- Target:
- The Chairman of 2RRR
- Region:
- Australia
- Website:
- www.facebook.com
2RRR, one of Australia's oldest community radio stations and breeding ground for dozens of professional radio announcers and home of creative and innovative radio content for decades is in serious trouble.
In March the board was notified that the land our transmitter and tower is housed on is to be sold by the leaseholder, Sydney Water. This means the station will have to cease broadcasting if an alternative cannot be found quickly. It took until late April for the board to communicate this to the members and that was only after the information was leaked onto the 2RRR members yahoogroup, a site that since has been routinely ignored by the board despite there being over 50 members on the list including a wealth of former and current board members.
Since that time the board through either inaction or otherwise have engaged in a PR war with the leaseholder in the local papers and have trumped receiving a letter from Sydney Water that appreciates our situation but offers no solution as a triumph in the battle.
We cannot allow our station to vanish from the spectrum without a real fight. We stand for better governance and a board that is competent when negotiating 2RRRs future.
We believe in open communication and support debate and discussion. We are committed to saving the station we love and not letting it go down on basis of the ego or myopia of one or more board members.
We, the undersigned, believe strongly in the value of 2RRR to the Sydney and Ryde communities. We are concerned at apparent inaction of the board of the station in managing the process of finding a new site for the transmitter.
We stand for better governance and a board that is competent when negotiating 2RRRs future.
We believe in open communication and support debate and discussion.
We are committed to saving the station we love and not letting it go down on basis of the ego or myopia of one or more board members.
We stand for a strong and vibrant 2RRR governed by the community for the community.
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The Save 2RRR - Community Radio petition to The Chairman of 2RRR was written by DJRingfinger and is in the category Media Issues at GoPetition.