China Radio International broadcasting on AM, FM and Shortwave (on a radio near you !!)
LBP
Ltd) in Melbourne and they're relaying China Radio International.
China Radio International also get their message out over other
outlets in the major capitals.
This is what CNI had to say...
CRI Turns to Local Abroad
In addition to our short-wave broadcasts, we also try to make
ourselves heard on the local AM and FM frequencies in many parts of
the world through different forms of cooperation. We can now be heard
locally in cities like Washington, Los Angles, London, as well as
dozens of major cities across the world. If you're randomly tuning
your AM/FM receiver at your home or in your car, chances are you'll
meet us. Just check our programs section to find out the exact local
time and frequencies in your area.
More than 50 shortwave transmitters are used to cover most of the
world.
Here is a link to the CNI English schedule for South Pacific /
Australia.
http://english.cri.cn/4026/2007/04/27/4...@221047.htm
Shortwave Frequencies in Asia
http://english.cri.cn/4026/2007/04/27/4...@221043.htm
Also - there is an Australian radio company with VHF transmitters
in Melbourne and Sydney transmitting programs in Chinese language.
CHINA RADIO NETWORK PTY LTD *
2CR CHINA RADIO NETWORK PTY LTD
2CR China Radio Network (website)
China Radio Network Pty Ltd*
152.075 MHz narrowband FM VHF Melbourne and Sydney
* CHINA RADIO NETWORK PTY LTD - ASIC advises the company was de-
registered in 2005
http://www.search.asic.gov.au/cgi-bin/gns030c?acn=063_583_611&juris=9&hdtext=ACN&srchsrc=1
Interestingly the VHF NAS licenses are allocated to the de-registered
company *
http://web.acma.gov.au/pls/radcom/client_search.client_lookup?pCLIENT_NO=554524
The Philistine
same thing as the Chinese. I think they'd he happy with the outcome, but
national coordination and agreement on a strategy is the problem. And the
South Asian community is more divided along national and linguistic lines
than the Chinese. I have tried to help them get licences, but the owners in
the Capitals who are not using MF NAS assets are a bit slow off the mark.
To get some frequencies above 1629 kHz activated at full power in say
Melbourne, would involve securing a lease or sale from an existing owner.
Then the site issues would have to be sorted, and that isn't easy. I tried
to help an Indian group once actually, but I couldn't pull it off in
Melbourne, and the Sydney-based bloke was not keen on going to Adelaide or
Perth. Nor were they interested in following the Greek patern of using VHF
NAS above 108 MHz. They'll either have to get pumped about MF NAS or stick
with short spots on ethnic community radio. But they're still out thereand
time will tell if they have what ti takes to get organised and back such a
program for the Capitals. They should talk to Radio Ena who now has a near
national NAS network kinda read to rock for just sort of thing.
The Philistine
LBP
wrote:
Hi The Philistine,
Well the Indian community do have a VHF narrowband FM NAS station in
Melbourne
transmitting on 151.600 and there's a South Indian Tamil station on
152.300 MHz nbFM.
About using some of these MF AM NAS transmitter licenses - my own view
is that too many
have been holding onto these licenses and doing nothing with them for
years.
Look at Brisbane for example - now the person has the best intentions
for 1611 but really there
should be some kind of limit because I think it has been licensed to
this person for over 10 years
and still nothing.
Same goes with some Melbourne MF NAS licenses - and really it's a
terrible waste of opportunity
whereas somebody else could do something with these resources given a
chance.
Anyway - for now I'm not bothering with MF NAS - antennas and suitable
transmitter sites are too awkward.
VHF NAS is the new frontier for the Indy/Hobbyist narrowband-caster...
Station X
Brisvanni has been going for years on 1701 khz. The prick splats me on
1692khz when he plays things too loud.
1611khz is in the hands of old Florence. She is a piece of work. Ask
her to lease here license and you will get a fair responds upto the
point she realises she can do here silly hospital radio on it. Even
though she's getting money for nothing???? Nope just wait till she
kicks it!! Even then it's a frequency that will have issues!!
