Twin Cities FM

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Twin Cities FM
Broadcast area City of Joondalup & City of Wanneroo
Slogan The People The Music
Frequency 89.7 MHz FM
First air date 2001
Format Community interest
ERP 500 W
Owner {{{owner}}}
Website http://www.twincitiesfm.com.au

Twin Cities FM (call sign: 6TCR) is a community radio station, broadcasting in Perth, Western Australia. Their studios are presently located in the City of Wanneroo Works Depot in Ashby.

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[edit] History

89.7 commenced broadcasting on the 16th of November 2001, it was granted a permanent community broadcasting licence in 2002. As with many community based radio stations in Australia, Twin Cities FM plays a wide range of music, and supports local WA artists. Twin Cities FM regularly broadcasts from local events in the Wanneroo/Joondalup region. The station is member managed and offers a subscription program to encourage members from the local communities served by the station to offer financial support and to be part of the decision making processes, by election t various committees and boards.

[edit] Membership

This station, as with around 95% of Australia's community radio stations is a member of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia.

[edit] Weekday Shows

  • 6.am - 9am - Breakfast Show: Various announcers, Monday to Friday.
  • 9am - 12pm - Morning Show: Various Presenters,Local current affairs.
  • 12pm - 3pm - Afternoon Show: Various presenters, Local issues,current events.
  • 3pm - 6pm - Drive: Various announcers Music,news and traffic reports.
  • 6pm - 12am - Nightshift: The best in nighttime radio.

[edit] Transmission

89.7 FM Broadcasts from a nominal site in High Road, Wanneroo sharing transmission facilities with 6IX's FM signal. It's ERP is 500W which covers the Northern suburbs of Perth, however the station has just been approved of a transmission increase to 1KW which should make it clearer across the whole North and parts of the South. Meanwhile Twin Cities FM can be heard as far south as Fremantle and east to Kalamunda. During an inversion it has been reported to be heard from as far north as Jurien Bay from a moving car.

[edit] Programmes

  • Eonian's BIG Breakfast with Eonian. (feat. Ryan Hadji)
  • The Goat with BJ & Azmo
  • The Eclectic Boogaloo
  • Tuesday Nitro
  • Western Oz
  • The RT Show
  • The Hump
  • TNT
  • Anarchy On Air
  • Kick Start
  • Friday Nights
  • Talking Sports
  • WAAFL Show
  • No Holds Barred
  • Geoff's Chat Show
  • Mainly Sax
  • Not another Teen Show
  • The Saturday Night shift with GT
  • The Bust Out
  • Concert Hall
  • Revival
  • Euro Gold
  • Caledonian Connection
  • Way out West
  • Deadly Sounds
  • Real Gold
  • Top Shelf Music
  • The Laughing Lounge
  • Play the Blues
  • Soultime

[edit] External links

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