Plenty Valley FM
City of license | Melbourne, Australia |
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Broadcast area | Northern suburbs of Melbourne |
Slogan | "Your Local Station" |
Frequency | 88.6 MHz FM |
First air date | 1987 |
Format | Music & Community |
Webcast | Browser Streaming |
Website | pvfm.com.au |
Plenty Valley FM 88.6 is a community radio station based in Melbourne, Australia. It is broadcast on 88.6 MHz FM. It began transmission in 1987.
It is licenced by the Australian Broadcasting Authority to broadcast within guidelines prescribed by the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia.
Plenty Valley FM's studios are based in the northern Melbourne suburb of Mill Park, and broadcasts to areas within the City of Banyule, City of Manningham, City of Whittlesea and the Shire of Nillumbik.
Current programs
Monday to Friday
- Workdays: From 10am to 2pm with Peter Marcato.
- Afternoons: From 2pm to 4pm, hosted by a different presenter for each day of the week.
- Drive: From 4pm to 6pm, hosted by a different presenter for each day of the week.
These programs will cover issues that arise in the local community, around the country and around the globe. These shows also feature sport, traffic, weather, community service announcements, and also play a wide variety of music.
International Programs
PVFM provides a wide range of international programs for local ethnic communities to listen to during the week. These programs are broadcast between 6pm and midnight, and are presented in foreign languages.
- Swarna FM (Sinhala) & Lak Mihira (Sinhala)
- The Romany Show (Romani)
- Vann Amutham (Tamil)
- Darol Salam (Arabic)
- Rhythm & News (Greek)
- Lebanese Show (Lebanese)
- Macedonian Show (Macedonian)
- Samoa E Tasi (Samoan)
- Jhankar (Fijian)
- The Punjabi Show (Punjabi)
- Pronto (Italian)
- Chinese from the North (Chinese)
Weekends
The weekends normally host a selection of specialised programs, many of which focus on specific music genres - such as rock music from the 60's to the current day on Lets Rock, 90's dance tracks on Saturday Funhouse/Funhouse Radio, an all Beatles show titled From Us To You, nostalgic top 40 tracks from past decades on Those Were The Days, 60's retro classics on Wired For Sound, and blues & roots on The Whipping Post. There is also an Indigenous Australian program called Deadly Sounds which airs at 10am on a Sunday. These shows normally alternate between Saturday and Sunday for summer and winter.
The Heat Is On is one of PVFM's longer running variety weekend programs, and is broadcast on a Saturday night at 6pm hosted by Rob Puglielli.
Saturday
Saturday is traditionally Plenty Valley FM's sports day, with a number of programs throughout the day covering a variety of sports from local to international level. During the winter months, programs include The Modern Sports Show, Winners Aplenty Big Sports Breakfast Show, Behind The Wheel and Boys Are Back In Town. Throughout the summer, the NMCA and DVCA Cricket Shows feature in the morning, with Not The Plenty Valley FM Sports Show and Sports Addiction following up in the late morning and early afternoon.
Sunday
Sunday usually features lifestyle and pop culture programs, such as Valley Lifestyles which covers local events, gardening, and food & wine. Other programs include the Christianity show God's Not Dead, the movie review and news program The Reel Thing, and Almost Famous which seeks to unearth new, young Australian musicians.
Overnight Music
At midnight and weekday mornings, 88.6 Plenty Valley FM broadcasts it's real music variety, Plenty Valley FM Overnight and Mornings, during the day and overnight.
Northern Football League
Plenty Valley FM broadcasts the Northern Football League Match of the Day each Saturday during the winter football season from 1pm through until 5pm. The broadcast leads in with an hour-long preview show covering the days upcoming fixtures across all three senior divisions of the NFL, before the commentary team commence the broadcast for the chosen match of that weekend.
The commentary team provide 'Around the Ground' score updates throughout the afternoon to keep the listeners up to date with other concurrent matches, similar to BBC Radio 5 Live's broadcasts of the English Premier League.
The NFL Match of the Day broadcasts are one of PVFM's biggest listener drawcards, attracting large audiences through the winter months given it is the sole radio station to cover the NFL (the northern suburbs largest football league).
See also
- List of Australian radio stations
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