My dealings with the Indians hasn't been a nice one. They are very
much a "cut their own people down" type. I've been approached several
times over the years to use my 1692 because it's right next to
Brissvanni. Everything goes fine until the money part. One even had
the gall to ask for me to sign the transfer before he'd pay me. I
laughed and raised the price for the dick head factor!
LBP
asleep on the couch ..
About your channel and the Indian community - what you may be better
to do is lease the rights to use the license
for a fixed term with part/full payment in advance.
It would be an awful situation to have another GB Radio/World Audio
Radio 2 situation to occur.
Actually I'll paste in the story here as it makes for interesting
reading...
From 2003
Bitter expat radio row for control of airwaves
June 20 2003
GBRadio and WorldAudio are fighting for control of two narrowband
licences in a struggle that has reached two Supreme Courts. David
Elias reports.
The accents are distinctly English, not the modulated tones of the old
BBC but regional and chatty with plenty of what's-on information from
the Old Dart.
The radio station GBRadio broadcasts to a target audience of British
and Irish expatriates in Melbourne's eastern and south-eastern suburbs
on the 1620 AM band.
It is radio on the cheap using an over-the-counter medium-frequency
licence that broadcasts at the top end of the AM band where some older
receivers cannot pick it up.
It is also radio by remote control, operating from an unstaffed studio
at Bayswater in the shadow of the Dandenong Ranges, where a computer
takes the British program feed from the internet, inserts its own
advertising into the commercial breaks and puts it to air.
Station chief Roger Thomas has staked his future on the concept. He
hopes to network it across Australia and repeat it in other countries
with large British and Irish populations. He says he can provide
British travel authorities and other travel-related advertisers in
Britain with keenly sought outlets throughout the British Commonwealth
and elsewhere.
But first the former anti-terrorism specialist must extricate his
embryonic station from a nasty dispute full of twists and turns worthy
of a radio soap opera.
Mr Thomas, who first came here more than 20 years ago to demonstrate
bomb-disposal electronics to security forces, has been sucked into a
desperate race against time to get a new national radio network set up
before a Federal Government deadline in November.
His company, GBRadio (Australia), and a listed company, WorldAudio,
operator of Sydney's Radio2, are both claiming prior rights to use
disputed AM narrowband licences in Melbourne and Sydney.
The web is so tangled that aspects of the row have been aired in the
Supreme Court of Victoria, the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals
Tribunal and the NSW District Court. Next week it all goes before the
Supreme Court of NSW
Mr Thomas says his fight to secure and retain control of the two
licences has cost him $750,000 in legal fees and has required him to
remain in Australia away from his wife and children in Britain for
more than three years.
"I want to go home to my family and resume my life," he says, "But I
will not leave Australia until I get this business up and running. I
have invested so much time and money in this I have to stay."
The licences are the key to his ambitions but are also central to
WorldAudio's plans to challenge the supremacy of established
broadcasters.
WorldAudio has raised $13.5 million in two public issues since its
backdoor listing early last year on the strength of its plans to
establish a national radio network that will eventually use digital
technology.
The company has claimed that it has enforceable rights to the use of
the 1611 AM band in Sydney and the 1620 AM band in Melbourne, and it
has issued a Supreme Court writ in NSW demanding that Thomas's GBRadio
(Australia) transfer its licences to WorldAudio.
Thomas denies this and claims that WorldAudio has repudiated an
agreement with GBRadio. He is alleging that Radio2 is broadcasting
illegally and is using an unauthorised transmitter.
Thomas's lawyers have written to Communications Minister Richard
Alston, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the
Australian Communications Authority, seeking an investigation into the
allegedly illegal broadcasts and omissions in WorldAudio's
prospectuses.
Thomas says he is suspicious of WorldAudio's links to the Sydney
licensed clubs industry and believes the company has a long-term
agenda to set up a radio casino using interactive digital technology
when it becomes available.
