Plenty Valley FM
| City | Melbourne, Australia |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Northern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia |
| Slogan | "Your Local Station" |
| Frequency | 88.6 MHz FM |
| First air date | 1987 |
| Format | Music & Community |
| Webcast | Browser Streaming |
| Website |
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Plenty Valley FM 88.6 is a community radio station based in Melbourne, Australia. It is broadcast on 88.6 MHz FM. It began transmission in 1987.
It is licensed by the Australian Broadcasting Authority to broadcast within guidelines prescribed by the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia.
Plenty Valley FM's studios are based in the northern Melbourne suburb of Mill Park, and broadcasts to areas within the City of Banyule, City of Manningham, City of Whittlesea and the Shire of Nillumbik.
Current programs
Monday to Friday
- Workdays: 10 am to 2 pm.
- Afternoons: 2 pm to 4 pm, hosted by a different presenter for each day of the week.
- Drive: From 4 pm to 6 pm, hosted by a different presenter for each day of the week.
These programmes cover issues that arise in the local community, around the country and around the globe. These shows also feature sport, traffic, weather, community service announcements, and also play a wide variety of music.
International Programmes
PVFM provides a wide range of international programmes for local ethnic communities to listen to during the week. These programmes are broadcast between 6 pm and midnight, and are presented in foreign languages.
- Swarna FM (Sinhala) & Laka Mihira (Sinhala)
- The Romani Show (Romani)
- Vanna Amuthama (Tamil)
- Darol Salam (Arabik)
- Rhythm & News (Hellenic Greek)
- Lebanese Show (Lebanese)
- Macedonian Show (Macedonian)
- Samoa E Tasi (Samoana)
- Jhankaro (Fijiana)
- The Punjabi Show (Punjabi)
- Pronto (Italian)
- Chinese from the North (Chinese)
Weekends
The weekends normally host a selection of specialised programs, many of which focus on specific music genres - such as rock music from the 60's to the current day on Let's Rock, an all Beatles show titled From Us To You, nostalgic top 40 tracks from past decades on Those Were The Days, retro classics and recent hits on Wired For Sound. These shows normally alternate between Saturday and Sunday for summer and winter.
The Heat Is On is one of PVFM's longer running variety weekend programs, and is broadcast on a Saturday night at 6pm hosted on alternate weeks by Rob Puglielli and Chris Keating.
Saturday
Saturday is traditionally Plenty Valley FM's sports day, with a number of programs throughout the day covering a variety of sports from local to international level. During the winter months, daytime programs include Outside The Arcs, Winners Aplenty Big Sports Breakfast Show, and Behind The Wheel. Throughout the summer, the NMCA and DVCA Cricket Shows feature in the morning, with Not The Plenty Valley FM Sports Show and Sports Addiction following up in the late morning and early afternoon. Other Saturday programs include One Summer Hits & Memories' (4 pm to 6 pm)', The Heat Is On (6 pm to 8 pm), Let's Rock (8 pm to 10 pm), and Trash Disco (10 pm to midnight).
Sunday
Sunday usually features lifestyle and pop culture programs, such as Valley Lifestyles which covers local events, gardening, and food & wine. Other programs include the Christianity show God's Not Dead, "From Us To You, Almost Famous which seeks to unearth new, young Australian musicians,Those Were The Days, Wired For Sound, Jazz Oz Style, and Classic Rock Class.
Overnight Music
At midnight and weekday mornings, 88.6 Plenty Valley FM broadcasts Plenty Valley FM Overnight and Mornings, during the day and overnight.
Northern Football League
Plenty Valley FM broadcasts the Northern Football League Match of the Day each Saturday during the winter football season from 1 pm to 5 pm. The broadcast leads in with an hour-long preview show covering the days upcoming fixtures across all three senior divisions of the NFL, before the commentary team commence the broadcast for the chosen match of that weekend.
The commentary team provide 'Around the Ground' score updates throughout the afternoon to keep the listeners up to date with other concurrent matches, similar to BBC Radio 5 Live's broadcasts of the English Premier League.
The NFL Match of the Day broadcasts are one of PVFM's biggest listener drawcards, attracting large audiences through the winter months, woth Plenty Valley FM being the sole radio station to cover the NFL (the northern suburbs largest football league).