MAINfm 94.9 (call sign: 3WMA) is a community radio station which broadcasts on 94.9
MHz
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from its studios in Halford Street,
Castlemaine Castlemaine may mean:
* Castlemaine, Victoria, a town in Victoria, Australia
** Castlemaine Football Club, an Australian rules football club
** Castlemaine railway station
* Castlemaine, County Kerry, a town in Ireland
* Castlemaine Brewery, Western ...
in
Victoria
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* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
* Victoria, Seychelle ...
,
Australia
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.
MAINfm 94.9 holds a
Permanent Community Broadcasting Licence (PCBL). The station is also a full member of the
Community Broadcasting Association of Australia
The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) is the peak body and the national representative organisation for community radio and television stations in Australia. The CBAA provide leadership, advocacy and support for members to ac ...
(CBAA). Ian Braybrook and Marilyn Bennet started WMAfm (for Wireless Mount Alexander). WMAfm broadcast from studios at the
Old Castlemaine goal. MAINfm broadcasts a wide variety of music and talk/magazine style shows. All of the presenters are volunteers.
In 2014, the station changed its name from WMA FM to MAINfm. Shortly thereafter the station acquired a caravan that was converted into a remote broadcast studio for outside broadcasts from community events and sports matches. In late 2014 the station relocated its studios from the old gaol to the old hospital buildings in Halford Street.
In 2018, after receiving funding from the
Victorian state government
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, MAINfm employed a Station Manager. Following this, in 2019 they hired a Sponsorships & Fundraising Co-ordinator.
Each June the station holds The MAIN Game, an
Australian rules football
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match as a fundraiser.
In 2016 Main FM won the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia's most outstanding small station award and in 2018 won the best station fundraising campaign.
In 2020 MAINfm was awarded the CBAA's Most Outstanding Small Station Award and won the Best Fundraising Event for the 2020 Here Comes the Sun Radiothon.
References
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External links
official website
Radio stations in Victoria (state)