FBi Radio
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| City of license | Sydney |
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| Frequency | 94.5 FM |
| Format | no set playlist |
| ERP | 10 Kw |
| Class | Community |
| Affiliations | CBAA |
| Owner | Free Broadcast inc |
| Website | http://www.fbiradio.com/ |
FBi Radio is an independent, community radio station in Sydney, Australia. FBi places a heavy emphasis on local alternative music: it has a policy that at least 50 per cent of its music content is to be Australian, of which at least half comes from Sydney musicians.
After making a series of short-term broadcasts over some ten years, FBi Radio was granted a permanent licence by the Australian Broadcasting Authority in 2002. A failed takeover attempt by one of the losing bidders for the permanent licence, Wild FM (a more commercially-oriented dance music station) pushed FBi's full-time 24/7 broadcast to August 2003.
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FBi is now recognised as Sydney's only independent youth radio station, broadcasting across the city basin on 94.5FM with a signal strength as large as their commercial rivals - reaching Gosford, Blue Mountains and Wollongong. Its broadcasters have included Kid Kenobi, Mark Dynamix (both voted as No.1 & 2 Best DJ in Australia in a National Poll); Deepchild and Pimmon (aka Paul Gough), two of Australia's foremost electronic producers and film-critics Jamie Leonarder and Marc Fennell from the SBS Movie Show, television comedian and filmaker Dan Ilic.
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The studios of FBi are located in Botany Rd., Alexandria, in the same building as the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia.
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Full Power FM: 2MAC 91.3 | 2MFM 92.1 | 2ABC 92.9| 2LND 93.7 | 2FBI 94.5 | 2PTV 95.3| Edge 96.1| Nova 96.9 | 2SBS 97.7 | 2TFM 98.5 | 2WS 101.7/99.1/88.3 | 2MBS 102.5 | 2CBA 103.2 | 2DAY 104.1 | 2MMM 104.9 | 2JJJ 105.7 | MIX 106.5 | 2SER 107.3
Community FM: 2RDJ 88.1(Burwood) | 2RRR 88.5(Ryde) | 2RSR 88.9(Inner Sydney) | 2BLU 89.1(Katoomba) | 2GLF 89.3(Liverpool) | 2WCR 89.7(Waverly) | 2VTR 89.9(Hawkesbury) | 2NBC 90.1(Narwee) | 2MWM 88.7/90.3(Manly) | 2CCR 90.5(Cumberland) | 2NSB 99.3 (North Shore)| 2SSR 99.7(Sutherland) | 2SWR 99.9 (Blacktown) | 2HHH 100.1(Hornsby) | 2MCR 100.3(Campbelltown) | 2WOW 100.7(Penrith) | 2BFM 100.9(Bankstown)
Narrowcast FM: Kick 87.6 (Penrith) | Radio Austral 87.6/87.8 | Cool Country Radio 88.0/88.7 (Glenbrook, Katoomba, Mt Razorback) | Bondi FM 88 | Raw FM (Nthn Beaches)
