SCMA | Southern Community Media Association

Yes the Melomaniacs have over come all of the drama of the past few months and have shown their deep commitment by putting their show onto PDS effective immediately.

As of right now Melomania is available via the PDS and is waiting to be added to your stations playlist.

The show is broken into around 7 segments allowing plenty of time for you to insert sponsorship announcements and other promotional materials.

So what is Melomania all about ……………

Meaning Of Melomania is A Singular passion for music that is beyond all reason, hence the name of the show.

Melomania has been on the Airwaves since AUGUST 2008 and has already had talented national and international artists from many styles of music from Country through to mainstream as well as all places in between. The Melomaniacs also interview local guests not just for them but also locals from around Australia.

Melomania is about letting you know what is charting, what the celebs are up to, even a bit of gossip as well as what’s new.

We also like to introduce bands and artists that you wouldn’t usually hear even if they are from the same town or city as you. We love to discover new artists.

Basically Melomania is just a few hours of fun, great music and a little bit of craziness all rolled into one great show that your listeners will just become addicted to.

Melomania it’s young, it’s vibrant it’s entertaining … and who doesn’t like music?

Want to know more go to www.melomania.com.au and take a look

ACMA has released it’s Draft Community Broadcasting Not‐for‐Profit Guidelines.

Download the PDF document here, if you have anything about the draft guidelines you’d like to discuss with us please get in touch using the contact us page.

Draft Community Broadcasting Not‐for‐Profit Guidelines

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (the ACMA) has developed draft
Community Broadcasting Not‐for‐Profit Guidelines and the document is now being released
for industry comment.

Submissions marked ‘community broadcasting not‐for‐profit guidelines’ should be sent by 5.00 pm Monday 1 November 2010 to:

Email: communitybroadcasting@acma.gov.au

Fax: 02 9334 7799 [marked ‘Attention: Community Allocations and Information Section’]
Post: Community Allocations and Information Section
Australian Communications and Media Authority

PO Box Q500
Queen Victoria Building
Sydney NSW 1230

A Must Read For All Community Broadcasters

We all know that there is an election waiting to happen, infact by the time you read this there may already be an election underway.

Politics can be an exciting game and an election even more exciting but with that game just like all games there are rules and this article will outline what rules all community radio broadcasters need to adhere to during an election.

We have an election, we have rules and we’ve also got the Australian Communications Media Authority, who will be quite busy at the moment trying to ensure that everything runs smoothly during a very action packed peirod of Australian History in the making.

The Election is not an everyday event so understanding the rules is probably not going to be easy and that’s why ACMA has released a detailed factsheet that will really aid all of you in understanding and complying with the rules.

Now to understand what the rules mean for you as a community broadcaster you’ll need to download and read the PDF factsheet below, but first let’s sumarise the key points for reference:

The Broadcasting Services Act, Parts 1 & 2 of Schedule 2 contain definitions and rules that deal with access, timing and identification in relation to the broadcast of political and election matter.

1. Access for all parties – If you broadcast any political or election matter during any election period then you must give all parties contesting the election a reasonable oppourtunity to also broadcast election matter. You don’t have to provide access free of cost.
2. Blackout period – A broadcaster must stop broadcating election advertisement from the end of the Wednesday before the polling day until the close of the poll on polling day.
3. Announcement particulars – All radio broadcasts must include a spoken announcement (a tag containing authorisation and political party etc) of the required particulars as detailed in the downloadable factsheet (pages 1 & 2).
4. Record Keeping – Political & election material broadcast must be logged and records including the name, address & occupation or the person who requested the broadcast or the company name, address and principal office address if requested by a company. Keep these records for 6 weeks or until the close of polling on polling day whichever is longer. A Broadcast in the form of news, an address, a statement, a commentary or discussion, that relates to a political subject or current affairs, must have a record of the matter in a form approved by the ACMA. The record must be kept for six weeks, or 60 days if a complaint has been made about the matter.

The above key points require detailed understanding and the definitions of many terms are available in the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

If a licence condition in relation to political or election matter is breached, the ACMA may take enforcement action, including the issue of remedial directions, or the acceptance of enforceable undertakings.

Please donwload the ACMA’s PDF Factsheet here.

If you have any further questions about the above subject please get in touch with us using the contact page or email info [at] scma.org.au – replace [at] with @

Monday 5th July 2010

Voice FM announces the release of their new website – www.voicefm.com.au

An exciting addition to not only Ballarats own community broadcaster but a great community resource for all.
www.voicefm.com.au is designed as a resource and information portal as well as a contact point for all things relating to the Ballarat community.

The site features a myriad of information including an events guide, a comprehensive gig guide, local news, community information and dynamic links for all things Ballarat. This valuable community asset has been a long time coming and aims to improve community access to information our community demands.

Tully Smith the Chairman of Voice FM said “We at your community station 99.9 Voice FM have been undergoing significant change in recent months with a real focus on the needs of the Ballarat community. Voice FM believes the Ballarat community deserve a website that truly reflects the happenings and events within our community”.

We encourage all parts of our community to actively participate in this vital communication portal and the website will facilitate quick easy access to local information, news and events.

Ends

Media Contact: Brad Ward (Web Master) – 0488 616 924

We’ve just added 4 more CSA’s to mySCMA for members to download.

Included in our latest addition to the Member Downloads section of mySCMA are the following CSA’s:

Lifeline – Stress Down Day – 2 mp3 CSA’s – 1x30seconds – 1x15seconds

Cancer Council – Daffodil Day – 2mp3 CSA’s – 1x30seconds – 1x15seconds

Members go login to mySCMA and grab these downloads today.

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

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 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