2 Oceans FM (also known as Augusta Community Radio) is a community radio station based in

Augusta, Western Australia Augusta is a town on the south-west coast of Western Australia, where the Blackwood River emerges into Flinders Bay. It is the nearest town to Cape Leeuwin, on the furthest southwest corner of the Australian continent. In the it had a populat ...

, south of Margaret River in the state's southwest. Transmitting from the Augusta Community Resource Centre in Allnutt Terrace, the station is run by volunteers from the Augusta community. Broadcasting on and sponsored by local businesses around the Augusta region, the station offers a variety of music, including songs from the 1940s and 1950s up to the current Top 40. On the station's website there is also an option to listen online through streaming over the internet.

History

The idea for the station came about due to frustration with the lack of local content on the very few radio stations broadcasting to the Augusta region. Attempts to acquire a frequency for the station to operate on began in 2002, but the

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(ACMA) specified that all the frequencies were being used by other local TV broadcasters. The founders of the station pushed on with support of local communities and, after initially requesting the frequency in 2007, the ACMA allocated for a community radio station in Augusta in April 2008. With the help of donations from Lotterywest, a local couple, and the South West Development Commission, 2 Oceans FM started broadcast in 2009.

References

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