| City of license | Toodyay, Western Australia |
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| Broadcast area | Toodyay RA1 ([1]) |
| Branding | Jukebox Radio |
| Frequency | 105.3 MHz FM |
| First air date | December 3, 2010 |
| Format | General 50's to Today, Drama Plays, Comedy, Local Interest |
| Language | English |
| ERP | 1,000 watts |
| HAAT | 270 m[1] |
| Owner | Toodyay Community Radio Inc Assoc. |
| Website | Official website |
Jukebox Radio (6TJR) is the Callsign for Toodyay Community Radio. It is a community radio station broadcasting to Toodyay and the surrounding Wheatbelt area of Western Australia from studios in the suburb of Toodyay, Western Australia. Its format is general music from the 1950s onwards, drama plays, comedy series documentaries and children's interests.
Toodyay Community Radio was established in 2010 under the name Toodyay Community Radio Inc. Assoc. It is a volunteer run organisation and is listener funded.[2]
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Toodyay Community Radio has a comphrehensive schedule[3] and plays a mix of Rock and Roll, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's music, Disco and Club Classic music as well as many Drama plays, comedy series and documentaries. Part of its commitment to the community is supporting local music and the arts.[4]
Toodyay Community Radio has been very innovative in it's daytime and overnight programming. Being a community radio station, and therefore relying on volunteers, Toodyay didn't want to be prone to the same problems facing other community radio stations, where the availability of its volunteers and presenters can be unpredictable. Toodyay Community Radio took the bold step in turning itself over to its listeners during the day, and overnight, by allowing them to access part of the stations music library through the stations website, and to request the music that they wanted to hear.[5] This service differs greatly from request services offered by other radio stations, in that other stations allow you to email the station, and a request gets assigned to the next appropriate program. Toodyay's Jukebox Radio, allows the listener's request to enter into a queue to be played in order, just like a Jukebox. This marked a first for radio in Australia, as no other radio station, community or commercial gave it's listeners this much control over the music that was played.
Toodyay Community Radio is involved in many projects with the local community, but has very close ties with Toodyay District High School. In 2011, the Year 9 and 10 Drama students were involved in recording an updated version of the drama play 'Six From Borneo' that was originally broadcast on ABC radio in 1947. The play tells the story of over 2000 prisoners of war, held by the Japanese in Sandakan, North Borneo during World War II. The play, quite dramatically, tells the story of the Sandakan Death Marches that the prisoners were taken on, and how only six POW's survived by escaping. All six to escape were Australian Soldiers. The story is very poignant to Toodyay, as three brothers from the town were killed on these death marches. The play went into production in May 2011 and was recorded by Toodyay Community Radio, and is due to be broadcast in late 2011.