3NOW 98.9 FM is a community radio station in Glenroy, Victoria, Australia.
The station is run by North West Community Radio Association Inc. Bob Rau is president.
North West FM has programs in English and other languages including:
Bob Rau and others at NOW FM believe these programs provide important assistance to new settlers.
For program times and broadcaster details see www.northwestfm.org/ethnic
The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) reports:
Community radio and TV stations are hugely important to the vitality of local communities, say the authors of a groundbreaking study being launched today.
In the largest project of its kind in the world, researchers from Griffith University have spent two years interviewing audiences across the country, including listeners of Indigenous stations, ethnic language programs, metropolitan, suburban, regional, rural and remote radio, as well as TV audiences in the emerging community TV sector.
The resulting report, Community Media Matters – an audience study of the Australian community broadcasting sector, reveals the integral role played by community broadcasting as described by some of its more than seven and a half million listeners.
The Hon. Helen Coonan, Minister for Communication, Information Technology and the Arts is launching the report at the Melbourne studios of 3RRR-FM, today, Friday August 17. [more]
Read more about the launch via the CBF.
