Curtin FM

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Curtin FM 100.1
City Bentley, Western Australia
Broadcast area Perth
Slogan A Lifetime of Music
Frequency 100.1 MHz FM
First air date16 October 1976
Format Community
Language(s) English
Website Curtinfm.com.au

Curtin FM 100.1 is a radio station based in Perth, Western Australia. The station broadcasts from studios at the Bentley campus at Curtin University. As well as broadcasting on radio, the station also broadcasts digitally on CurtinDG as well as live-streaming via their website.

Perth City in Western Australia

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Curtin University University in Perth, Western Australia

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History

The station was formerly known as Curtin Radio 927, and became the state's first community broadcaster on 16 October 1976. [1] The station held one of only five special licences granted by the then Minister for the Media, Moss Cass, after he 'discovered' community radio in the United States. CurtinFM is still officially known as 6NR (6 New Radio), and the Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT), now Curtin University, continues to hold the licence.

Moses Henry "Moss" Cass is a former member of the Australian House of Representatives. Born in Narrogin, Western Australia, Cass was educated in state schools before graduating in Medicine from the University of Sydney and was employed as a Fellow at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne and as Director of the Melbourne-based Trade Union Clinic and Research Centre. His union activities led to his pre-selection as the Labor candidate for the federal seat of Maribyrnong, which he won from the Liberals in 1969. Prior to that, he had unsuccessfully contested the seats of Kooyong and La Trobe in 1961 and 1963 respectively. Cass became part of the first national Labor government in 23 years when Gough Whitlam led the ALP to power in the 1972 election.

After 26 years of AM broadcasting, the station converted to the FM Band in 2002. The radio station is available on the DAB+ format (digital radio) as CURTINDG and is also available on the World Wide Web.

According to their website, CurtinFM has a weekly cumulative listenership in excess of 239,000 people (all ages 15+) and has more than four thousand subscribing members. CurtinFM also has more than 100 on-air & production volunteers.

The main daytime presenters are paid a salary. Any Volunteer Presenter who fills-in for a daytime presenter is paid a small stipend but all other on-air positions are unpaid.

All Curtin Radio Staff including Volunteers are engaged as a "University Associate" at Curtin University and are considered Curtin University Staff.

Presenters

As of 2015

Breakfast Greg Pearce, Glenn Mitchell (Monday - Friday alternating shifts) Mornings Peter Waltham [2] Afternoons Jenny Seaton [3] Drivetime Ray Finn [4]

Volunteer presenters and producers broadcast during the evenings and weekends.

Newsroom

A training ground for students who study at the Curtin School of Journalism, CurtinFM has assisted with producing some of Western Australia's most respected radio and television journalists. [5] [6]

The CurtinFM Newsroom is staffed by two full-time cadet journalists, Courtney Thornton and Louis Zambotto[ citation needed ]. It is also occasionally staffed by volunteer students, who study at the Curtin School of Journalism and prepare news bulletins.

The station has news updates from 6AM to 6PM each weekday and 6AM to Midday on weekends.

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  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 April 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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