Posted by Anton at October 31st, 2006

I’ve been working at Hills AM: the local community access radio station for a while. I do some vanity broadcasting there with a show at 9am on a Tuesday morning playing some obscure pop music (and sometimes not so obscure).

They have asked me to manage acquiring an FM licence to go with their AM one after a recent government announcement that they were releasing some frequencies for community use. I kicked the project off yesterday with a bit of a brainstorm and a few conference calls to other community access station managers seeing if there were economies of scale to be achieved. There are at least two other NZ community access stations wanting to do the same thing.

We got most of the main areas of work captured;

  • Funding
  • Integration with current systems
  • Kit acquisition
  • Marketing
  • Legal work

I think with the current station staff we can build a WBS and farm out jobs quite nicely.

This looks like a good job for 2007.