2BACR

2BACR
City	Bankstown, New South Wales
Branding	2BACR
Slogan	Connecting the Community
Format	Community radio
Callsign meaning	2 Bankstown Community Radio

2BACR (ACMA callsign: 2BCR) is a community radio station broadcasting on 100.9FM from Bankstown, New South Wales.

History

As 2BCR

The Bankstown City Radio Co-operative was one of the first groups to receive a community radio broadcasting licence. Awarded the licence in 1983, the station began broadcasting as 2BCR from studios in a building at the former site of Georges Hall Public School in Birdwood Avenue, Georges Hall. Its programming included music and community interest programmes including weekend sports shows, youth-oriented request programmes, religious programming and for many years hosted a weekly police round-up. In the mid-1990s, the station had a media booth at Belmore Oval to enable live broadcasts of home games by the Bulldogs rugby league team. A mobile studio allowed the station to broadcast from local events. Brendan "Jonesy" Jones got his start at 2BCR, when it was at Georges hall, He famously got his fathers car bogged on the oval after his shift "Jazz beat". Jones now works on Breakfast radio as the Jonesy part of Jonesy and Amanda on WSFM.

In 1999 BFM moved to new permanent studios at 104 Cahors Road, Padstow. By the early 2000s, the station's focus had shifted to community language programming almost exclusively. On 21 June 2007 the Australian Communications and Media Authority announced that it would not be renewing BFM's community radio broadcasting licence when it expired in July.^[1] The reason stated was

Most of the licensee’s members are from communities outside of the licence area and a significant proportion of its programmes are directed at communities that are largely resident outside the licence area.

The station was then required to apply for a temporary licence to start from the day the previous licence expired. While successful in its application, BFM now shares its frequency with three other licensees. The current licence expired on January 1, 2010.

As a TCBL

Three operators shared the 100.9FM frequency between January 2010 and November 2011. They were BACR, a sub-group of the incumbent; Flame FM and BSACR.^[2]

On 15 November 2011, 2BACR was awarded the licence to broadcast a community radio service to Bankstown.

References

↑ "ACMA not to renew Bankstown community radio licence". ACMA. 2007-06-21. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
↑ "Temporary Community Broadcasting Licences" (PDF). ACMA. 2008-07-29. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 July 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-05.

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Coordinates: 33°57′00″S 151°01′49″E / 33.950067°S 151.030214°E / -33.950067; 151.030214

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