15 September 2024 Alexander 'Lex' Marinos OAM died on Friday September 13 after a two decade battle with leukemia. His family said in a Facebook post: "He died...
10 September 2024 The South Australian Community Broadcasters Association (SACBA) and SA community stations have come together their 2024 Conference and Bilby Awards in Adelaide. There were station...
12 June 2024 Perth community station 92.1 RTRFM has supported local music across more than 40 years. Musician and label head Mark Neal has returned with a second...
14 May 2024 The Treasurer Jim Chalmers has delivered his 2024 Federal Budget in Canberra. For media and media related organisations it was a steady budget, with few...
31 October 2023 It passed quietly but February 2023 was the 10th anniversary of Jon Bisset taking over as General Manager, now Group CEO of The Community Broadcasting...
7 November 2022 Seymour FM, Seymour Puckapunyal Community Radio Inc (103.9 FM), is located on the lands of the Taungurung people in the regional town of Seymour in...
13 July 2022 The NEMBC’s Multicultural AFL Footy TV show will broadcast its 100th show this Thursday. What began as an experimental TV pilot program in 2018 has...
23 June 2022 Community media organisations across Australia received a share of over $10.8 million in the first grants round for 2022/23. The funding supports hundreds of inspiring...
10 May 2022 The NEMBC National Conference will be held from May 27th to 29th at the Pullman on the Park in Melbourne. The theme for this year’s...
13 August 2021 SYN will release two original podcasts created and produced by young people in SYN’s 2020/21 Podcast Incubator program. The CBAA Award-winning Podcast Incubator is a mentoring...
30 July 2021 SYN is just about to release two original podcasts created and produced by young people in SYN’s 2020/21 Podcast Incubator program. The CBAA Award-winning Podcast...
11 May 2021 Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has delivered the federal budget with a focus on "creating jobs and rebuilding the economy," as Australia continues to recover from the...
28 October 2020 President of the Community Broadcasting Foundation, Ian Hamm has welcomed participants to this year’s CBAA virtual conference, reflecting on a “year like no other” In a...
8 October 2020 CEO of the Community Broadcasting Foundation, Jo Curtin, will be part of a panel session discussing the opportunities for stations at this year’s CBAA Conference. Jo...
23 September 2020 The Community Broadcasting Foundation will provide support over the next four years for the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia to assist community radio’s transition to...
10 September 2020 Today, on World Suicide Prevention Day and R U OK Day?, Health Minister Greg Hunt has announced the extension of funding for the CBAA’s National...
9 September 2020 Kim Borrowdale is a communications specialist who lends her expertise to socially conscious organisations, many of these in the mental health and suicide prevention sector....
17 July 2020 Ian Stanistreet retired from his position as CEO of the Community Broadcasting Foundation yesterday, after exactly 20 years in the job. Ian has spent almost 40...
24 June 2020 The Community Broadcasting Foundation (CBF) has appointed Jo Curtin as its new Chief Executive Officer. The appointment to the Australian community broadcasting sector’s funding agency...
28 April 2020 The Community Broadcasting Foundation opened up the new COVID-19 Crisis Grant today. This is one of a series of measures the CBF is taking to support community...
22 April 2020 Along with many Australians, community radio services are currently facing significant challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The severity of the impact of COVID-19 is accelerating...
15 April 2020 The Community Broadcasting Fund is making emergency COVID-19 funding available to community broadcasters who are struggling in the current pandemic. CBF President, Ian Hamm, says...
23 January 2020 Melbourne community broadcaster 3WRB Stereo974 has shut down, citing a lack of available funding and support to continue operations. Founded in 1978, the station operated in...
23 January 2020 The recent closure of 3WRB Stereo974 has highlighted the problems some community stations have remaining financially viable while trying to service their communities and/or special...
30 November 2019 At the opening of today’s NEMBC Conference in Brisbane, local member Terri Butler (pictured) told ethnic broadcasting delegates: “Your leadership is important. Good leadership is...
26 October 2019 Ally Newton offered her audience chocolate prizes as they focused on how they could work towards the big prize of winning CBF grants for their...
20 September 2019 Three community radio stations, ArtSound FM, 1CMS and 1WAY FM have relocated their FM transmitter site to Black Mountain near Canberra, thanks to a recent...
31 July 2019 The Community Broadcasting Foundation is inviting submissions from suitably qualified consultants to provide independent, expert advice and guidance on how the they can best invest...
8 July 2019 Beyond the Bars, Australia’s only live prison radio broadcast series, giving a voice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inmates in Victorian jails, celebrates it’s...
7 June 2019 Engagement and participation, governance, content creation and technical streams will be the workshops be covered over two big days at the 2019 CBAA Conference in...
