SYN 90.7

City of license	Melbourne, Australia
Broadcast area	Melbourne
Branding	SYN nine-oh-seven
Slogan	where the kids push the buttons
First air date	28th January, 2003
Frequency	90.7 MHz FM
Format	No formal playlist
Class	Community
Callsign meaning	3SYN - Student Youth Network
Former callsigns	3SRA/3TD
Owner	Student Youth Network Inc.
Webcast	http://www.syn.org.au/listen/syn-wm.asx
Website	http://www.syn.org.au/

Member -C31 Melbourne and Geelong

Type	Community television channel
Country	Australia
Availability	Melbourne
Founded	1994
Owner	Melbourne Community Television Consortium
Launch date	1994
Website	www.c31.org.au

SYN (pronounced sin) stands for Student Youth Network. The Student Youth Network (SYN) is a not-for-profit, completely youth-driven organisation based in Melbourne, Australia which currently operates a full-time Melbourne-wide community radio station (90.7 SYN-FM), produces 10 hours a week of live television (broadcast on Channel 31), publishes a quarterly magazine (Pecado) and maintains a full-time internet presence (www.syn.org.au). Image File history File linksMetadata Synradio. ... In the United States (and potentially elswhere), each radio station or TV station is assigned a city of license by the Federal Communications Commission that they must serve. While this has become far less meaningful over the decades, stations are still required to post their public file somewhere within the... Melbourne (pronounced either or [1]) is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-largest city in Australia, with a population of approximately 3. ... Melbourne (pronounced either or [1]) is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-largest city in Australia, with a population of approximately 3. ... Look up Slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Sine waves of various frequencies; the lower waves have higher frequencies than those above. ... A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. ... This is the list of broadcast station classes. ... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Website - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Image File history File links Channel31melbourne_c31_logo. ... The phrase community television has been used somewhat differently around the world. ... The term television channel generally refers to either a television station or its cable/satellite counterpart (both outlined below). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Website - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Melbourne (pronounced either or [1]) is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-largest city in Australia, with a population of approximately 3. ... 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. ... Channel 31 is the frequency reserved for community television stations in Australian capital cities. ...

SYN provides access, participation, education and training to all students and youth aged 12-25 that are into radio, television, print and web media, providing practical hand-on experience. It is one of the only media organisations in the world run solely by people aged under 26. Everything from administration, finances, talent casting and sponsorship is organised by youth between 12-25, in an aim to provide a base for young talent in all fields of media production and journalism.

SYN membership is open to any individual for a nominal fee and all members aged under 26 have the opportunity to apply for their own show. To ensure that as many young people as possible are given the opportunity to access airtime, the program grid is completely re-formulated five times a year. All presenters exercise autonomous control over the content, style and music of their show.

Mission Statement

The mission statement of SYN is:

• “to provide young people with opportunities, education and training in all areas of the media;

• to provide an informative and entertaining alternative to mainstream media;

• to support the interests of the youth community;

• to be youth focused and operated, fully;

• to respect local and new music, arts and ideas;

• to represent;

• to keep it real.

• word.”

Radio

SYN 90.7 can be heard 24/7 all around the Melbourne and Geelong areas, at 90.7 on the FM dial. The music and content on-air is determined by the presenters and producers of each program. Therefore, music ranges from punk to hip-hop, from indie to dance, and everywhere in between. Content includes musical sub-cultures, sport, comedy, youth issues, satire, finance, science, food and travel

SYN-FM’s broadcast signal covers the entire Metropolitan Melbourne area and extends as far as Ballarat, Lorne, Kilmore and Warragul and can be streamed from the web from any location at www.syn.org.au.

Television

SYN produces two television programs on Melbourne Community TV Station, Channel 31, 1700 and The Sauce, a current affairs program. Interviews on SYN television have included Simple Plan, Magic Dirt, Rove Mc Manus, The Donnas, The Darkness, Steve-O & Johnny Knoxville (Jackass) and Slipknot. Channel 31 is the frequency reserved for community television stations in Australian capital cities. ...

SYN-TV was launched in June 2003, a joint venture between C31 and SYN. SYN-TV was a live music video program hosted by presenters under the age of 18. SYN-TV was simulcast on 90.7 SYN-FM, C31 Melbourne and www.syn.org.au (4:30 – 5:30 pm weekdays). In the period since, SYN’s C31 programming has increased to 7.5 hours a week and television production has been incorporated into the education and training program. SYN continues to explore further expansion opportunities in partnership with C31.

