Community station 2ser 107.3, is switching to an all female format for International Women’s Day on Monday.

2ser 107.3 will celebrate the day by going all female from 6am to 9pm.

The special broadcast continues a 2ser tradition which has been underway for more than a decade.

The 15 hour special will cover a wide range of womenʼs issues and concerns, from international affairs to local arts and music.

The Broadcast will also feature a live interview with comedian Judith Lucy as well as a special edition of the prisoners program Jailbreak and a one hour special featuring women’s jazz and poetry.

There will also be a Radio Atticus feature on women and the law, several music programs with all female independent artists and local band Miss Little performing live in the 2ser studio.

Source: http://www.radioinfo.com.au

The station – known throughout this time as a crucial hub for exposing diverse and new music, widescreen culture and independent reporting – is throwing more than 20 parties around Sydney between October 1 and November 1, 2009. With the help of music acts from home and beyond, these parties represent the breadth of the station’s broadcasting, as well as its impact and influence on the cultural fabric of Sydney.

Over 70 artists are performing for 2ser 107.3 with a big birthday cheer including Astronomy Class, Front End Loader, Smudge, Tiny Vipers (USA), Jack Ladder, Meem, Belles Will Ring, Luluc, Naked On The Vague, pimmon, Peabody, The Maple Trail, The Paper Scissors, Deep Sea Arcade, The Middle East, The Laurels, Talons and many more.

Cutting edge monthly club nights Void, Headroom and Space is the Place are teaming up for a 2ser birthday bash on October 16, and iconic club night Frigid returns for one massive party over 3 floors of The Hopetoun Hotel on November 1, with special guest Mark Pritchard (Warp Records) and a live performance by Pivot’s Laurenz Pike.

Full event details can be found at www.2ser.com/30. Come join them in the celebrations!

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(L to R: Jason Allen (SYN TV Executive Producer), Jack Post, Alex Ford and Adrian McMahon (SYN FM Programming Manager and former Producer of the Jack & Fordy Show)

Radio is undergoing a seismic shift, similar to that of the late 1970’s.   Then, change was precipitated by youth disenchantment with the dominant Rock-FM format and the emergence of Punk music.  There was an explosion of independent new stations, including 3RRR in Melbourne, 2JJ (which became JJJ) in Sydney and 4ZZZ in Brisbane.   Together with 3D (Adelaide), 2SER (Sydney) and 6RTRFM (Perth), these strong stations have evolved from wild child to icon, in their 20+ years of existence.

The cycle is repeating now, driven partly by the worldwide dance music phenomenon, and partly by the desire of younger audiences to take charge of the airwaves one again.  To create original content and to write the playlist.

Community radio is the ideal home for young, would-be-broadcasters.  Like the internet – another young medium – community radio encourages personal access, independence and communities of interest.  Unlike the internet, these new stations have powerful FM transmitters offering broadcast coverage of the entire metropolitan area.  In the case of Sydney’s Fbi, the signal is clearly heard from the Blue Mountains to Wollongong.

While relatively new, these stations are by no means rough.  Professional production standards, excellent programming, fully interactive websites, talkback/chat, outside broadcasts and events are all vital ways in which the stations interact with audiences and the broader community.

Hobart’s newcomer Edge Radio took out Radio Station Of The Year award at the Community Broadcasting Association’s national conference in December 2003.

In Melbourne, Jack Post and Alex Ford (Jack and Fordy) are the famously young hosts of the Friday show for SYN TV.  The pair recently won Community TVs Antenna Award for best male presenters. SYN TV’s innovative show is broadcast 4-5pm daily in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, and simulcast on SYN FM in Melbourne.  The cross-platform broadcast on TV and Radio is the only one of its kind in Australia and Jack Post and Alex Ford (Jack and Fordy) seem certain to follow Channel 31s most famous son – Rove McManus, to success.

The talent and innovation coming from the new wave of community youth broadcasters will be a major influence on the radio industry in the next few years.