What are some of your habits?
One good coffee in a quality cafe every day of the year = $1092
Two bottles of fine red wine a week for a year = $3640
Dinner for two at a decent restaurant once a month for a year = $5040
All fine things that add pleasure to life...

Quality classical music, passionate broadcasters, live to air performances,
24 hours a day, 365 days of the year = $85*.
Support your habit
Support 3MBS!

The 2007 Radiothon runs from May 11 to May 20. Every person that calls to subscribe receives a free CD and is entered into the Daily Draw. Each day over 22 prizes will be given away, including musical instruments, dinners for two, tickets to performances by the Melbourne Theatre Company, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Victorian Opera and Fraser Island holiday packages. At the end of the Radiothon, every person who subscribed will be entered in the Major Draw, with the chance to win a Bernstein Piano valued at over $6,000, a Nova Cinema Gold Pass ($3300), a performance by the Flinders Quartet or the Benaud Trio ($2500 and $2000) or a subscription to the Master Series Season of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ($1200).

MAJOR PRIZE DRAW

• 1st Prize Bernstein Elegance upright Piano, courtesy of Bernies Music Land (piano stool, tuning, five piano lessons and delivery in Melbourne metropolitan area included). Valued at $6,302.

• 2nd Prize Nova Cinema Gold Pass, allowing you and a friend to see unlimited films for a 12-month period ($3,300)

• 3rd Prize The Flinders Quartet will give a performance of a major work at your private function. ($2,500)

• 4th Prize  The Benaud Trio will give a performance of a major work at your special event. ($2000)

• 5th Prize Klepners Platinum 3MBS pin $1900.

• 6th Prize a series subscription to Master Series Season by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ($1,200)

SUBSCRIBE ONLINE
Through 3mbsboxoffice.com secure transactions, visit the 3mbsboxoffice site to subscribe online during Radiothon.

NEW CATEGORY
This year 3MBS is adding a new category to our subscriptions, the Maestro in the Making Youth Subscription. All new Youth subscribers will have the chance to win a session in our new recording suite with professional engineers to produce a CD for friends and relatives.

Why Subscribe to 3MBS during Radiothon?
The call for listeners to become subscribers and help keep fine music on the air in Melbourne.
Every year at this time, the only classical music radio station based in Melbourne, 3MBS, launches into Radiothon mode.  The only way for this station to survive and develop is for its listeners to pitch in and subscribe. 

Radiothon 2007 is the culmination of a special time for the station. After years of searching, the station is finally in new premises at the Abbotsford Convent. St Euphrasia began life in the 1870s as a school for local children. Architect Daryl Jackson, leading a team of dedicated tradespeople, has transformed this glorious building into a state of the art media facility. And the physical legacy of this commitment and hard work is astonishing; 3 broadcast studios, a performance/recording suite complete with grand piano, volunteer facilities, huge CD library, all set amidst the stunning gardens of the Convent precinct. But it’s by no means complete, and if 3MBS is to move forward, utilising all these remarkable facilities to promote classical music and local musicians, it needs the support of listeners more than ever.

The station has grand plans: more concerts and live to air recordings, a new education program involving major educational institutions and their top students, and going to  local schools teaching young people the joys of classical music. Big plans. Plans that benefit Melbourne’s classical community.

3MBS is run by a remarkable group of over 150 volunteers and a small team of staff who all give time, energy and passion to keep the station alive. Each and every volunteer gives their time freely, whether it is as a broadcaster or buying the biscuits for afternoon tea.
3MBS does not receive government funding, they rely on events such as the Radiothon to keep going. Subscriptions provide the funds necessary to keep the station on air; to keep broadcasting fine music and run all the additional programs offered to listeners and supporters.  3MBS runs the National Composer Award, the Young Performer Award, the Live at the Convent Series, two showcase concerts and offers accredited broadcast training to some of Melbourne’s best young musicians. 

3MBS wants to develop your classical habit by subscribing during the Radiothon 2007.

*Classical Subscription Category (Individual)