Plenty Valley FM
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| Broadcast area | Outer Northern Eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia |
| Frequency | 88.6 MHz FM |
| Branding | "Proudly Serving Melbourne's Outer North East" "Your Local Station" |
| Programming | |
| Format | Music, News, Sport, Multicultural |
| History | |
First air date | 1987 (Test Broadcasts) 1990 (Full Licence) |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | ACMA |
| Links | |
Public licence information | Profile |
| Website | pvfm Listen live (via TuneIn) |
Plenty Valley FM 88.6 is a community radio station based in Melbourne, Australia. It is broadcast on 88.6 MHz FM. It began transmission in 1987, with support from the Shire of Diamond Valley, conducting a series of test broadcasts at the Greensborough Plaza shopping centre.
It was provided a full-time broadcast licence in 1990 by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (formerly the Australian Broadcasting Authority to broadcast within guidelines prescribed by the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia.
Plenty Valley FM's studios are based in the northern Melbourne suburb of Mill Park, within the City of Whittlesea and broadcasts to the Shire of Nillumbik and the northern section of the Banyule City Council. It encompasses the Federal Government electorates of Scullin, McEwen and Jagajaga, as well as the Victorian Government electoral districts of Mill Park, Bundoora, Yan Yean and Thomastown. The broadcast area we are licenced to cover has an estimated residential population of approximately 445,000 people. The station can be heard across Greater Melbourne and also worldwide through live streaming.
As a community / public radio station, Plenty Valley FM relies heavily on the generousity of memberships, business support, philathropic support and through securing grants by application to the Community Broadcasting Foundation, the independent funding arm of the Australian Federal Government Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications.
Specialist Music
Presenters are volunteers and bring with them their own on air style, personality and specialist music libraries to inform and entertain. Music genres the station plays include Classic Rock, Pop Music, Retro, New Wave Music, Adult Contemporary, Jazz, Ska and Rocksteady.
Multicultural Programs
Plenty Valley FM seeks to connect with many culturally and linguistically diverse groups in its main broadcast area and provides shows in Romani Language, Punjabi, Sinhala language, Tamil language, Lebanese, Macedonian language, Palestinian, Fijian Hindi and Samoan language. The shows are also members with the National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters' Council, community radio's representative body for multicultural broadcasting.
Local Sport
Plenty Valley FM has a long standing relationship with a number of seasonal local sports and always looks for opportunities to cover both mainstream and lesser known sports.
Northern Football Netball League
Plenty Valley FM broadcasts the Northern Football League (NFNL) Match of the Day each Saturday during the winter football season from 1 pm to 5 pm. The program kicks off with a one-hour preview of the day's upcoming fixtures across all three senior divisions of the NFNL, after which the award-winning commentary team presents a live broadcast of the weekend's selected feature match that includes score updates throughout the afternoon from the other competitions on the day.
North Metro Cricket Association
Formerly the Jika Cricket Association, Plenty Valley FM covers the season weekly and in recent years has provided live coverage of the senior finals usually held in March each year.
NBL1 and Big V Basketball
The station has regular coverage of the Whittlesea City Basketball Association, Eltham Wildcats Basketball Association, Diamond Valley Basketball Association and RMIT basketball who field teams in the NBL1 and Basketball Victoria competitions.
Diamond Valley Roller Derby
Plenty Valley FM recently secured the Diamond Valley Roller Derby Club as a Group member.
Community
As a public broadcaster, Plenty Valley FM takes its role in community engagement seriously. The station has a number of community groups in its memebership that represent a cross-section of the areas it services. It also has a regular Lifestyle show, a News Hour and recently a Community Hour to give groups a voice to help them recruit members and promote upcoming events. This community connections are in keeping with our station's charter.
Awards and Recognition
Part of the reason Plenty Valley FM received community support was to apply for a 'C' Class licence to support broadcasting during emergencies. The station's geographic service area covers the area of Plenty Gorge Parklands area surrounding the Plenty River which is one of Victoria's highest prone bushfire regions. In the wake of the Black Saturday Bushfires, Emergency Management Victoria was established in 2010. In 2020, Plenty Valley FM was recognised for its 10-year partnership with EMV. As a designated emergency broadcaster, the station suspends normal programming in the event of an emergency situation requiring the community's urgent attention, in consultation with the Victorian State Incident Control Centre and Authorised Government agencies. The station has also been recognised by the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia for its commitment to providing radio Training programs to the wider community, and won the 2018 Excellence in Training award from the CBAA.
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