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

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

Dated: 7-12-2009

We are now in the final testing stages of the program delivery system. Thanks must go out to the stations that have taken on the task of assisting us in this final test for the system.

The short answer is we wanted to make absolutely certain that the system was 100% ready for release instead of rushing it out there and having to play catch up to keep it ticking over

PDS is one of the most secure delivery systems on the internet today and as such we will be exploring every avenue to get the most data transfers available to our member stations as quickly as possible.

So what is the PDS and what can it do for your station

What is the PDS I hear you ask. Well PDS stands for Program Delivery System and program means your programs on air at your station. PDS is now capable of more than that as a result of it’s evolution and development.

What started out as a simple program exchange system evolved into an upload down load system that will allow stations to upload material into the system without the need for it to be sent to a central location and uploaded by a specific person.

This will mean that you can distribute programs and information on a one to one basis or a one to many basis. This will allow stations to exchange programs without any need to apply for permission to upload or down load other than from the stations concerned.

The development of the system has also seen the introduction of a document exchange section for the system as well as a document bank and a library developed for on-air programs and information.

All of this has been achieved while at the same time giving the system the best possible security encryption to protect information and material to above accepted standards. The system can be many things to different users as well as multi tasking capabilities. The system is administered via SCMA but also has the capability to provide a one to many service that can circumvent involvement from the SCMA thus providing individual distributors a safe secure and reliable delivery system that they have the majority of control over. This means that sensitive material can be delivered to the locations the distributor desires it sent without it having to be processed by anyone other than themselves, this will provide a higher degree of security for the distributor.

System set up is made as easy as possible for the end user, the system has a simple download component that must be verified by the SCMA thus ensuring that it remains secure and cannot be breached or distributed to other users without authorization.

The big features of the PDS system is the ease of set up and the extremely high security protection the system provides, the ease of use for the end user and the simple interface all means this system will be a stress free secure system that will provide SCMA member stations with a great way to share on-air programs and much more.

PDS will be openly available to all community broadcast stations regardless of their membership to the SCMA. There are levels of control and there will be information that is exclusively for members of the SCMA delivered through this system but it has the capacity to deliver information to anyone or every one.

The user interface is designed to be as simple to use as is possible and will provide users with access, information and upload capabilities at the click of a mouse button