3ZZZ
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| City | Mount Dandenong |
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| Broadcast area | Melbourne, Victoria |
| Slogan | Melbourne Ethnic Community Radio - Broadcasting in your language |
| Frequency | 92.3 MHz FM |
| First air date | June 1989 |
| Format | Multilingual programming |
| Language(s) | Various |
| ERP | 56 kW |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°50′11″S 145°20′50″E / 37.8364°S 145.3472°ECoordinates: 37°50′11″S 145°20′50″E / 37.8364°S 145.3472°E |
| Callsign meaning |
3 - Victoria ZZZ - |
| Owner | Ethnic Public Broadcasting Association of Victoria Ltd. |
| Website | www |
3ZZZ (3 Triple Zed) is an ethnic community radio station in Melbourne, Victoria that currently broadcasts programs in over 70 languages on 92.3 MHz FM and is licensed to Mount Dandenong, Victoria.
3ZZZ is Australia's largest community multilingual radio station, with estimates at over 400,000 listeners, providing an independent, alternative and local voice in the media.
3ZZZ began regular broadcasting on 92.3 MHz (the old 3EON frequency) in June 1989.
3ZZZ was successful in a licence application that was contested at the time by a Spanish language broadcasting group known as "The Voice of Hispano America (VHA-FM)".
The community broadcast licence was granted to 3ZZZ on the basis of its diversity of languages and communities represented.
3ZZZ began streaming online in 2000 and was launched on digital radio in 2010.
In 2006, 3ZZZ celebrated 30 years of ethnic broadcasting in Australia. Ethnic broadcasting in Australia emerged from community and political campaigns in the early 1970s.
The beginning of ethnic broadcasting in Australia goes back to 1973. The ethnic community in Australia was very large, socially and politically conscious and active. It began to work together with the more enlightened and democratic sections of the wider Australian community, and threw its considerable strength and influence into the campaigns for access and equity to the nations airwaves.
In 1975, the community run, and ABC owned and assisted access radio 3ZZ was born, with 20 ethnic communities being the first to broadcast in their ethnic languages, through the national broadcaster. 3CR and 3EA were not far behind. (3CR at that time broadcast no ethnic programs.) But it was 3ZZ that provided for the first time opportunity for ordinary people to have a say on air in their own language, and to have a say as to how the station was managed.
3ZZ has lobbied governments and other institutions to recognise and respect the significance of ethnic broadcasting as 3ZZ sees it. The closure of 3ZZ in 1977 was vigorously fought against.
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