About Us

Community broadcasters provide ad-free programming from local communities as an alternative to mainstream broadcasting. In principle, they create opportunities for every member of our society to be able to go on air. Community broadcasters are nonprofit, autonomous, and ad-free media organisations. Legally they are licensed under the Private Radio Act (PrR-G) and the Audiovisual Media Services Act (AMD-G).

Community Radio and Community TV join forces in the Association of Austrian Community Broadcasters in order to better represent their interests. This interest group was founded in 1993, long before the legalisation of private broadcasting. It all began with radio.

Our greatest successes as an interest group include:

• The merger of Community Radio with Community TV in the Association of Austrian Community Broadcasters
  
• A contemporary revision of the Radio Archive to provide a more user-friendly interface
• The legal anchoring of non-commercial broadcasting in § 1 PrR-G
• The legal establishment of the Non-Commercial Broadcasting Fund in § 29 KOG
• a Radio Archive of all the Community Radio stations
• Rights Clearance for our Radio Archive concerning copyright and licensing in regard to music
  
• The sustaining solidarity of our members through the political and financial difficulties of the 2000s
• The demise of ORF’s monopoly in 1993 and the subsequent granting of broadcasting licenses to Community Radio stations