The CBAA has announced the 2021 CBAA Community Radio Award Finalists over social media this week.

Category by category, finalists were revealed until Friday on the CBAA’s Facebook page.

The Finalists are:

Outstanding Volunteer Contribution

• Aeron Clark, Edge Radio
• Darryn Capes-Davis, Alive 90.5 FM
• Leonie McClure, 2RRR 88.5 FM
• Shankar Jayapandian, 4EB

Excellence in Technical Innovation

• JOY’s new home, JOY 94.9
• Locked down and out – remote radio, Triple R
• Nick La Rosa radio services, Eastside Radio 89.7 FM

Excellence in Technical Services

• Dale Simpson, Vision Australia Radio
• Keith Rider, 2RRR 88.5FM

Excellence in Outside Broadcasting

• Barrabuwari Live from Sydney Opera House, FBi Radio
• Boola Bardip, RTRFM
• Steamranger Cockle Train, Fleurieu FM
• Outside Broadcasting in a Pandemic, Triple R

Excellence in News & Current Affairs Programming

• Able Radio, MAINfm
• All Things Queer, RTRFM
• Balit Dhumba Strong Talk, 3KND KoolNDeadly
• Covid Report, Wangki Radio
• Law Matters, Noongar Radio
• The Wire, 4EB, 2ser & Radio Adelaide
• West Gate Bridge Disaster – 50 Years On, 3CR Community Radio

Excellence in Music Presenting

• MAINfm – Beats Without Borders
• Phoenix FM 106.7 MHz – World Music Safari
• RTRFM 92.1- Rok Riley
• triple t 103.9 – The Beat Generation
• 2MCE- Alt.Eighties: Sound & Vision Series

Excellence in Journalism

• Backchat, FBi Radio
• Pandemic in paradise: Byron’s housing crisis intensifies, Bay FM 99.9
• Pilbara mining blast has destroyed ancient rock shelters, Ngaarda Media
• The Story of CHIRP / Community Health in Castlemaine, MAINfm
• Wavelength, Adelaide refugees in limbo, Fresh 92.7

 Best New Radio Program

• COAST FM 963 Gosford – At Home with the Gardening Gang
• Eastside Radio 89.7FM – Breaking Waves
• JOY 94.9 – How Do You Do That?
• MAINfm – Meet Me at the Library
• 3WAY-FM – The Beat
• 3KND Kool ‘N’ Deadly – Turnt Up

Best Online content

• Fresh 92.7 – Jack Erickson – Heaps Good Race
• Eastside Radio 89.7FM – Shout Sister Shout
• RTRFM 92.1 – Slightly Odway
• FBi Radio – W.I.P (Work in Progress)
• Ngaarda Media – WIRRILIMURRA LORE
• PBS 106.7FM Melbourne – Wuigada

Best Radio Program – Music category

• JOY 94.9 – Living in the 70s
• Triple t 103.9 – The Beat Generation
• Triple R – 3RRR 102.7FM – Mooncake
• Phoenix FM 106.7 MHz – The Crimson Palace
• 4ZZZ – The Yard
• Eastside Radio 89.7FM – The Last Waltz
• 3MBS Fine Music – Melbourne – Katy Abbot’s Hidden Thoughts

Best Radio Program – Talk

• 4RFM Moranbah Community Radio 96.9 – 4RFM Project Podcast
• MAINfm – Able Radio
• 2NBC 90.1 FM Radio – Days in Australia
• 100.9fm Noongar Radio – Law Matters
• City Park Radio – Rule of Thumb
• 2SER – Think: Sustainability

Best Special Event Broadcast

• 94.7 The Pulse – 2020 Geelong Council Election Candidates Forums
• 3CR Community Radio – Black Lives Matter Coverage
• 3KND Kool ‘N’ Deadly – Darebin Community Awards
• Fresh 92.7 – Fresh 92.7 All Nighter At Home
• RTRFM 92.1 – WA Mixtape

Best Station Fundraising Campaign

• RTRFM 92.1 – Collab Series Vol 1
• Fresh 92.7 – Heart Beats 2020 Fundraiser
• Vox FM – The Voice Of The Illawarra – Robin The Hood!
• 2MFM – Support 2MFM
• 89.9 TheLight – November 2020 Fundraising Campaign – Extra Day
• 98five – Speak Hope Share Hope June Appeal 2021

Best Station Fundraising Campaign – Small Station category

• 2SEA- Southern Community Radio – Chocolate Wheel
• Edge Radio 99.3FM – The Unprecedented Edge Radio Fundraiser

Best Station Production

• 3KND Kool ‘N’ Deadly – 3KND COVID-19 CSAs
• 3MDR 97.1 FM – Come Together | right now – Radiothon 2020
• Eastside Radio 89.7FM – Grow Our Audience
• RTRFM 92.1  – Holiday March
• PAW Media and Communications Washing Your Hands Jingle

Outstanding Youth Contribution

• 88.3 Southern FM – Bjorn S
• RTRFM 92.1 – Fiona Bartholomaeus
• 3KND Kool ‘N’ Deadly – Hayley McAdam
• 2nurfm – Isabel Everett
• 4RFM Moranbah Community Radio 96.9 – Sarah Peterson

Contribution to Australian Music – Radio Program category

Excellence in Community Engagement

• 98five
• Alive 90.5 FM
• Highland FM 107.1
• SWR 99.9 FM

Excellence in Digital Media

• 2nurfm – 2NURFM Hunter News
• 4RFM Moranbah Community Radio 96.9 – 4RFM Project Podcast
• 89.9 TheLight – 89.9 TheLight’s Digital Presence
• 2MCE – Blokes Don’t Talk

Excellence in Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasting

• Days in Australia, 90.1 NBC FM
• Global Jazz, 4EB
• Information, Awareness & Protection, 2MFM
• Latin Studio, 89.7FM Twin Cities
• Mafalda, 3CR Community Radio
• Mooncake, Triple R

Troy Garner Excellence in Sports Programming

• Marngrook Sports Show Radio Edition,3KND KoolNDeadly
• The Penalty Box, Edge Radio

Excellence in Indigenous Broadcasting

• Covid Report, Wangki Radio
• Law Matters, Noongar Radio
• Sandy Dann, Radio Goolarri

Excellence in Indigenous Engagement

• Standing Strong Together, 3KND KoolNDeadly
• 4ZZZ
• Phoenix FM Bendigo

Excellence in Innovative Programming and Content

• An Antechinus in the Attic 2-part special on Primary Perspectives, 3WBC 94.1 FM
• Binary Busing Broadcast, 3CR Community Radio
• Blokes Don’t Talk, 2MCEFM
• Music Mothers and Others, 2ser
• YAC Radio, Bay FM 99.9

The winners will be announced virtually in December 2021, and celebrated at the Gala Dinner at the CBAA Conference in 22-24 March in Cairns.