Wendy McWilliam has joined the CBAA as Marketing, Communications and Events Manager.

This week Tamworth’s 88.9 FM celebrated 5 years since the community station re branded from 2YOU FM, a major change for the station and the result of extensive research.

The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia has released a report on the state of the community broadcasting sector.

According to the report the sector is well positioned with a record six million weekly listeners, 26,000+ volunteers and thousands of financial members and subscribers.

In the lead up to the Federal Election the CBAA is seeking a guarantee from all parties for continuing recurrent support to ensure the sector survives.
 
It is also asking for an extra $5.1 million annually to allow a larger development and operations grants pool through the General Sustainability and Development Fund to meet the growing needs of community radio stations.

The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) is one of 23 winners in the Google News Initiative (GNI) Asia Pacific Innovation Challenge.
 
Selected from 215 applicants across the region, the CBAA is one of five Australian winners. 
 
The CBAA’s project is focused on digital philanthropy and digital content in community radio news and will receive a share of the total $3.2 million funding pool.
 

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Macquarie University have appointed Martin Walters as Managing Director of radio station 2SER.
 
Walters has been working in broadcasting for 20 years and joins 2SER from a leadership role at the CBAA where he managed its national programming service, the Community Radio Network (CRN).
 
 This role included establishing multimedia content projects and leading a digital transition process.
 

After 8 years on the CBAA board, Natalie Pozdeev stepped aside from her role this year and looked back on how Community radio has changed in the past decade and on the bigger role women are now taking in the sector.
 

Last week came the announcement that the CRA and would be joining the BBC and NAB to put radio front and centre in car audio with DTS Connected Radio.
 
All in Media (AIM), part of the Xperi family, will assist in the development and radioinfo was able to ask AIM’s Senior Digital Producer, Richard Phelps, for his views on the development and on where the current state of play sits.