Australia’s oldest community radio station Radio Adelaide celebrates its 50th birthday this week having first gone to air on June 28th 1972.
Formerly known as Radio VL-5UV, the station first went to air on June 28, 1972 with a transmission that extended 20 miles north and south of Adelaide.
Today, Radio Adelaide is a fully independent station that can be heard right across the Adelaide metro area, as well as in parts of the mid-north, Fleurieu and Yorke Peninsulas and its 150 volunteers produce over 120 hours of original, local content every week, ranging from news and current affairs to music programming.
Radio Adelaide’s new Eastwood studios will be officially unveiled at the South Australian Community Broadcasting Association’s annual conference later this year.
The first educational radio station was UNSW's VL-2UV in 1961. Like VL-5UV (1972), both stations were experimental stations. VL-5UV expanded as a full broadcaster while VL-2UV broadcast courses on 1740kHz from a 500w transmitter located at Concord West. VL-2UV ceased transmission in 1986.
Of note is that UNSW transmitted post graduate course material on television in the UHF band.
Today one can visit Youtube and search for undergraduate and postgraduate content provided by universities and other contributors.
reference:
https://ajet.org.au/index.php/AJET/article/download/2377/1196/7479
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