canberra ra1 1 branding cms frequency 91.1 mhz fm first air date 15 july 2000 2000 07 15 1 format multilingual language s various erp 20 000 watts haat 332 m 2 transmitter coordinates 35 16 32 s 149 5 52 e 35.27556 s 149.09778 e 35.27556 ; 149.09778 callsign meaning 1 australian capital territory canberra multicultural service owner ethnic broadcasters council of the australian capital territory and surrounding districts inc. website official website fm 91.1 cms callsign 1cms is a multilingual community radio station broadcasting to canberra in languages other than english from studios in the suburb of holder . cms is a member of the national ethnic and multicultural broadcasters council nembc and the community broadcasting association of australia cbaa . the policy of cms is to encourage all languages to broadcast for at least an hour each week providing time on an equitable basis . programming priorities include youth women and emerging communities . 3 contents 1 history 2 current 3 programming 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit the ebc ethnic broadcasters council as it was then called started broadcasting by purchasing airtime on community station 2xx . up to 25 language groups were broadcasting for half an hour each per week during the 1980s . discontent in the early 1990s saw the ebc and 2xx sever ties with each other . ebc were off the air until august 1992 when they were able to apply for their own test broadcast licence . ebc were back on air on tuesdays and fridays using the facilities of artsound fm . in 1999 the ebc received a full time test licence to broadcast on 103.5 fm . soon after the on air identity was changed to canberra multicultural service and the frequency moved to the present 91.1 fm . then an application for a full broadcasting licence was applied for . this was granted on 15 june 2001 . 4 current edit fm 91.1 cms now has programming in around 30 languages . the station broadcasts live from the canberra multicultural festival each year . internet streaming was introduced in 2008 . programming edit as of 2008 the station broadcasts in the following languages 5 bosnian cantonese chilean spanish croatian cypriot greek dutch persian belgian dutch flemish french german greek hindi indonesian italian lao macedonian mandarin motu pigin polish samoan serbian sinhalese slovenian spanish swiss german tamil thai tongan urdu vietnamese satellite programming from deutsche welle radio france international and the national indigenous radio service is also carried . see also edit list of australian radio stations references edit http www.acma.gov.au webwr assets main lib100052 lic031 community radio broadcasting licences.pdf haat estimated from http www.itu.int srtm3 using ehaat . cms mission . cms radio . 2006 . retrieved 2008 07 09 . werner albrecht 2008 04 19 . cms history . cms radio . archived from the original on 18 july 2008 . retrieved 2008 07 09 . cms timetable pdf . cms radio . 2008 . archived from the original pdf on 19 july 2008 . retrieved 2008 07 09 . external links edit official website v t e radio stations in canberra am and fm stations with an asterisk are also available on digital in a trial multiplex am stations 666 abc canberra radio national 846 2ky 1008 2ca 1053 1rph 1125 2cc 1206 china radio international 1323 sbs radio 1440 rete italia 1620 & 1629 fm stations raw fm 87.6 87.8 ucfm radio austral 87.8 canberra fm88 88.0 acttab racing radio 88.7 valley fm 89.5 tuggeranong cms radio 91.1 1way fm 91.9 artsound fm 92.7 qbn fm 96.7 queanbeyan kix country 97.5 2xx fm 98.3 yass fm 100.3 yass triple j 101.5 abc classic fm 102.3 abc newsradio 103.9 104.7 sbs radio 105.5 mix 106.3 digital only stations abc abc grandstand abc jazz double j capital radio network my canberra digital sca buddha radio sbs radio sbs chill sbs popasia by call sign 1art 1cbr 1cms 1ea 1rph 1vfm 1way 2abcfm 2ca 2cc 2cn 2ky 2rn 2roc 2sbsfm 2xx australia radio markets adelaide brisbane canberra darwin gold coast hobart melbourne newcastle perth sydney see also list of radio stations in australia retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title 1cms & oldid 738807425 categories radio stations in canberracommunity radio stations in australiaradio stations established in 2000hidden categories use dmy dates from june 2015use australian english from june 2015all wikipedia articles written in australian english navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 september 2016 at 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