Sea FM (2CFM)
City of license	Central Coast, New South Wales
Broadcast area	Central Coast, Newcastle, Northern Sydney
Slogan	The Central Coast's Hit Music Station, Livin on the Coast, Lovin the Hits.
Frequency	101.3 MHz FM
Format	Pop, Modern Rock, R'n'B
Callsign meaning	2 = New South Wales, CFM = Central Coast FM
Former callsigns	Coast Rock FM, FM 101.3
Owner	Macquarie Southern Cross Media
Webcast	medinalia.com/play/2CFM_101.3_Sea_FM
Website	theradio.com.au

101.3 Sea FM (call sign: 2CFM) is an Australian radio station located on the New South Wales Central Coast, part of the Macquarie Southern Cross Media Hit Music Network. Sea FM broadcasts from the Central Coast Media Centre on Henry Parry Drive, in Gosford, along with 2GO FM, a Macquarie Southern Cross Media LocalWorks station. The station was known on air as Coast Rock FM until 1996. Sea FM also receive high ratings, in the 2009 Radio Survey, Sea FM was number 1 in the 21-39 age category, taking out more than half the audience.

[edit] The Station

Sea FM play Top 40 music generally from the past two decades. They also showcase popular new music, and get listeners to give feedback via the web promotion 'Rate the Hits'.

The station uses the RCS NexGen digital audio playout system when on air, Pro Tools and Adobe Audition for Production, and Music Master for Scheduling. Sea FM, like most commercial radio stations, only use CD players for back-up.

Sea FM has been on the Central Coast for over 19 years, trading as either 'Sea FM', or formerly 'Coast Rock FM'. ^[1]

The station is networked between 4pm and 12am from 90.9 Sea FM, on the Gold Coast. This station acts as the Sea FM network hub. Broadcasting between 12am and 5am is conducted from Star FM in Albury.

[edit] Weekday Programming as of December 2009

[edit] Saturday Programming as of December 2009

[edit] Sunday Programming as of December 2009

[edit] Fill-ins/Other Announcers

Browney and Billy Humphries are the stations main fill-in announcers. Paddy and Ciel are on leave for three weeks beginning 21st December 2009. Shayne Sinclair is filling in. A new Benchwarmers team, Adam and Joe, start on the radio station on January 11.

[edit] Notable Former Announcers

• Mike Christian - Was Afternoon Announcer until September 2008, now afternoons announcer on Austereo's Melbourne station, Fox FM
• Rachel "Rach" Corbett - Was Breakfast Announcer with Paddy and Ciel until 2006, and has also worked on Austereo's Hot 30. Now with Paul Murray on Triple M networked night show.
• "Wilko" - Was afternoon announcer before Nollsy took over in 2006, now voice of 2GO.
• Elle Bowles - was part time announcer in 2005, now working on Breakfast radio in Nowra.

[edit] Key Staff

[edit] Programming

• Program Director: Allan Cameron
• Music Director: Shayne Sinclair

[edit] News

• News Director: Troy Carey
• Newsreaders: Justine Lowrance, Troy Carey

[edit] Promotions

• Marketing Manager: Sarah Ferman
• Promotional Car "Sea Cruiser" Drivers: Iggy, Bree, Kingy and Jaben.

[edit] Production

• Image Producer: Dan King
• Image Producer: Shayne Sinclair

[edit] Technical

• Engineer: John 'JP' Pearce

[edit] References

1. ^ http://theradio.com.au/content.aspx?PageID=690&Station=SEA_101.3FM_Central%20Coast

[edit] External links

• [1] - Sea FM official Portal Website
• [2] - Sea FM Twitter