Feature

Issue No. 37 - October/November 2007

Coast makes radio waves

Community radio station 88.7 Coast FM has been on the air for 22 years and claims an audience of about 50,000 in southern Adelaide.

The station formed when Kingston College of TAFE - now Onkaparinga - set up a community radio station on campus.

Registered as Southern and Western Broadcasters with the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal and operating as SKY-FM, the station held a successful trial in June 1986.

Producing shows as part of a TAFE course and scraping together donated equipment, the station broadcast through Radio 5UV from August 1987, then 5EBI in 1989.

Under the name Coast FM, full-time broadcasts began on 88.5MHz in 1992. In 2002 the frequency was changed to 88.7MHz and the studio is in the Naldera building at Glandore Community Centre. All 100 staff are volunteers.

“Most local businesses are keen to be part of Adelaide’s Coast FM as it provides them with a low-cost medium to get their message across to thousands of listeners,” sa...

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