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Community Radio
Adrian Basso
18 years in community radio
Former CBAA Board President – 5 years and Treasurer – 3 years
Classical music station 3MBS 103.5FM – 8 years
Currently General Manager of alternative music station PBS 106.7FM – 9 years
Accounting degree and Diploma of Music Performance
The Australian Media Sector
260 commercial radio stations
65 government-funded stations: ABC and SBS
More than 350 community radio stations (long-term) plus 100 aspirant radio stations
The Community Radio Sector
40 years old
357 community radio stations
More than 22,000 volunteers
Extremely diverse
More on the Community Sector 19 Indigenous + 46% of stations include indigenous
programming
34 religious
15 Radio for the Print Handicapped
6 ethnic
8 youth
8 seniors/mature age
4 fine music stations
1 gay and lesbian station
Others include specialist music, the arts, university content
34% across metropolitan and suburban locations
41% in regional areas
25% in rural areas
How PBS makes ends meet
Every which way we can, in
line with our vision of:
nurturing, inspiring and
championing Melbourne’s
diverse music community
Main content
Listener support: members
and donors
Events: more content, money
and community
What else do we do? We support
the community.
Digital radio, a bump in the road