[net-gold] Western Australia's Oldest Indigenous Radio Station Faces an Uncertain Future
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- Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 06:52:41 -0500 (EST)
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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 21:50:15 -0700 (MST)
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Western Australia's Oldest Indigenous Radio Station Faces an
Uncertain Future
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Western Australia's Oldest Indigenous Radio Station
Faces an Uncertain Future
6WR Waringarri Radio 693AM -
The Voice of the East Kimberley, Western Australia
<http://ow.ly/14UkU>
Waringarri Radio 6WR broadcasts
the latest music, news, weather and
community information over a 300km
radius in the remote East Kimberley
region of Far North Western Australia.
Our powerful coverage includes
Kununurra, Wyndham, Warmun, Oombulgurri,
El Questro, Argyle Mine and Timber Creek.
RT @Northern_Clips: 6WR Waringarri
Radio oldest Aboriginal-owned
community radio station
<http://ow.ly/14UgO>
in Western #Australia
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The Voice of the East Kimberley now
faces an uncertain future.
A lightning storm recently knocked out
one of the four modules on the
5-kilowatt transmitter of Kununurra's
6WR Waringarri Radio in Western
Australia's northern Kimberley region.
But it didn't faze the station's
manager Colin Cameron, a jack of all
trades in the radio business, who
walked the 500m down the road to fix it
himself.
The storm was not enough to take
"The Voice of the East Kimberley",
Western Australia's oldest indigenous
radio station, off the air. But it
brought back memories for Mr Cameron,
73, of when the station's board had
called him in February 2002 when
lighting had taken out the transmitter
completely and 6WR had been off the
air for 47 days.
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The veteran radio broadcaster, manager
and station owner quickly got the
station up and running again and the
board soon asked him if he would like
to stay permanently.
"The station was in survival mode when
I arrived, it needed tender loving
care," Mr Cameron said. More than
eight years later and with the help of
dedicated presenters and local volunteers,
6WR continues to broadcast to towns and
remote communities in a 300km radius
around Kununurra, including
Oombulgurri to the northwest,
El Questro station to the south, and over
the border to Timber Creek in the
Northern Territory.
There are also FM translators at the
Argyle mine, Wyndham, Warmun and
Kalumburu.
Established in 1987, 6WR was the
first Aboriginal-owned community radio
station in the Kimberley and continues
to be the only station with its
studios and administration in Kununurra.
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