Print

Four times a year, SYN releases its youth magazine, Pecado (Spanish for 'sin'). Pecado is distributed to SYN’s membership base of 1500 and at live SYN outside broadcasts, in city bars and cafes, at secondary schools that SYN visits and at music gigs presented by SYN. Pecado has a total distribution of 2,500 per edition.

Events

SYNBURBIA is a vibrant series of events for young people to create, attend and participate in. The SYNBURBIA program is currently supported by FReeZA Victorian State Government funding.

SYNBURBIA events are all ages, drug and alchol free and are usually held in the Melbourne CBD.

The events aim to represent diverse youth interests and not be solely music focussed; but encompass various forms of art, music and culture including film, theatre, dance, art, music, discussion and comedy.

About SYN

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SYN has become a dynamic, informative and entertaining media outlet providing unparalleled media-making access for young people. SYN has proved to be an innovative leader in the community broadcasting sector and many of the participation programs developed by SYN have been adopted by community broadcasters across the country. SYN’s leadership role was formally recognised in 2003 when the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia presented SYN with the Tony Staley Award for excellence in community broadcasting.

SYN is more than just a content producer; it offers a unique access point and meeting place whereby like-minded youth organisations and individuals collaborate in support of the diverse needs and interests of the youth community. As-a-result, SYN has been able to undertake numerous high-level projects encompassing a broad range of activities involving young people from across Victoria.

Young people are rarely granted a forum in the mainstream media to air their fresh and inspiring views—instead they are habitually disregarded or stereotyped as binge drinkers, drug addicts and trouble makers. SYN empowers young people as creators and not consumers of the media. Moreover, young people are given the opportunity to be innovative at every level of the organisation

Education and Training

Education and training is a major focus of the Student Youth Network. Since full-time radio broadcasting commenced in January 2003 over 100 secondary-schools from across Victoria have directly participated in SYN’s on-air programming. Secondary colleges have used SYN in curriculum areas such as Media, Music in Industry, SOSE, Oral English and ESL. SYN has also developed curriculum for the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) in the areas of Personal Development and Industry Experience through radio production and media studies.

SYN has the formal support of every major tertiary student union in Melbourne, the National Union of Students, and several TAFE colleges. Secondary colleges use SYN for curriculum initiatives such as Oral English and ESL. SYN has also developed curriculum for the Victorian Certificate of Advanced Learning (VCAL) in the areas of radio production and media studies. All SYN’s education and training programs are delivered on a peer-to-peer basis.

SYN is supported by the Victorian Department of Education and Training.In April 2005, SYN employed Adrian McMahon in the permanent role of Education and Training Manager. SYN offered the following programs and workshops in 2004-05:

• Detention: A daily radio program presented and produced by school students from right across Melbourne’s secondary school system. • SYN School Tours: 90 minute tours that allow students to learn in a hands-on environment the basics of radio and TV production. The tours also guide students around the extensive SYN FM, SYN TV and C31 facilities • Live @ Lunch: SYN trainers travel around Victoria to train students in the set-up and presentation of a live outside radio broadcast. Students then present a 1 hour broadcast before the rest of the school community • Sound editing workshops: In schools across Victoria, students are trained in the use of the free sound editing software program, Audacity, and finish the workshop with a completed radio piece

Youth Participation in SYN

Since 2003, SYN-FM has put over 3200 young people to-air on both radio and television. It has been estimated that over 4300 young people have been involved in SYN’s extensive education and training programs. For nearly three years, SYN has successfully applied media learning to young people from diverse cultural backgrounds including: • Indigenous communities • at-risk environments • the juvenile justice system • VCAL candidates

SYN is staffed entirely by young people under the age of 26.

Young people have the opportunity to be involved at every level of the organisation. Currently, SYN’s Board, paid staff and volunteers are under 26 (SYN has an exemption from the Equal Opportunity Act to discriminate in our employment practices on the basis of age). While many volunteers at SYN are attracted to the on-air component of the organisation, SYN actively encourages volunteers in a range of management and operational roles. SYN seeks to actively provide learning and development opportunities in the management and day-to-day operations of the organisation.

SYN has grown substantially and significantly from our original aim of establishing a youth radio station. Over the past three years SYN has evolved to reflect the changing needs of Melbourne’s youth community.

