ROAR! – Central Coast radio station championing the voices of youth and people living with a disability

1 December 2024 Sarah Warry is the sales and station manager for Coast FM 963, a community radio station on the Central Coast of NSW. She contacted me this...

fbi.radio relaunches the Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship

18 September 2024 All The Best and fbi.radio have relaunched the Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship, an opportunity for four upcoming artists with a connection to Australia to accelerate...

The Wire – Community radio’s national current affairs program turns 20

11 March 2024 The Wire, a community radio national current affairs program and springboard for emerging and student journalists across Australia, is celebrating turning 20. It goes to...

Roadmap, Powerd and news collaborations the future for community broadcasting – CBAA CEO Jon Bisset

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...

Community broadcasters release Roadmap 2033

21 October 2023 Roadmap 2033, a ten-year plan for community broadcasters to achieve greater impact in every Australian community, was released today at a launch event held in...

Community radio gets help from Support Act

19 March 2020 The Community Broadcasting Foundation is partnering with Support Act to extend access to its Wellbeing Helpline to community broadcasters and station personnel. Support Act is...

Ian Stanistreet to retire

4 March 2020 Ian Stanistreet has announced his retirement as CEO of The Community Broadcasting Foundation after 20 years with the organisation. Ian’s career in community radio started...

CBF launches new website

29 August 2018 The Community Broadcasting Foundation has updated its website. The new site has a new look and fell, with improved responsiveness.

Tax-deductability to support community broadcasters

26 October 2017 Donations to the Community Broadcasting Foundation are now tax deductible. The tax deducatbility status was confirmed today by Communications Minister Mitch Fifield: “I am pleased...

Community radio photographic competition winners announced

25 September 2017 The Community Broadcasting Foundation has announced the winners of its 'Community Radio & TV is YOU' photo competition for 2017. CBF received 129 images of...

Insiders tips on how to get money out of the CBF for your station

25 June 2017 Tip #1: Explain. Explain.

CMTO training applications have opened

4 April 2017 APPLICATIONS FOR 2017 HAVE NOW CLOSED. The Community Media Training Organisation is planning its training schedule for the year.

CBF 2015 Annual Report: $17.6M Allocated

28 October 2015 The Community Broadcasting Foundation has released its annual report for 2015 which outlines 2014/2015 spending. In the past year the CBF allocated $17,607,547 to support...

The NEMBC petitions the Community Broadcasting Foundation

16 July 2015 The NEMBC has once again made its objections on the proposed changes to the Community Broadcasting Foundation known. The CBF released a paper on the...

The Wire turns 10

10 June 2014 And we don't mean the TV series about drugs. The Wire is a daily current affairs program broadcast exclusively on Community and Indigenous radio stations...