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When Darius Family (18) and Aeden Ratcliffe (17) decided they wanted to make a live television show The Wrap, anyone watching probably wouldn't know that the Executive Producers of the show were under 18 and still at school.
 
The Wrap has been a huge success - every Friday night for a year, the team has brought the best of Melbourne's music, arts, comedy and fashion to your screens, but it finishes up this week...

Melbourne's own Red Rockets of Borneo are the winners of the 2011 SYN Free Kick band competition!
 
Their prize is a spot on the line-up at the Reclink Community Cup on June 26, alongside You Am I, Tumbleweed, The Rebelles and Mercy Kills.

SYN is pleased to announce the five talented bands for The Free Kick Final!
 
I, A Man, Rain Party, Red Rockets of Borneo, Royal Chant and The Living Eyes will compete on Sunday, May 22nd at The Tote for their chance to perform at this year's Reclink Community Cup! 
 

We've just launched a brand new suite of online training resources - unleash your media-making potential now at the SYN training portal: syn.org.au/training
 
There are video tutorials, fact sheets and guides for radio, TV, podcasting, and creative content production.
 
At SYN, youth make the media - that means YOU make the media!

SYN celebrated the launch of community digital radio in Melbourne at Federation Square with a nine-station simultaneous live broadcast  - epic! Pictured here are Emma and Lexie who hosted our broadcast, which included an interview with Senator Stephen Conroy - podcasts to come soon.
 
It was a great day which really highlighted the strength of our city's community media. Check out the pics from the launch at our SYN Facebook page.

SYN is joining forces with the Reclink Community Cup to present the Free Kick competition - if you're in a young and emerging band with members under the age of 30, enter the Free Kick competition to win a chance to perform at the Reclink Community Cup!
 
Entries close Sunday April 24th. 

Nine Melbourne community radio stations (including SYN!) will make their digital radio debut on Thursday April 14. For the first time all nine stations will simultaneously broadcast side-by-side live from Federation Square to commemorate this historic occasion.
 
Come down to The Atrium at Fed Square from 11am-12pm on April 14 to celebrate the launch of digital radio with us or tune in to SYN on your digital radio or 90.7 FM.

The most exciting date on Melbourne’s music community calendar – the Reclink Community Cup, returns in all its glory to its new spiritual home at Elsternwick Park on Sunday June 26, 2011.
 
Again, SYN will be running the Free Kick band competition with the Cup - stay tuned for info soon.

Each year SYN recognises the fantastic content and hard work from our volunteers with the SYN Awards.

Finalists have just been announced so head on over to the SYN awards page to see if your favourite show made it!

The SYN Awards will be held at BMW Edge on March 1st - you can reserve a ticket via info@syn.org.au

Last November at SYN we held a census to gather information about our radio broadcasters and programs – a bit of a “health check” of our radio programs.
 
Over the period of a week, all programs filled out a comprehensive survey about their show’s content, their music, the technology they used to produce content and their skills.

There were some cool stats that emerged from the census responses, and some which indicated more work was needed...