3MDR Mountain District Radio (3MDR 40th Birthday podcast series)
$4,400
To produce a series of podcast episodes celebrating the 40th Birthday of 3MDR, featuring interviews with founders, current members, volunteers, broadcasters, staff, as well as members of the community and some of the many musical artists who have started and sustained their careers with the support of community radio. The podcasts will also feature live music recorded at 3MDR over the course of our history.
3RPP Radio Port Philip Association (RPP News)
$21,736
RPP News is a daily local radio news bulletin that targets the specific local news needs of our community and broadcast area. RPP News generates online stories and is the basis of a weekly 20-minute television edition – giving our crews even broader audio-visual TV experience and allowing RPP to deliver news across a range of audio-visual mediums. Funding will facilitate hands-on news experiences for volunteers and media students in radio, journalism, and news presentation.
4MUR Mackay & District Aboriginal & Islander Media Assoc. Ltd. (My105.9FM) (Christmas Concert)
$10,000
4MUR Mackay & District Aboriginal & Islander Media Assoc. Ltd. (My105.9FM) will host a Christmas Concert for the Indigenous community to finish the year on a good note and give hope to struggling families doing it tough during Christmas. Recordings of the production and interviews with local community will be broadcasted live on the radio.
2FBi Radio (Up For It: FBi’s breakfast program)
$33,127
Up For It, FBi Radio’s flagship breakfast program, to transition to a team of two daily co-hosts and one executive producer. This shift fosters career opportunities for emerging radio talent, enhances content quality and engagement, and secures program sustainability. Beyond revitalising Up For It, our vision is to position FBi Radio as the arrival point for radio talent and audiences in Sydney, challenging the perception of community radio as merely a stepping stone.
Kintsugi Heroes Ltd – Vision Australia Radio (Story Telling for Recovery and Resilience)
$17,810
For the production of 52 30-minute episodes broadcast on Vision Australia Radio where people (Kintsugi Heroes) voice their real-life overcoming-adversity stories to provide hope and inspiration to people who are experiencing similar challenges. We also seek to help people reframe their thinking of adversity to see the hidden value in their experience. The stories will give a voice on a range of diverse important themes that often are not raised enough including, living with disabilities, loss of a child, living with cancer, mental illness, addiction, domestic violence, grief, trauma, abuse, alienation eg. cultural or gender diversity, poverty and economic hardship.
RMITV Student Community Television Incorporated/ Lemon Meringue Pictures (Displaced) C-01715
$30,000
Stranded in the year 2000 by an experiment gone wrong, a depressed, dysfunctional physicist decides to fix her future by “mentoring” her own younger self.
DISPLACED is a comedy about depression, queerness, making trouble, healing your inner child and being seen.
Funding is for the DISPLACED team to pay the cast and crew, who are all young, emerging screen practitioners who have been working at the community and semi-professional level and are ready to take further steps into professional screen production. What’s not spent on salaries will all be visible “on screen”, recreating 2000-era Melbourne both practically and digitally, elevating the production value and setting a new benchmark for independent web content and community TV.
6TCR Wanneroo Joondalup Regional Broadcasting Assn Inc (Twin Cities FM) (Program development for five new Ethnic programs)
$10,000
After identifying local ethnic groups from statistics of the three local councils, Twin Cities FM has reached out to local Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian, Maori and Indian community groups to develop new language programs for the station. The programs will promote their cultures to the listening audience and include news, events, music, translated emergency or community notices, and niche topics that are specific to the cultures themselves. The station has conducted consultation with ethnic group representatives and the funding will facilitate information and training sessions at the station.