A comprehensive new website designed specifically for the community broadcasting sector in Western Australia has just been launched by the WA Community Broadcasting Association (WACBA).

The new website contains more than 60 pages detailing the history and contemporary experience of Western Australian community broadcasting and many photographs.

The site also includes expansive segments on station start-up and training, as well as WA station profiles, WACBA member signature pages, downloadable documents, and useful sector links.

Also featured is a historic 1988 speech about the advent and early progress of community broadcasting in Western Australia.

The association’s president Andrew Brine says he is “greatly impressed by the quality, depth of content and extent of research that had gone into the new website’s development.”

“Visually the layout is clean, simple and pleasing to the eye and the information, too, is so easy to read and digest. It will greatly assist all those who want to be or are already involved with the community broadcasting sector in Western Australia,” says Brine.

The new website was written and developed for WACBA by Sharyn Peacocke and Marc Lansdorp of Shamar Communications Pty Ltd with funding provided by the Community Broadcasting Foundation (CBF). The CBF and the Lotteries Commission of Western Australia are sponsoring WACBA’s major projects in 2003.

Visit the new WACBA website at www.wacba.com