6EBA (95.3
FM) is a multicultural broadcast
radio station
Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...
in
Perth
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, Western Australia. It is Perth's only full-time, community owned and operated multilingual radio station, which began broadcasting from its first studio in View Street,
North Perth in 1990.
[Thompson, Chris.(2007) Help to tune into Perth. Maylands based multicultural broadcaster 6EBS-FM has launched a new radio programme for migrants and refugees called Building Bridges in partnership with the Metropolitan Migrant Resource Centre. ''Perth voice'', 20 Oct. 2007, p. 9,]
Hosting 82 different languages, 6EBA's programming includes contributions from new and emerging communities to the older established ethnic communities such as Greek, Italian, Arabic and Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian languages. These programs serve to keep ethnic communities in touch with what is happening at a local, national and international level.
6EBA now has 2 studios, one situated in Fitzgerald Street, North Perth and the other in Maylands.
Notes
External links
6EBA Official Website
Radio stations in Perth, Western Australia
Community radio stations in Australia
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