91.3 SportFM (ACMA callsign: 6WSM) is an Australian

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-formatted

community radio Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting. Community stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popular ...

station in Western Australia. Established in 2003, the station broadcasts in the , from studios in Hamilton Hill alongside

Radio Fremantle Radio Fremantle (ACMA callsign: 6CCR) is an Australian community radio station in Western Australia. Established in 1987, the station broadcasts to the City of Fremantle The City of Fremantle is a local government area in the south of Perth ...

History

The station first began test broadcasts in 2003, under a Temporary Community Broadcasting Licence timeshared with Capital Radio, now Capital 101.7FM. Following the allocation of the 90.5FM frequency to Capital, and another licence to

Noongar Radio Noongar Radio 100.9 FM is an Aboriginal community radio station in Perth, Western Australia. The station is the only Indigenous radio station in the Perth metropolitan region and promotes itself as a voice to the local Indigenous community, th ...

on 100.9FM, the station ceased transmission. Following further test transmissions on 101.7 FM, the station secured a full-time community licence for the

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RA1 area, also served by

. The station launched at 12:00 am on 2 February 2010.

Licence breaches

As a temporary broadcaster, the

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found it breached the

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by "broadcasting advertisements" and by "exceeding the hourly sponsorship limit of five minutes" in a broadcast of ''The Run Home'' sourced from

1116 SEN 1116 SEN (call sign 3AK) is an Australian radio station in Victoria. Owned and operated by Pacific Star Network, it broadcasts a sports radio format from Lower Plenty to Greater Melbourne. First broadcast on 29 November 1931 as 3AK, the sta ...

. The programme is no longer carried on the station.

Programming

Weekday programming includes a live Breakfast programme, A live mid-morning show and a live drive-time afternoon programme. Live heritage specialty programmes run of a weekday evening and across weekends including WAFL World, The SMCA Cricket Show, The Football Fix, Before the Footy, Wednesday Wheels, Track and Field tonight, The AFLWrap, Talking Horses, Pure Footy, The Gloves are off and many more. Station schedule includes regular live coverage of the

West Australian Football League The West Australian Football League (WAFL) is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The league currently consists of ten teams, which play each other in a 20-round season usually lasting from March to September, ...

National Rugby League The National Rugby League (NRL) is an Australasian rugby league club competition which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand. The NRL formed in 1998 as a joint partnership ...

Sheffield Shield The Sheffield Shield (currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Marsh Sheffield Shield) is the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. The tournament is contested between teams from the six states of Australia. Sheffield Shi ...

Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

and

A-League A-League Men (known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons) is the highest-level professional men's soccer league in Australia and New Zealand. At the top of the Australian league system, it is the country's premier men's competiti ...

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

combined with a diverse range of daily Sports Talk programs, and hourly news updates sourced from ''Australian Independent Radio News'' each weekday between 6am and 6pm. Sport FM also takes selected syndicated content from RSN 927 in Melbourne and

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in Sydney.

Presenters

Sport FM is a known breeding ground for young broadcasting talent producing many broadcasters and media professionals who have gone on to forge successful careers in the sports and media industry. Notable Presenters both past and present have included Colin Minson, Glenn Mitchell,

Kim Hughes Kimberley John Hughes (born 26 January 1954) is a former cricketer who played for Western Australia, Natal and Australia. He captained Australia in 28 Test matches between 1979 and 1984 before captaining a rebel Australian team in a tour of ...

, Wayne Clark, Peter Vlahos, John Townsend, Corbin Middlemas, Ben Cameron, Brett Sprigg, Adam McGrath, Emma Payne, Jacob Landsmeer, Ashleigh Nelson, Kris Klifunis, Bryce Parker, Shayne Hope, Blayne Treadgold and Matt Grubelich amongst many others. Sport FM regularly features various sports and media professionals including current and past players, coaches and administrators from various clubs and codes both locally, interstate and overseas.

References

External links

91.3 SportFM website
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