Key Programs

The Hoist for Breakfast 7am Daily

The Hoist for Breakfast was a new initiative launched in 2005 to provide listeners with an alternative breakfast radio program focused on local music and emerging artists. All hosts are under the age of 25 and the program has hosted a variety of acts including Shihad, TZU, The Vasco Era, Mia Dyson and The Pictures.. The Hoist Top 10 allows the listeners to vote for their favourite Australian track which is counted down each week live-to-air.

The Sunday Sessions - Live Music Program

The Sunday Sessions is SYN's very own live music show. The team records live sets at clubs and pubs across Melbourne and beams them direct into listener’s living rooms. We have recorded the best in Australasian music across all genres including Regurgitator, Evermore, Shihad, Clare Bowditch, Downsyde, Lior and After The Fall.

New and Approved, Weekdays at 6pm

New and Approved is SYN’s new nightly music show playing the latest release tracks from all major music genres. Presented and produced entirely by under 18s, New and Approved provides an opportunity for young people to show off their new music knowledge. The show features such a nightly gig guide, ‘first-plays’ of tracks and interviews with current artists.

Pathways Training Program

The Pathways Project aims to establish a unique media outlet for young people (aged 12–25) with physical disabilities. Participants will learn how to create their own media and get their voices heard on Melbourne radio while working towards a formal qualification (Certificate II in Broadcasting [Radio]). The project will involve young people from across the Melbourne metropolitan region and regional areas depending on transport availability.

SYN wants to see more people with disabilities hosting television programs, writing news columns and producing talk-back radio because we believe that those who control media content are in the best position to shape and influence public opinion. We want disabled people to be empowered to help shape Victoria’s cultural, political and social agendas. This project will help young people to take those first difficult steps into the media and is generously supported by the Department of Human Services and Foundation for Young Australians.

LIP Radio

Radio is traditionally a male-dominated medium. The LIP Radio project has two central benefits: giving young women the real opportunity to become involved in radio and raising the community profile of issues relevant to young women. The project is directly supported by the Alfred Benson Bequest.

The result has been Lip Radio a new weekly radio program co-produced by SYN and LIP Magazine. The program has already broken new ground by creating an environment in which feminism is made accessible to a new generation of young women and also young men.

Lip Radio has also provided a non-threatening, easy-going forum for women to discus issues including body image, femininity, mother/daughter relationships, dating and empowerment. In a short space of time, Lip has interviewed Senator Natasha Stott Despoja, Killing Heidi's Ella Hooper, John Safran, Helen Razer, Labor MP Tanya Plibersek, and conducted vox pops with numerous young adults from schools and universities across Melbourne.

Asian Pop Night

A night of seven hours of extended programming run entirely by international students, SEA Pop has introduced the broader SYN listenership to a wide variety of south-east Asian issues. The night provides a significant space for international students to become a stronger part of their local Australian communities, opening up new connections and dismantling cultural barriers to engagement.

The project will promote dialogue among young people around diverse communities, help young people in Melbourne appreciate multiculturalism and ultimately increase Australian’s awareness and knowledge of regional issues.

Asian Pop Night broadcasts every Tuesday night from 7pm on SYN 90.7

Current Key Personnel

Bryce Ives, General Manager

Bryce Ives, 22, has been involved in community broadcasting for over nine years. He served as a SYN Board Member form 2003, until gaining employment at SYN in 2004. Bryce has a huge range of experience at both community and government broadcasters and has also been a Drama Teacher. He has demonstrated a significant capacity for community media promotion, funding and support. His enthusiasm for the organisation and his considerable vision for its potential have made him an ideal representative of the station. Before being employed at SYN, Bryce was employed by the Melbourne Community Television Consortium Ltd to oversee it’s youth programming. Bryce is a current director of the CBAA (Community Broadcasting Association of Australia) and former Chairman of the NYMN (National Youth Media Network. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Alicia Kegele, President

Alicia Kegele, 26, is the current President of SYN. Alicia has had a strong dedication to the development of the station, in both paid and unpaid capacities – through various roles including Presenter, Programming Manager and Sponsorship Manager. Alicia holds a Bachelor of Business Accountancy from RMIT University.

Andrew Crook, Secretary

Andrew Crook is the Board Secretary of SYN and a policy officer with Victoria’s Department of Human Services. He has experience in government and media, having worked as a reporter on national magazines including The Monthly and as a Parliamentary Adviser in the Legislative Assembly. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne.

