$50,000 in matched funding to launch our 50th anniversary
Over the past fifty years, the station has evolved to suit the listening habits of the community. Our 103.5FM band continues to broadcast since its establishment in 1975. Listeners can now access DAB and digital streaming via the 3MBS website and the Community Radio Plus app, allowing you, our listeners, to tune in live and experience past performances. In 2025, 3MBS will introduce podcasting that delves into specific musical topics, genres and sector news and explore how Australia’s emerging artists wish to shape the next generation of music making.
3MBS has also hosted several generations of Australia’s leading musical artists, arts leaders and academics, as well as countless international superstars touring Australia in performance and on air interviews. The station has mentored and promoted performance careers, encouraged aspiring young musicians through performance and on air promotion, and , increasingly over the past ten years, has produced concerts, festivals, discussion series and outside broadcasts in unique locations around Melbourne.
Above all, the station has you – our dedicated listeners, music lovers of all ages, who 3MBS has introduced the uplifting and unique sound world of classical music to and continues to surprise and comfort during the best and worst times.
To launch our fiftieth anniversary celebrations, the 3MBS Board of Directors has released $50,000 of reserve funds. So to kickstart our anniversary year, 3MBS is seeking to match fund $50,000 that will support a full program of commemorative initiatives throughout 2025 and ongoing performance events in the future. Moreover, this matched funding will contribute to 3MBS Melbourne for the Future, a new sustainability fund that will ensure the station’s operations as we begin a new chapter for 3MBS.
This is why we need your support.
Help us to double the impact of your favourite radio station by donating and 3MBS will match it, dollar for dollar!