Community broadcasters have once again featured strongly in the Governor General's Australia Day Honours List, in addition to various other local community awards announced as part of Australia Day celebrations.
 
Receiving an Award acknowledges the hard work and dedication of community radio staff, and the important role that community radio plays in connecting communities.
 

 Jeff Sparrow is stepping down from co-hosting Breakfasters after three and a half years on air having decided to spend more time focusing on his writing.

Jeff started with 3RRR out as a contributor to Aural Text in 2010, then going on to host Hullabaloo on Wednesday mornings, before joining Gez & Sarah on Breakfasters in 2015.

His final broadcast will be on Friday 10 May at the Northcote Social Club from 6am to 9am.

A free exhibition that marks the 40th anniversary of Triple R, Melbourne’s iconic and much-loved community radio station opens tomorrow, Friday 18 November 2016.

Melbourne's Triple R has announced a series of special events, celebrations and projects to mark the station’s 40th birthday.

November Max Headroom Specials

On Thursday at 7pm each week in November an iconic live-to-air performance from each decade of the station’s history will be pulled from the Triple R vaults and presented by current presenters. You’ll have to tune in to hear what performance is chosen to represent each decade

Friday 18 November marks the public launch of ON AIR: 40 years of 3RRR, a 3-month exhibition at the State Library of Victoria celebrating the station’s history. There will be a host of live events and broadcasts on site highlighting different aspects of the exhibition and celebrating this milestone in the station’s history, running until 29 January 2017.
 

Two fans, an author, a poet, a broadcaster and a lawyer walk into a podcast... and all hell breaks loose.
 
What a week it has been for Eddie McGuire, yet if it hadn’t had been for a group of footy loving women perhaps not a word would have been said about his ‘joke’ that caused a national furore.
 

3RRR's Radiothon is on throughout most of September offering listeners a chance to be in the running for the prize draw when they support the iconic Melbourne community station.

Triple R relies on sponsorship and listener subscriptions to keep running.

The radiothon is the station’s annual subscription drive that funds over half the station's operations each year.

Glen Morrow has won the RMIT Media Prize for Radio, presented by radioInfo for his outstanding academic results in the program.

Bruce Berryman, course co-ordinator for Radio 1 & 2 at RMIT has told radioinfo:

"Glen also won the award for his overall participation in the radio courses. Glen's long experience in community radio was a real asset to the program and to the other members of the cohort.