Radio Adelaide

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Radio Adelaide is Australia's first community radio station; established by Adelaide University in 1972. It broadcasts from street front studios on North Terrace, Adelaide. The signal reaches across the Adelaide metropolitan area to the Mid North, the Yorke Peninsula and Fleurieu Peninsula, the southern Barossa, Kangaroo Island, Riverland and parts of the Eyre Peninsula broadcasting at 13 kilowatts on 101.5 MHz FM. The transmitter power was only 7 kW until an upgrade on November 2, 2006.

Radio Adelaide is a Registered Training Organisation providing nationally accredited training and in 1999 won Adult Learning Australia's Outstanding Training Provider of the Year Award. Radio Adelaide has audio production facilities available including recording, mastering, duplication, online audio, digital transfer, message on hold, equipment hire and expert technical advice.

Radio Adelaide was formerly known as 5UV, denoting its links to the University of Adelaide, the university where the radio station was originally located and started. Whilst Radio Adelaide is technically still owned by the University of Adelaide it is highly autonomous. The station is run by over five hundred volunteer station workers as well as a small amount of paid staff.

Because Radio Adelaide is a community radio station, many different program styles are prevalent, including comedy, music, etc. Because of this, Radio Adelaide uses strip programming to ensure some consistency and coherency. Programs on Radio Adelaide are provided by volunteers and also by access groups who pay for on air time. The largest purchaser of access time is "Student Radio" a collection of Radio Programs provided by University students from the University of Adelaide, Flinders University and the University of South Australia. After the introduction of Voluntary Student Unionism the hours which Student Radio broadcasts have been reduced.

[edit] Flinders University Student Radio

FUSR stood for Flinders University Student Radio. FUSR was a 3-hour timeslot on Radio Adelaide 101.5 FM.

After originally starting out in 1997, the implications of Voluntary Student Unionism (and other Brendan Nelson reforms on the university system) ended up putting the final nail in the coffin of FUSR – an organisation that was funded purely through the student services fee at Flinders University.

FUSR was produced in a number of formats: comedy, variety, punk, metal, talkback, political discussion, sports, and even radio plays. All shows were solely hosted by students from Flinders University.

Programmes by FUSR included Stiffen Starchy, Purple Monkey Dishwasher, Gasmeter Files, Radio Playtime, The Late Show, The View, The Role Playing Hour, Preacher Men, The Angry Hour, The Discussion Smorgasbord, Black Market Radio, The Live Bands Show, The Power Team, Turn the Page, Wednesday Night Live, The Dave Harry Variety Show, The Green Room, Freeman, Snap, Crackle, Pop, The Golden Shower Half-Hour, Van Heerde Farty Liaison, and Killing Time.

FUSR also featured many celebrity interviews throughout its 10-year history, culminating in big interviews in 2006 with the likes of Shaun Micallef, Tony Martin, Santo Cilauro, Mick Molloy, Hamish Blake, Julian Morrow, Merrick Watts, and HG Nelson. These interviews are still available to download from the FUSR website at www.fusr.org. [1]

In 2006, FUSR was split up into 8 seasons. Each season was 5 weeks long, and was made up of 6 different shows. Each show was 30 minutes in duration.

The season dates for 2006 were as follows: