Invitation to Communities to apply for a
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2010-07-28 11:30:55
6EBA is Perth's only full time ethnic radio station and has been broadcasting to Perth's non-English speaking population for over thirty years. Our station has over 500 volunteers each broadcasting to their communities of interest, the majority of whom have been doing so for over twenty years.
Station Manager
Ethnic broadcasting an essential service
2007-08-09 09:56:57 WST
By Station Manager
A Griffith University report entitled Community Media Matters (March 2007) analyses why community broadcasting is a growing sector and why people value it - www.cbonline.org.au Chapter 6 of the report deals with ethnic community radio, concluding that:
"Our results indicate that it is providing an essential service for new migrants. But it is doing far more than this – when a community becomes more established in Australia, ethnic language programs act as an important link to other members of the same community in their local area through maintenance of languages, and links to home which other information and media sources cannot provide." (p72)
Did you know that The Commonwealth funding for the community broadcasting sector has dropped some 43% in targeted funding and 41% in core funding since 1996; where the sector has shown 54% growth in the same period, and licensed stations have increased from 289 to 480.
In case you are not aware:
• Ethnic community broadcasting involves over 100 radio stations (including 6 full-time ethnic stations) with 3,000 volunteers producing 2,400 hours of ethnic community broadcasting each week in 97 languages.
• Community broadcasting has a weekly audience of over 4 million a week (McNair Ingenuity Audience Survey, August 2006). Around 23% (or about 608,000 of the 2.65 million) of regular metro community radio listeners are Language Other Than English (LOTE) speakers
We plead to the Commonwealth to increase our funding so we too may continue to flourish and improve our already valuable community resource.
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2010-07-28 11:17:21
Whadjuk Radio is an Award Winning indigenous radio program on air on 6EBA-FM 95.3 World Radio since early 1997. Past presenters like Kylie Farmer, Ethel Wallam and Karla Hart have moved on with their careers and are now highly successful in each of their fields. Whadjuk Radio and 6EBA is proud to have played a small part in their success.
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Station Manager
2009-10-20 02:23:50
The Multicultural Radio & Television Association of WA Inc. held its Annual General Meeting this year on the 18th October 2009. The venue was the Floreat Athena Soccer Club where over 100 members, their guests and friends attended the meeting, followed by a luncheon prepared by the Club's chef Mr. Peter Kalogeracos allowing members to socialize, relax and catch up.
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