FBI RADIO

' FBi Radio' is an independent, community radio station in Sydney, Australia. FBi places a heavy emphasis on local alternative music: it has a policy that at least 50 per cent of its music content is to be Australian, of which at least half comes from Sydney musicians. FBi Radio was the first radio station in the world to play bands such as Wolfmother, Muscles and Angus & Julia Stone
After making a series of short-term broadcasts over some ten years, FBi Radio was granted a permanent licence by the Australian Broadcasting Authority in 2002. A failed takeover attempt by one of the losing bidders for the permanent licence, Wild FM (a more commercially-oriented dance music station) pushed FBi's full-time 24/7 broadcast to August 2003.^[1]
Its current president is Cassandra Wilkinson who is also an author and senior public servant and freight expert in the New South Wales Government. [1]

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Format

Studios

Staff

References

External links

Format

FBi is now recognised as Sydney's only independent youth radio station, broadcasting across the city basin on 94.5FM with a signal strength as large as their commercial rivals - reaching Gosford, Blue Mountains and Wollongong. Its roll call of broadcasters has included Ajax, Kid Kenobi, Mark Dynamix (all voted as Best DJ in Australia in a National Poll); Deepchild and Pimmon (aka Paul Gough), two of Australia's foremost electronic producers; Jamie Leonarder aka Jay Katz; Triple J and former SBS Film Critic Marc Fennell; manager of Diplo's 'Heaps Decent' label, DJ and promoter Andrew Levins; Cyclic Defrost editor Matthew Levinson; Fat Planet blog editor Stuart Buchanan; and television comedian and filmaker Dan Ilic.

Studios

The studios of FBi are located in Botany Rd., Alexandria, in the same building as the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia.

Staff

FBi is predominantly a volunteer-based organization.

References

1. ''Licence to thrill'', Sydney Morning Herald, September 1, 2003

External links

★ FBi Radio official website