shift the program.

The broadcast will commence at 20:00 hours EDST and run until approximately 23:59 EDST.

Please join us for the Awards Ceremony, interspersed with live on-stage performances from some of the best Country Talent locally and from across the nation.

NOTE: There will be opportunities for local sponsorship announcements during the broadcast. A detailed running sheet with sponsorship times will be made available late January to allow stations to program in their local sponsors.

Stations that would normally take CRN programming at that time will automatically receive the 2012 Victorian & National Country Music Awards.

Please let us know if you intend to broadcast the Awards so that we can include ‘shout-outs’ to your station on the night. Email pvfm@pvfm.org.au with your station’s call sign.
If you have any questions relating to the broadcast, contact Brian King at b4king@live.com.au

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 and Cairns based Jackie Tim will present a live request show with shout outs, interviews with all kinds of people from muso’s to those in other countries and crosses – and the show will be broadcast via the National Indigenous Radio Services to all corners of the country.

General Manager of my105fm Stephan Kent explained “Jackie will be in the Cairns Studio and will take calls on a special free call 1800 number – her studio will be connected via a link to the Mackay Studio where the program will be compiled and then fed to Brisbane via another link and then uploaded onto the NIRS Satellite.” This is quite a feat but it shows just what can be done with a little creativity and planning – we have been working on the project a while with our team.

“We did it in 2009 and it was a success so many people phoned in from WA to say it’s all good for you to count down in the East but what about us – that year we remained on air till 2am to bring in the new year especially for WA – and so we will do it again this year – it’s a 8 hour live on air shift – but it’s all worth it”.

We have a fantastic broadcasting team between my105fm, 987BBM and Nirs and it really is our pleasure to provide some live instant radio coverage to those in the towns and cities in the Nirs footprint.

The program will start at 6pm Eastern Standard Time New Years Eve and conclude at 2am Eastern Standard time on New Year’s day.

Listeners can interact with the program via a special face book page and a toll free number 1800 422 416 Australia Wide.

The Southern Community Media Association as part of it’s continued efforts to better inform it’s membership and the sector as a whole has established a presence on the social networking system Facebook. The page will be used to inform subscribers of events that are happening within the association as well as within the sector.

To an extent it will also be used as an information portal and events program for the association.

I encourage you all to subscribe to the Southern Community Media Association Facebook page. It is all about getting the information out to as many people as possible. You don’t have to be a station manager or a member of the board at your station. In fact you don’t even have to be involved in a station just have an interest in supporting community radio.

Anything that increases information flow and creates an opportunity to promote what is happening within community broadcasting is a bonus to us all.

The great thing about Facebook as opposed to blog sites and web pages is it is interactive and we encourage you all to be involved and have your say about what you would like to see the SCMA doing such as training opportunities, the Conference and anything else you can think of. It’s all right there on Facebook

Here is the link that will take you to the SCMA Facebook site go ahead and join up as a friend and get interactive with your association. You don’t have to be a member of the association to use Facebook but it’s great if you do join after all it’s all about community broadcasting.

http://www.facebook.com/myscma