History of SYN

SRA (RMIT University Student Radio Assiciation) and 3TD (Thornbury Darebin Secondary College's radio station) merged together to apply for a full-time community radio licence in 2001, to service Melbourne's youth under the new moniker of SYN: the Student Youth Network. They were successfully awarded one of the four community licenses made available (the others granted to 3TLC, Light FM and 3KND) by the Australian Communications and Media Authority on the 19th December 2001. RMIT University (previously Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), is a university in Melbourne, Australia. ... 3KND (South East Indegenous Media Association Inc). ... Australian Communications and Media Authority is an Australian government agency whose main roles are to regulate broadcasting, radiocommunications and telecommunications, and to respresent Australian interests in international communications matters. ...

In 2000, the Australian Communications and Media Authority invited applications for one new commercial FM station [$70m] and four community licences in Melbourne. There were twenty contenders for the community licences. The Student Youth Network or SYN was an aspirant youth radio station that brought together secondary students at Thornbury-Darebin Secondary College and several university radio stations in the long established Student Radio Association (SRA) and Youthworx which was at the time a concept under trial. It was this tri-partite collaboration that was successful in winning of a full-power community licence late in 2001. SYN was not the longest running youth radio project in contention but from the outset it was substantially youth driven. The unique features of the SYN bid were firstly, the involvement of all sections of youth – university students, school students and marginalised young people outside of education - in an organic way ie. the way SYN was structured and functioned facilitated inclusion and cooperation although these features also required active attention. Youth projects are rarely so inherently inclusive. More common are projects specifically targeted to ‘at risk’ youth that operate separately or programs for mainstream young people with low participation of marginalised youth. Secondly, SYN adopted a learning pathways approach for young people with an explicit statement of purposes that emphasised a commitment to ‘access, participation, diversity, education and training’. On the day of the ABA public hearing (August 2001), the commissioners headed by Professor David Flint presided and an ABA lawyer interrogated the team of young people arguing for SYN. The room was filled with young people sporting red tee-shirts emblazoned with the SYN bulls-eye emblem. Australian Communications and Media Authority is an Australian government agency whose main roles are to regulate broadcasting, radiocommunications and telecommunications, and to respresent Australian interests in international communications matters. ...

The ABA auctioned a new licence for a commercial FM broadcaster to serve the Melbourne market. The winning bid was $70 million. In December 2001, the ABA granted SYN a Melbourne-wide FM community radio broadcasting licence to transmit at the same signal power. After a twelve-month period (2002) mainly concerned with raising nearly $1 million to implement the necessary broadcasting infrastructure, SYN-FM 90.7 commenced permanent broadcasting on 28th January, 2003. In this period the station forged key partnerships with RMIT (University, Union and Student Union), the Office for Youth Affairs, Youthworx and The Department of Education & Training and many other community groups. Ironically, the new youth station broadcasts from the same radio tower as the new commercial station Nova and has the same power and reach.

About half of its broadcast time is allocated to tertiary student programs and the other half to secondary students and other youth programs, such as those produced through YouthWorx. Every twelve weeks, the grid of programs spills over to allow for new programs and new presenters. Tertiary students are supported financially and organisationally by a consortium of student associations from all of the metropolitan universities in Melbourne. Secondary students and their teachers in schools are currently supported by two teachers seconded by the Education Department to develop curriculum and support secondary student broadcasting on SYN-FM. YouthWorx is the key support mechanism to link extremely marginalised and disadvantaged young people and youth at risk into SYN-FM. SYN has become a dynamic radio station providing unparalleled access for young people to participate in creating their own media. Its cross media development strategies into television, print and CD production have also given SYN a high profile in the community broadcasting sector and many of the youth-based participation programs developed by SYN have been utilised by community broadcasters across the country. This was recognised in 2003 when the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia presented SYN with the Tony Staley Award for excellence in community broadcasting.

SYN has received various awards during its existence, the most notable of which are from the annual CBAA Awards for Community Broadcasting in Australia. These include: The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) is the national representative organisation for community radio and television stations in Australia. ...

• Television Producer of the Year (The Sauce, Natasha Duckett, Laura Kelly & Alison Murphy, 2005)
• Television Producer of the Year (SYNTV, Bryce Ives, 2004)
• Can't Get Out of the Car Award (The Naughty Rude Show, 2004)
• Value For Money Award for 'Strategic Planning, Volunteer, Recruitment and Training' (2004)
• The Tony Staley Award for 'Providing Outstanding Opportunities for Youth Access to the Airwaves' (2003)
• Innovative Station/Program Promotion Award (SYNTV, 2003)

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External links

• SYN.org.au
• C31 Melbourne