3PBS 106.7FM (Progressive Broadcasting Service) is a community radio station in Melbourne, Australia, that broadcasts on the frequency 106.7 FM. Community radio is a type of radio service that caters to the interests of a certain area, broadcasting material that is popular to a local audience but is overlooked by more powerful broadcast groups. ... Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia, with a population of 3,600,650 in the Melbourne metropolitan area (June 2004) and 61,670 in the City of Melbourne (which covers only the central city area). ...
In August 1978 the station was successful in its application to the Australian Broadcasting Authority for a licence, and subsequently began a series of short broadcasts from temporary studios. The fledgling station started to make regular broadcasts to inner Melbourne in the early 1980s between 9am and 4pm from its studios at the Prince of Wales Hotel. The Australian Broadcasting Authority (commonly called the ABA in Australia) is an agency of the Australian federal government, responsible for regulating the television, radio, and Internet industries. ...
In 1985 it moved into its permanent studio of 15 years in St Kilda, from where it started to broadcast 24 hours a day to greater Melbourne in 1987. In November 2001 the station moved again, this time to Collingwood. Alternate use: Saint Kilda, island in Scotland. ... Collingwood is an inner city suburb in Melbourne, Australia. ...
We were down at the offices of public radio station 3PBS FM, situated at 171 Fitzroy Street in the Melbourne beachside suburb of St. Kilda.
Up the stairs to the third floor, through the door marked 3PBS, past the darkened office door on the left, the locked record library to the right, down the end of the passage, then left to the door of the on-air studio adjacent to where the transmitter lived, its heat-exhaust fan rumbling.
3PBS had been in the building only a few months at that time, and there was always a lingering smell of wood glue around the studios with their wooden partitions and panels.
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