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Inside this issue: music compilations in community radio, meet the program maker, how to run effective board meetings, community media and digital storytelling + more.

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Last night, community broadcasters from across Australia gathered in Terrigal NSW for the 2015 CBAA Community Radio Awards.

Around 50 representatives from metro, sub metro and regional stations gathered to learn about the establishment and development of community digital radio, hosted by Kath Letch and featuring Phillip Randall, Chair of the Digital Radio Consultative Committee, Philip Shine, Digital Radio Project Manager, and David Sice, Technical Consultant.

CBAA Conference Keynote Speaker Wendy Bacon's address was an incredibly inspiring look at her own experience of the impact of community media and ideas for the future.

The CBAA is saddened and disappointed to hear about the events that occurred on Sunday, 1 November and extend our full support to 3CR.

A quick scan of his past interviewees is enough to convince anyone Stuart Coupe is something of a bona-fide Australian music legend – never mind a career also spent managing record labels and some of the household names in Australian music. While the Sydney-based Coupe finds himself at FBi to present Tune Up each Tuesday, on Saturdays he’s at 2SER for Dirt Music which covers the history of roots, country, Americana and blues. It is one of the more recent additions to the Community Radio Network schedule, increasing the audience of someone who has been talking and living the music biz for some decades.

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