Planet Radio is a community radio

Community radio

Community radio is a type of radio service, that offers a third model of radio broadcasting beyond commercial broadcasting and public broadcasting. Community stations can serve geographic communities and communities of interest...

 station based in Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 dedicated to promoting environmental

Environmentalism

Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the concerns of non-human elements...

 issues and independent music. It narrowcasts on 88 FM

FM broadcasting

FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...

 to many locations in Brisbane, though some of its programmes are podcast

Podcast

A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...

 to reach a wider audience via the Internet

Internet

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. Its web site claims Planet Radio is the "world's first environmental radio service".

Programmes

Some of the weekly programmes on Planet Radio include:

• A Climate Affair - critical discussion of current environmental and societal issues
• Acoustic Harvest - acoustic music
  Acoustic music
  Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means...
  
   programme
• Agreeable Distortion - "cutting edge" indie music
• The Peanut Gallery - a "twisted and obtuse" comedy show

External links

• Official web site