Community radio station Tank FM are moving into an exciting 2016 with the building of new studios in Elbow Street, Kempsey.
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“We’re building new studios in West Kempsey which will allow us to have more presenters, facilitate training and produce more programs for the Macleay community,” Tank FM president Richard Kinny told the Macleay Argus.
“The move will also allow us to have two studios and relocate our head office at the Centrepoint Arcade to the new Elbow Street studios eventually consolidating everything under one roof.
“However, I would like to make clear that our current studio in the tank at Rudder Park will remain and in fact we will be upgrading the communication tower at the tank, which will allow us to reach more people across the Macleay Valley.”
Mr Kinny said the decision to build new studios at Elbow Street was not an easy decision.
“Tank FM has been in the tank at Rudder Park for nearly 20 years and its an iconic location and the decision wasn’t taken lightly,” Mr Kinny said.
“Our members were presented with all the facts and the logistics of staying and/or leaving and they voted to build new studios once they realised the costs of trying to upgrade our Rudder Park studio.
“The move will allow us to not only have two more studios but it will also accommodate an office, administration, reception, foyer and lounge area for visitors, including toilets and off-street parking.”
Mr Kinny said 2016 will be an exciting year for Tank FM with the new studios allowing the community radio station to expand on everything it currently does.
“Hopefully it will expand everything we do and move us more into the community, which is part of our licence,” he said.
“The second studio will allow us to bring in more work experience people and most likely allow us to have more volunteers. At the moment we have 30 volunteers.
“The station is about creating diversity in the programs that we run as we try to offer as many different programs as possible and it will also allow us to create programs that we can offer to other community radio stations through the Community Radio Network (CRN) via satellite.”