A WorldAudio company announcement this week acknowledged Thomas's
complaint to the ACA. It said the directors, having received legal
advice, were of the view that the company was authorised to broadcast
under its agreement with the registered holder of the relevant
licence.
However, WorldAudio's annual accounts last October carried a
qualification from auditors Grant Thornton warning of uncertainty over
legal actions in connection with its use of the Sydney broadcast
licence and the possible effect on the company's status as a going
concern.
The long story began with a partnership dispute and an amazing
bureaucratic bungle by the ACA, the government body responsible for
issuing and policing medium frequency narrowband area service licences
under the 1992 Broadcasting Services Act.
The bands between 1606.5 and 1705 kHz had been abandoned by their
former military users and the government sold 270 licences to more
than 50 commercial users to work on emerging technologies.
In 1992 they were out of reach of the AM dial, but as many new radios
can now pick up signals above 1606.5, narrowcasting has become a cheap
and viable alternative for commercial radio. WorldAudio is one of only
four licensees with Australia-wide rights if they can acquire local
permits to link up a national network.
Originally sold over the counter for a nominal fee these licences are
tradeable on the open market and, as Thomas's dispute with WorldAudio
has shown, they can fetch at least $500,000 each.
Responding to concerns raised by the commercial radio industry,
Senator Alston put the brakes on new licences last October and
introduced a "use it or lose it" grandfather clause on existing
licence holders, who must have their services up and running by
November.
Thomas formed a partnership in 1992 with British migrant Pieter
Marchant to establish an expat radio network using three FM licences
and two of the new narrowcast licences.
The ACA issued the Sydney and Melbourne permits to P Marchant GB Radio
in 1995 and then transferred them without fee to the business when GB
Radio was registered in 1998. But after the two men fell out Marchant
wrote to the ACA in June 1999 complaining that he had been "conned"
out of the licences, and the ACA transferred them back to him in his
own name.
The ACA's letter of explanation to GBRadio was described by Justice
Barry Beach of the Victorian Supreme Court as "a masterpiece of
bureaucratic humbug worthy of the best of Yes, Minister". It told
GBRadio its original transfer application had not been made on the
appropriate form and it had not paid a transfer fee.
Justice Beach granted GBRadio an injunction in May 2000 restraining
Marchant from selling, transferring or otherwise dealing with the
licences, but Marchant, unbeknown to Thomas, had already leased the
Sydney licence for $500 a week. It had then been subleased for $3000 a
week to Kinloba, a private company associated with North Sydney
Leagues Club chief executive Jim Henry.
Then in the face of Justice Beech's injunction and under pressure from
an ACA inquiry into possible unlicensed broadcasting on 1611 kHz in
Sydney, Marchant signed a letter on December 1, 2000, authorising
Kinloba to use the Sydney licence to broadcast "so long as a court of
law does not determine that such lease is invalid".
The Kinloba lease was used initially to fire up the radio station Club
Radio but documents filed with ASIC show that in September 2001 Henry,
the federal president of the Club Managers Association sold Club Radio
and Kinloba to WorldAudio Communications. According to documentation
of a charge against WorldAudio Communications, which last year became
a subsidiary of the newly listed WorldAudio, the price was $1 million.
However, when WorldAudio opened its initial public offering for $6.5
million in April 2002 prospectuses revealed two use agreements that
gave the broadcaster leases on the Melbourne and Sydney licences at
$2000 a month for 10 years and options to buy them in 2011 for $1
million.
In one, Henry was to receive $800,000 of the purchase price and
Marchant $200,000. In the other GBRadio would receive the money if it
won its appeal in the AAT for the return of the two licences.
Thomas said he struck the deal with WorldAudio because it agreed to
broadcast his programs on its network, but even before GBRadio won in
the AAT, the agreement began to unravel amid allegations from Thomas
that WorldAudio's disclosure documents were misleading.
Thomas says: ' "I would have been happy with the arrangement if
WorldAudio had stuck to the deal but instead they wanted it all their
own way.
"Now they are trying to use the court to take my licences from me."
source:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/19/1055828434526.html