CBD Statistics
Community Broadcasting Database: 2005-06 Results
The latest Community Broadcasting Database report was released in December 2007. The report, Community Broadcast Database: Survey of the Community Radio Sector, 2005-06 Financial Period provides a summary of data collected by the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) from community radio broadcasting licensees that were fully licensed and operating at 30 June 2006 (the statistics do not cover the operations of temporary community broadcasting licensees, or of Remote Indigenous Broadcasting Services (RIBS) and community television stations, which will be separately surveyed).
The data was collected between March and June 2007 using an online survey under the CBOnline Community Broadcast Database project (CBD).
This is the fourth CBD data collection to be undertaken, and was funded by the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA) through the Community Broadcasting Foundation (CBF).
This report provides an overview of information collected on key aspects of the community radio broadcasting sector, and includes details about sector growth, programming, volunteers and staff, training, subscribers and donors, sponsorship, technical resources and finances for the 2005-06 financial year, and some comparisons with data from the previous collections. It also provides a description of the CBOnline Database project, the survey methodology and how the data was analysed.
The aim of the CBOnline Database project is to provide accurate and reliable statistical information on the operations of community broadcasting stations for use by the sector in planning and promoting its activities, and preparing reports to government.
Information was collected for the Database for the first time in 2003 for the 2001-02 financial year. Three collections have taken place since then: in 2004 for the 2002-03 financial year; 2005 for the 2003-04 financial period; and now, in 2007, for the 2005-06 financial period.
Because the first collection employed different data gathering and analysis strategies than the subsequent collections, data trends reported here are based on comparisons between the 2002-03, 2003-04 and the 2005-06 collections only.
Current Report available here - CBD 2007 Results (PDF file-332KB)
Reports from previous collections available here - Previous Years
For more information on the Community Broadcasting Database, please contact the CBOnline Content Manager, Wendy Coates, at wcoates@cbonline.org.au.