2SER
Australian radio station
2SER (also known as Sydney Educational Radio) is a not-for-profit radio station in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, broadcasting on the frequency 107.3 FM. It is operated by Sydney Educational Broadcasting Ltd, and funded by the University of Technology Sydney. It is a member of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. The station has a metro-wide license and broadcasts a mix of programming styles — specialist music, general magazines, specialist talks and podcasts.
Programming
2SER broadcasts a wide range of music and talk shows. Talk show topics include science, current affairs, health, conservation, publishing, gender and queer culture, music, arts and theatre. Music genres include experimental, country, metal, pop and spatial audio. In 2024 station won a Community Broadcasting Association Australia Award for Excellents in Australian Music, sponsored by APRA AMCOS.
Some programs have been on air for more than 40 years, including Back To Funk, Static and The Phantom Dancer. Gaywaves, Sydney's first LGBTQIA+ program, aired from November 1979 to 2005. Gaywaves returned to air in 2022 after 17 years.
The station is also one of few media outlets that has a special program for prisoners, Jailbreak.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “2SER” as australian radio station. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as australian radio station. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4633219. Authority coordinates are -33.884, 151.202. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024, 1979, 2005 and 2022.
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This entry incorporates text from “2SER” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.