It’s NAIDOC WEEK July 3-10. NIGHTSHIFT (Weeknights 6pm til Late) is celebrating Indigenous Music & Cutlure by playing a truckload of Indigenous artists, including Montaigne, Thelma Plum, Briggs and MANY more all across weeknights. Also your favourite shows including BRL & Tuesday Nightshift, will be chatting with Indigenous artists across the week. …
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SIGN THE PETITION – CLICK HERE KEEP THE COMMUNITY IN YOUR RADIO PETITION UPDATE: The Labor Party has announced that they would restore community radio funding if elected. The Australian Greens have committed to restoring funding. We’re still calling on the Coalition Government maintain funding to keep community radio stations …
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Ian & Frank from Caledonian Connections took the station (with our trusty Technical Team) down to Station Sponsor The House of Tartan. The show went off without a hitch, Big thanks go to our great sponsor The House Of …
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Western Australia’s Largest Regional Agricultural Show Adding another very successful outside broadcast to the long list thus far, The 2015 Wanneroo Agricultural show was a great event and 89.7FM had a great time! A BIG thank you to all our volunteers – without you this wouldn’t have happened! …
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89.7FM will be broadcasting Live from the Bushfire awareness Community Fun Day at Ridgewood park in Merriwa. Time: Sunday 18th 10am till 2pm Entry: FREE The event, in partnership with the City of Wanneroo and the volunteer brigade, will promote bushfire survival plans and educate the community on alerts and …
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THEY DID IT AGAIN! A massive congratulations to Grace, Dan, Kane & Tim for being nominated in the CBAA Awards of 2015 for Contribution to Australian Music. It was a massive year for L&L, as they put on their first live gig …
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We had an amazing year on 89.7fm. Another CBAA Award Nomination (Contribution to Australian Music – Live & Local 897) which was Live & Local’s 2nd year in a row for a nod from Community Radio overseeing body, a fantastic achievement, congratulations to Grace Borrello and her team once again. …
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John Logan and the team from Movers & Shakers (Wednesdays from Midday) took the show on the road and recruited children from 5 schools to host this very special broadcast from Greenwood Primary, July 29th. This was a fun and excellent show; organised by John Logan and engineered by Michael Stokes …
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We know it’s always going to be a great morning when we are invited to broadcast live from the City of Joondalup’s library, great friends and sponsors of 897FM. The of 5th August outdoor broadcast proved to be another successful morning with loads of guests including MP’s Liz Bejhat and Jan Norberger, our local …
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They’re trim, taut and terrific, and the exciting future of the Kingsley Amateur Football Club. Colts coach Mike Cockburn and community radio 89.7fm’s John Logan recently welcomed last year’s premiership-winning 17s from the juniors competition to the KAFC. To mark the arrival of the colts recruits, training singlets, with KAFC …
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