And it’s a day everyone in the twin towns has been invited to share, with the station throwing open its doors and turning on a fair dinkum sausage sizzle to feed the masses.
It all starts at 10am with the opportunity to get a rare behind-the-scenes look at how a real community radio station operates on a daily basis – in the studio and from outside broadcast (OB) locations.
On this Sunday, the OB will be set up under the EMFM marquee near the station’s transmitting tower and will be running simultaneously with the live studio broadcasts.
If you have ever dreamt of being a DJ, a shock jock, or just shocking, but with a captive audience, the open day is your chance to have a go to test it all.
But perhaps rarest of all, will be the sale of the station’s surplus LPs (yes, those large vinyl round things which used to play music many moons ago), cassettes and CDs.
This, station manager John Vincent said, truly is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to secure some of music’s greatest – and most obscure – names.
“This is not the sort of sale you will find just anywhere; the mix of music being piled up in boxes inside the studio stretches back much further than the 30 years we have been operating,” John said.
“Parts of this collection represent decades of collecting, much of it from private libraries which former announcers brought here with them and then donated, or bequeathed, to us.
“They have to go, we simply don’t have enough room for them all, and they will be as cheap as a gold coin donation.”
John said entry to the big anniversary party was free and everyone gets a numbered ticket to go into the lucky prize draw and kids would have the chance to record their own radio message and hear it played back.
He said visitors could also meet their favourite presenters and even sit in on a live session.
“We are the community’s radio station and this is a day for the whole community, so we look forward to seeing as many of you as possible.”
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