OCR FM

OCR FM is a non-profit community radio station based in Colac, Victoria, Australia. OCR is a volunteer organisation with no employed staff, broadcasting 24 hours a day and seven days a week, with locally produced programming supplemented by locally produced announcements and music.

OCR FM is a non-profit community radio station based in Colac, Victoria, Australia. OCR is a volunteer organisation with no employed staff, broadcasting 24 hours a day and seven days a week, with locally produced programming supplemented by locally produced announcements and music.

First test broadcast

1991 – 99.1Mhz FM – duration 1 week (6 am – 12 am, transmitter was shut down every night of the test transmission at midnight) The first test broadcast was to gather interest from the listening public, and was quite successful, with public donations given throughout the broadcast in exchange for "Bribes To Subscribe" – (CD's, Books, Store Vouchers etc. that the station members and a few businesses had donated).

Apollo Bay Studio

Once a Colac studio was established, the OCR FM committee set about involving even more volunteers in their licence area. A committee of dedicated volunteers in the Apollo Bay area set about establishing a studio in Apollo Bay. Bryan Dwyer was a driving force, having been involved in community radio elsewhere previously. He completed radio training with members of the Colac-based volunteers and began travelling to Colac weekly to present 'Sunday at the Bay' in the afternoons from the Colac studio, bringing news and music from Apollo Bay. After many months of planning meetings and working bees, a studio was created at the Youth Club in Apollo Bay. The Apollo Bay OCR FM members were trained up to use the radio equipment and on Wednesday 25 August 2010 at 7 pm, OCR FM broadcast its first live program from the new Apollo Bay studio (A Touch of Nostalgia with Allen Hokin). The studio successfully ran a number of different programs live each week until June 2013, when the Apollo Bay radio presenters decided to form their own committee and attempt to start up their own community radio station under the name Apollo Bay Radio Inc. The studio continued as a relay station until 8 October 2013. After several months of planning and testing a new transmission site was approved. OCR FM recommenced transmission in Apollo Bay on 20 February 2015.

References

External links

CBAA

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