The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) has congratulated local radio champion Keith Conlon OAM on being awarded the Key to the City of Adelaide.

Keith was the station manager at Australia‘s first community broadcaster 5UV, now known as Radio Adelaide.

He has remained steadfast in his support for the sector.

For more than 50 years, Keith has been at the forefront of the local community, whether it be teaching, broadcasting or championing Adelaide’s parklands and heritage.

Leading the 5UV team in the 1970s remains one of his proudest achievements.

“We were lucky to be part of a movement that believed media didn’t need to be purely commercial or national,” Keith told Glam Adelaide.

He says the key is for all the great people he’s worked with over the years. But how best to use it?

“Figuratively? I’d love it to unlock a South Australian Social History Museum,” Keith says.

“We need a place where people can go and say, ‘I didn’t know that,’ and connect with our past.”