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Australia Day Honours 2020 Dr Shane Huntington was awarded the Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia. Dr Shane has presented the Einstein A Go-Go, show in Melbourne’s Triple R since 1993. Community broadcasters have once again featured strongly in the Governor General's Australia Day Honours List, in addition to various other local community awards announced on 26 January 2020. Recipients come from right across the country and from all walks of life. While some well-known people receive awards, many more are known only to those they help and serve day-in-day-out. All recipients are worthy of recognition and celebration. Receiving an Award acknowledges the hard work and dedication of community radio staff, and the important role that community radio plays in connecting communities. See the list of recipients on our website. Going above and beyond in times of emergencies Throughout the recent bushfire crisis and in the aftermath, community radio has remained a vital source of local emergency information and space for community connection. The CBAA has reached out to almost 80 community radio stations in bushfire affected regions, and have heard firsthand how the fires have affected our stations and the volunteers that support them, and about the number of ways stations are serving communities by sharing local information and providing a medium for connection and resilience. Here are just a handful of those stories. Latest News CBAA Webinar Series The All-New Radio Website Services - Wednesday 26 February 2020, 2pm AEDT. Radio Website Services (RWS) offers community broadcasters an affordable, attractive, mobile-friendly website. With more listeners looking to connect with their station on a digital front, now is the best time to establish your station in the online sphere. RWS makes it easy and affordable for CBAA member stations of all shapes and sizes to create and manage their very own station websites. Register now. New additions to the Community Radio Network (CRN) Two new programs begin on the CRN in February. From Eastside Radio, the CBAA Award winning Another World begins Saturdays at 08:04 AEDT, repeating Mondays 19:04 AEDT. Get to know the show here. And from JOY 94.9 FM, Checkpoint brings gaming news and reviews, celebrating the industry's diversity. Learn more about Checkpoint here.   Positions Available Fine Music 102.5FM  Executive Assistant 2RPH Sponsorship and Sales Manager  Community Media Training Organisation (CMTO) Communications Coordinator SYN General Manager Educational Program Trainer & Producer  Study with the Communtity Media Training Organisation (CMTO) Certificate III in Screen and Media. The CUA31015 Certificate III in Media reflects the role of a skilled operator in the film, television, radio or digital media industries who applies a broad range of competencies in a varied work context. Based in Sydney, this 26-week course will run one day a week starting in February 2020, with studio tours, hands-on radio presentation and qualified trainers experienced in the media industry. Sign up here.   Tamworth Country Music Festival Last week community stations around Australia woke up with the Good Morning Country team live at the Tamworth Country Music Festival. Saturday night Kev, Mike, Georgie and Kylie (also joined by 3KND's Natasha Ferre Bentley) brought stations the 48th annual Golden Guitar Awards featuring a suite of performances from Australian country's biggest names, including Lee Kernaghan (pictured with GMA's Kev, above right). The team caught a swathe of interviews with the night's winners which are this week distributing through the Community Radio Network. Music moving the CBAA Amrap charts # Dads Freedom Fighter #1 Dads is the solo project of Melbourne based musician Tom Iansek, whose latest release Freedom Fighter is the first taste of the forthcoming album Golden Repair. Freedom Fighter is perfect example of Iansek’s knack for melding introspective musings and indie-pop and has debuted in second place on the Metro Chart this week Leading the way on the Regional Chart is Melbourne’s Kingswood, kicking off 2020 with the announcement of their long awaited third studio album Juveniles with a new single, the intoxicating Bittersweet. which went straight to number one this week. For the full story on Amrap's regional and metro charts visit this week's update!

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