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v  Community Radio Audience Explosion: An incredible 57% of Australians aged over 15 listen to community radio every month! That's over 9.5 million people listening every month. Just 2 years ago the figure was only 47% - a jump of 1.7 million listeners in two years.
These figures were obtained from the 2008 McNair Ingenuity Community Radio Listenership Survey, issued in Canberra on October 14, 2008.  Read more.

News at 98.9 North West FM

v  98.9 North West FM is a community radio station and we broadcast from the North West suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Check out the links on this page to our broadcast map, program guide, presenters, ethnic radio programs and our radio training school.

v  Streaming on the internet
We have been streaming live on the internet since July and the quality is very good.
If you have not used our radio streaming feature before, click on the “Streaming Information” link below the orange “Listen Live” button at the top right of this page. This will explain bypassing the popup blocker that most computers use.
Then every time you want to hear us streaming, simply click on the orange “Listen Live” button at the top right of this page.

v  Radio Training Course

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Our training courses run over four days (on weekends) and attendance on all four days is compulsory.

The next radio training course will be held in February 2012 on Saturday 4th, Sunday 5th, Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th.

Bookings and expressions of interest are now being taken for this course. Read more

Email us to have your name added to our waiting list for this course.

v  Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea

On Thursday May 26 at 10.30 am, North West FM again hosted Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea.

Thanks to all who came along and shared a cuppa and helped raise much needed funds to assist the Cancer Council in research and support services.

v  Sports of All Sorts score again in the 2010-11 Cricket Victoria Media Awards
Congratulations to Joe Mangiafico and Frank Siliato from Sports of all Sorts for their highly commended award in the category of Community Radio Award at the 2010-11 Cricket Victoria Media Awards on Monday 11 April 2011.  Read more 
Joe and Frank give a tremendous thanks to Mel Jones (Essendon Maribyrnong Park Ladies Cricket Club), Catherine Morrow (Brunswick Park Cricket Club), Bill Tucknott (Coburg Cricket Club) and everyone else who had a segment during the summer period for contributing to the success of Sports Of All Sorts at the Cricket Victoria Media Awards.
Ivor Jenkins won this Community Radio Award last year for Sports Of All Sorts. Read more
The award winning radio program Sports of all Sorts and its guests keep you up to date each week with all the latest detailed summary of local sporting news on Saturday mornings.

News Archive

v  Additional news items older than 12 months can be found in our News Archive.

New Program Highlights

v  Check out our new programs: Stibbard Me Timbers. Somali Program, Party Connection - Electronic Therapy Style, Not Enough 90’s, Roarhouse Radio, Assyrian, The Bash With Kate & James, The Late Show, Keep Left, Rob Likes It Raw, Croatian Forum, Barely Breaking Even, The Jump Off, Overload, The Movement With Jay, Environmentality, Samoan Program, Official FSCOVA Program, Indo-Fijian Show, The Haberdashery Show, Obscuriosity Shoppe, Cool For Cats, and Music With Milton.

v  Cricket (VTCA) returns for the 2011/2012 season:

·         (VTCA): The North West Cricket Report - Sunday review 6 pm - 9 pm

v  Check out our full Program Guide.

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Portions of some of our programs (Rob Likes It Raw, EDFL Match of the Day, Environmentality and The C Spot) are now available through the CBAA podcast website.

Click here and scroll down to “Stations and Feeds” and select “98.9 North West FM”.

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21 January 2012