14 April 2025 On Monday April 4 2005 triple j welcomed a brand new announcer to lunchtimes. Her name was Zan Rowe.
10 May 2024 Laura Green is departing Melbourne's SYN radio station after one year as community manager and six as a volunteer. She said: “SYN built my confidence...
22 November 2023 The six week fundraising effort to ‘Keep SYN Alive’ has raised more than $60,000 and allowed the station to plan for 2024. SYN General Manager...
25 August 2021 Johan Lee is moving on from his position as Operations Manager of SYN. Johan has been part of the SYN community since 2014, starting as...
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...
29 June 2021 There are some staff changes at SYN, with a new Community Manager and outgoing Social Enterprise Manager. SYN’s new Community Manager, Alicia Lehmann, has been...
27 April 2021 SYN's latest addition to the staff team is Bec Grech as Community Engagement Coordinator. Bec has been floating around the community media landscape for a...
17 March 2020 Three of Australia's major radio training organisations, AFTRS, CMTO and SYN have released contingency plans to tackle the coronavirus. In response to the COVID-19...
16 March 2020 SYN Media have appointed Evrim Şen as the organisation’s new General Manager. Evrim joined SYN’s digital channel as Co-Radio Manager, working with regional stations across Australia...
23 January 2020 SYN Media's General Manager, Campbell McNolty, will be stepping down in late March 2020. Campbell is a lifelong lover of community radio and has worked at...
7 August 2019 Brisbane community radio station 4ZZZ and Amrap, the CBAA’s Australian Music Radio Airplay Project, are joining forces to present Sounds Like Community Radio, a live...
11 June 2019 SYN will release four original podcasts as the culmination of its Podcast Incubator, a mentoring and professional development program for five emerging producers all under...
7 May 2019 Murdoch University’s Campus Radio course has returned to community radio airwaves for another year, with over forty students taking part, the largest cohort of students...
16 April 2019 From Monday April 22nd, SYN will present one consistent program of young voices across SYN 90.7FM and SYN’s DAB+ digital radio channel meaning all of SYN’s radio programs will be...
8 June 2018 Campbell McNolty has been appointed as the new General Manager for SYN Melbourne, replacing Tess Lawley. McNolty moves into the General Manager position after...
27 April 2018 Lawley started at SYN in 2012 as a volunteer announcer. Youth media organisation SYN Media has announced that Tess Lawley will be stepping down...
26 April 2017 The SYN radio team are reshaping the sound of SYN in the coming weeks, with a multitude of voice clips for 90.7FM and their digital...
26 August 2015 US research company Edison Research has found that young people are now using the internet more than radio to find new music. Edison Research's latest...
6 August 2015 Trainers from SYN will be holding a training weekend at Brophy in Timor Street Warrnambool this Saturday and Sunday from 11 til 4 both days....
14 July 2015 Youth-run community broadcaster SYN has launched two new radio programming grids, now broadcasting from their new studios in Melbourne’s CBD. SYN’s new radio studios on RMIT...
25 May 2015 The Melbourne Student Youth Network station SYN knows a thing or two about what its young audience wants and needs - including advice on leaving...
12 May 2015 Melbourne Community station SYN is entering the budget lock-up today before broadcasting the federal budget at 9pm on 90.7FM and SYN Nation as well as...
8 May 2015 As the Macquarie Radio Network prepares to broadcast the Federal Budget for the first time, so too does community radio. A team of 11 volunteers...
10 February 2015 SYN is celebrating World Radio Day on Friday by setting up at RMIT Melbourne, for an OB to acknowledge the power of youth in Radio....
23 September 2014 If you’re a young person or know a secondary school student who is thinking of pursuing a career in the media then here’s a chance...
16 September 2014 Tess Lawley has been appointed as the new General Manager. Tess is currently the National Youth Media Project Coordinator on SYN Nation, SYN’s digital station...
11 June 2014 SYN Media's General Manager Tahlia Azaria is leaving the Melbourne youth broadcaster to take on a new role as Marketing and Fundraising Officer at the...
2 April 2014 A new community digital radio channel, SYN Nation, run by young people, for young people, has been launched by Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The service...
14 February 2014 For World Radio Day this week, SYN celebrated with a 'Get Cereal, literally' event in the morning and finished the day by combining the weekly music...
