89.1 Radio Blue Mountains

89.1 Radio Blue Mountains is a not-for-profit, all volunteer community radio station serving the Blue Mountains since 1993. It broadcasts 24 hours a day from its studio in Gang Gang Street, Katoomba, to a potential audience of some 75,000 people across the Blue Mountains and to a much wider national and international audience through internet streaming. Radio Blue Mountains is linked to the CBAA Community Radio Network, a national community radio network which provides a wide range of programming when local presenters are not available. The station is funded through listener support, grants and limited commercial sponsorship.

History

The Blue Mountains Public Broadcasting Society Inc was set up in Katoomba on 25 August 1985. Initial test broadcasts were conducted in and around Leura and Katoomba over the next six and a half years.

In June 1992, the then-Australian Broadcasting Tribunal granted a full-time community broadcasting licence to the society. Six months later on 8 January 1993 the society began its first official public broadcast to the community.