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Operations consultant Michael Monk, who has been training 4UM staff recently on new software, with announcers Chrissy Bond,\u00a0Rory Boney and Harold “Big Chance” Chapman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

December 13, 2012 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

A phone call this week has brought some good news for Cherbourg radio station 4UM – Us Mob … after broadcasting for 14 years (or even longer if earlier trials are counted), the station has been granted a permanent broadcasting licence.<\/p>\n

“We received a call from the Australian Communications and Media Authority who said we have been allocated a long-term licence,” station manager Jeanette Brown told southburnett.com.au.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeanette said the station originally started on a narrowcast licence but then was upgraded to a Temporary Community Broadcast Licence (TCBL).<\/p>\n

About 12 months ago, ACMA put out expressions of interest for TCBL holders to upgrade to permanent licences; 4UM applied at the end of November and the decision came back almost immediately.<\/p>\n

Jeanette said the permanent licence would allow the station to make long-term plans and maybe even apply down the track to increase its power output to make its signal accessible to a greater area.<\/p>\n

The new licence is expected to come into effect in June.<\/p>\n

Radio 4UM has three full-time announcers and also takes feeds from the National Indigenous Radio Service.<\/p>\n

Operations consultant Michael Monk, who has been training 4UM staff on new software, said he believed another long-term aim of the station was to increase local content, including perhaps outside broadcasts.<\/p>\n

Radio in Cherbourg has a long history. During the early 1990s, broadcasts were trialled from Cherbourg’s old courthouse building.<\/p>\n

Then broadcasts were made from a former ABC broadcast van using various temporary callsigns.<\/p>\n

In 1998, the name “Us Mob” was registered with ACMA and a temporary narrowcast licence was granted for radio broadcasts on 87.8FM. \u00a0The TCBL was granted in 2007 and the broadcast frequency was changed to the current frequency, 94.1FM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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