Saturday the 14th August in the Community house carpark we are having a Garage Sale, Boot Sale & Sausage Sizzle from 10 am till 4pm.

We have lots of records and Cds for sale.

Bring your car along, pay $20 for a spot and you can sell all your old stuff (and you keep the money) or you can donate it to us and we will sell it for our fund raising to go on FM.

There is also a sausage sizzle.

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

In Taranaki, a brand new access radio is starting on 104.4 FM.

So if you are visiting Taranaki be sure to check them out. This brings the total up to 12 Access stations in New Zealand. Welcome to Access Radio.

Louise has just completed a brand new edition of the Hearsay Magazine. Visit the Hearsay Page link to the right of this message.
Congrats Louise.

Dear Society members,

The Executive Committee of the Otago Broadcaster’s Society wishes to notify you of a Special General Meeting (SGM) to be held on Thursday July 29th in the Alexander Macmillan room Community house between 5.30 and 8pm. Generally this meeting will provide an excellent opportunity to discuss the Trust and Societies joint vision in protecting and nurturing the valuable community asset and Dunedin institution that is Toroa Radio.

Specifically the meeting has been requested by a letter signed by 6 society members concerned about recent events at Toroa radio. This letter requests four points be put forward for discussion at the SGM:

1) The future direction of Toroa Station and the role of the Society to protect this community asset and the philosophy of Community Access Radio;

2) The role of the Society Reps on the Trust Board;

3) To provide an opportunity for the Society Members to elect the Society Reps;

4) The ability for the Society to employ as was in the Constitution prior to 2000;

Each of the four points will be discussed at the meeting in a forum facilitated by an independent mediator; this part of the evening is scheduled between 7 and 8pm.

Prior to discussion we welcome you to a pot luck meal between 5.30 and 7pm for a ‘get together’ of people with a shared passion for Toroa and Community Access radio.

‘Toroa Radio, Real people, Real Music, Real Radio’.

Kind regards,

Louise Booth

Chair (Otago Broadcaster’s Society)

Thanks to all the great Society Committee members who came and helped with the sausage sizzle at the Maclaggan Street Warehouse on Sunday (28/06/10). Particular thanks to Louise and Rita, who were there the whole time!

If you’re one of the people who came along, ate sausages and signed up for a free show, hang in there – you should find out if you’re the lucky winner some time in the next week or so!

Finally, if you’re feeling depressed because you missed out on your alloted sausage, don’t worry. The Society will be having another sausage sizzle in July – this time outside the central city Countdown. So, you’ve still got plenty of time to come and enjoy fundraising sausages while supporting Community Access radio…

We’re going to be at the Maclaggan Street Warehouse (that’s the one that used to be the only one in town – not the one out in South D) doing a fundraising sausage sizzle this Sunday (the 27th of June) from 11am-3pm.

Why not drop by and say hello? Mebbe get yourself a delicious Community Access Radio fundraising sausage?

The concert on May 24th was a great success, abysmal weather notwithstanding.

This is thanks entirely to our wonderful volunteers who ran the kitchen, took money at the door, moved the chairs around and helped us pack the sound gear in and out. Thanks also to the artists who gave their time and energy freely to make the show a success.

Please consider supporting them by following the links below and checking them out:

• King Leo
• Delgirl
• The Standing Spirits
• Baba Yaga
• Martha Hill and the Mineshafts

…as well as  the guys from Artsenta, Moana House and the Dunedin College of Education Childrens’ Choir.

A final HUGE thanks to Strawberry Sound, who gave us a great deal on the sound gear, and managed the nearly impossible by setting up the whole thing in just under an hour.

You guys rock – thanks a bunch.

Our Variety Concert is in exactly one week as I write this! That means you’ve only got a week to get your special members’-price OCBS tickets. People who show up to the gig on the day will need to pay full price. Not that that’s a huge problem, as it’s only $10 for a great selection of Dunedin bands – but you may as well get the cheaper ticket if you can, right?

Variety Concert - 7.30pm, 24th May, Burns Hall

May is, as you probably know, New Zealand Music Month and we here at Toroa Radio are doing our bit!

We’ve lined up a great selection of really diverse and interesting acts, and we hope you’ll join us and the Otago Community Broadcasters’ Society at 7.30 on the 24th of May to enjoy the result. The concert’s at Burns Hall, which is in the grounds of First Church and costs $5 for OCBS members and $10 for non-members. A bargain, when you check out the line-up:

• King Leo
• Delgirl
• The Standing Spirits
• Baba Yaga

…and much more – Monday nights should always be like this!

On another note – have you taken our short survey yet?

Here at Toroa Radio, we’re often asked who our listeners are and how many of them we have. As an Access station, this is a hard question to answer – we don’t generally approach making radio from the  same demographic-focussed position as commercial stations, so numbers are harder to count.

However, we’re put together a survey using Surveymonkey, and we’d like you to give it a shot. There’s only 10 questions, so it shouldn’t take long – and it’d be a great help to us.

Click here to give it a shot.