Welcome to Radio Blue Mountains
Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 is a not-for-profit, all volunteer community radio station serving the Blue Mountains since 1993. The station broadcasts 24 hours a day from its studio in Katoomba, to a potential audience of some 75,000 people across the Blue Mountains and to a much wider national and international audience through internet streaming.
Radio Blue Mountains is a member of the CBAA Community Radio Network, a national network that provides a wide range of programming when local presenters are unavailable. The station is funded through listener support, grants and limited commercial sponsorship and is run on behalf of the members by a dedicated management committee.
Become a listener, a member, a volunteer, a sponsor – or maybe all four!
What’s New?
The icon to press to cast your audio stream to a Bluetooth or smart speaker
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A recent Google patch update has caused all AAC streams* to stop working on Google smart speaker devices globally.
This is impacting all community radio stations on iHeartRadio Australia. We’re told Google is working on a patch or fix. There’s no timeline.
An alternative for your listeners is to cast the station audio stream from the Community Radio Plus app to their smart or Bluetooth speakers or smart TV.
Community Radio Plus is available from your favourite app store.
Andrew Morris
CBAA
*An AAC stream refers to an audio stream encoded in the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format. It’s a type of digital audio format that offers better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates and is commonly used for online streaming of music, radio, and podcasts.
Meet The RBM Crew
Flinn Donovan is the latest RBM presenter to step forward and answer a few questions about himself, for the benefit of our listeners streaming through this website. RL.
Bradley Spillane is the founder and host of The Men’s Mental Health Show, a weekly radio program airing on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM. Broadcast most Tuesdays from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM, RL.
Find Sebastiaan’s article, and all our other Meet The RBM Crew articles here
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Program Showcase
The Mens Mental Health Show
Tune in to the show each Tuesday morning at 11am.
Once our show goes to air it is available to listen back to on Spotify wishing 24-48 hours. Listen here.
We only, and always, do face to face interviews in the RBM studio in Katoomba, NSW. Thanks everyone.
Bradley Spillane – Founder and Host – Men’s Mental Health Show.
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Matt Tonks music on the Men’s Mental Health Show
On Tuesday 04 03 2025 Brad Spillane hosted the Men’s Mental Health Show and was joined by Pat Blacker from StandBy – Support After Suicide and singer songwriter Matt Tonks. Later Dins from RBM’s Parke Street Social joined the conversation.
Brad, Pat and Matt spoke about Lived Experience and Forgiveness. Matt also played some tunes.
The Men’s Mental Health Show is available to listen back to in podcast form here
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Show Podcasts
Strange Brew 89.1FM | Podcasts
Matters of the Heart 89.1FM | Podcasts
Talking ArtZ 89.1FM | Podcasts
Blue Mountains Live 89.1FM | Podcasts
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Want to Get Involved?
Radio Blue Mountains is always looking for new voices to join our growing community of presenters and producers. Got a great idea for a show? Want to share your music or storytelling skills? We’d love to hear from you!
📩 Email us at [email protected] or visit rbm.org.au to find out how you can become part of the team.
Get involved at the Council
LINKS FOR THE BMCC WEEKLY NOTICES
May 12th – 16th
Listen to the messages during the Breakfast Show and then follow the links:
National Road Safety Week pledge
Link: roadsafetyweek.com.au
Information and pledge for National Road Safety Week 2025
Blue Mountains Bike Fix & Fun Day
Link: bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Purpose: Bookings and event information for the Bike Fix & Fun Day
City of the Arts Grants Program
Link: bmcc.nsw.gov.au/city-of-the-arts-trust
Details and application link for $10,000 arts grants
Blue Mountains Stories: A moment in time exhibition
Original link: bmcc.nsw.gov.au/a-moment-in-time
Purpose: Exhibition details at Katoomba Library
Wynne Prize exhibition
Original link: bluemountainsculturalcentre.com.au
Purpose: Exhibition and gallery talk details at the Cultural Centre
🎧 Broadcasting from the heart of the Blue Mountains – Radio BM, your voice, your community. … and have a great May!
Attention!!
Stay in the Loop with BMCC Weekly Updates – April2025
<<Top Stories This Week from the BMCC
Welcome to May 2025! As always, Radio Blue Mountains is your hub for local news, events, and initiatives that keep our community thriving. Each week, we’re sharing some exciting updates from the Blue Mountains City Council about what’s on in the rergion, Entertainment & Live Music with Brad Diedrich’s Tal;king ArtZ and Blue Mountains Live programs and Colin Semmler’s Entertainment this Week. On Friday’s we have all the local where to go news with the fabulous Catchy on the Ask RozTourism show. Wow!
Stay tuned to Radio Blue Mountains for more updates, local stories, and the best music around. Let’s make 2025 a year to remember!
Photographer of the Week
Lyndall Walker
From Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia
STUNNING: Lyndall Walker visited Breenhold Gardens, Mount Wilson, on Saturday and captured these wonderful images. As you can see, there is still plenty of colour around. Here: w3w.co/tailing.hooves.appearances
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Enjoy & Share great Blue Mountains photos
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Catch The Love
Coming Up On Catchy’s Shows!
20 May:
Catherine Kennedy – local jeweller
Vent Thomas – Homes for Older Women (HOW)
Sydney Hot Shots – All Male Review
22nd May
Teya – Together We Thrive
Raj – Solicitor/Bentatos,
Sophia – Romani Arts
27th May
Rachel – Summerlea Rose Jewellery
Pixie Willo – Creative Art Therapies for Kids
Stew taylor – Bespoke Chai, Blue Skies EDU
Be Extraordinary!
29th May
Carol – Triple P Positive Parenting
The Pooh Faerie
3rd June
Tony – Gem and Mineral Show
Annie – Knit and Sip
Baira – Sound Healing
5th June
Sarah Allelly – doco on brainonnature
Mark & Olivia – book launch at Megalong Books
10th June
Ana – Indigenous Advocate
Kylie (PA) & Veronica (CEO), Lifeline
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