House of Representatives Committees

Appendix E – Station Income

1.1

In its submission, CBF presented an analysis of community radio income and expenditure for 262 stations for the 2002-03 financial year.

Station Type (n) (% of all)

Total income

Total expenditure

Average income

Average exp.

Average surplus/
loss

All stations (262) (100)

46,584,804

45,013,842

177,805

171,809

5,996

 

 

 

 

 

 

stations earning <$500k.
(236) (90)

26,298,809

25,243,897

111,436

106,966

4,470

stations earning >$500k.
(26) (10)

20,285,995

19,769,946

780,231

760,383

19,848

 

 

 

 

 

 

Metropolitan (53) (10)

26,34,709

25,534,362

504,428

481,780

22,648

Suburban (42) (16)

3,899,816

3,402,530

93,082

81,013

12,069

Regional (94) (36)

8,308,186

237,652

88,385

87,635

750

Rural (73) (28)

7,642,094

7,839,299

104,686

107,388

-2,702

 

 

 

 

 

 

General (169) (64)

20,624,120

19,590,107

122,036

115,918

6,118

Religious (34) (13)

9,475,968

9,376,189

278,705

275,770

2,935

Indigenous (non RIBS) (22) (8)

7,171,929

7,753,233

325,997

352,420

-26,423

RPH (14) (5)

2,120,428

1,899,955

151,459

135,711

15,748

Ethnic (7) (3)

3,218,597

2,821,517

459,800

403,074

56,726

Youth (6) (2)

983,690

827,495

163,948

137,916

26,032

Seniors (5) (2)

385,069

328,140

77,014

65,628

11,386

Fine Music (5) (2)

2,605,004

2,417,207

521,001

483,441

37,560

Source CBF, submission no. 114, p. 11.

1.2

CBF provided clarification on some of the data:

As noted at p.20 of the ACMA survey the results for rural stations have been distorted by the strong presence of 15 Indigenous stations in the sample. Indigenous stations receive operational funding from the DCITA Indigenous Broadcasting Program that accounted for almost 46% of total rural station income. When this amount is removed from the data the average income for the remaining 58 rural stations is $71,526. Non-Indigenous rural community radio stations actually have the lowest average income of any station type.1


Footnotes

1

CBF, submission no. 114, p. 11. Back

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