{"id":669789,"date":"2026-05-14T05:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669789\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T05:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:49:11","slug":"3apl-apple-98-5fm-to-close-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669789\/","title":{"rendered":"3APL Apple 98.5fm to close down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-4927.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>After nearly 40 years on-air, Victorian community radio station 3APL Apple 98.5fm is closing down.<\/p>\n<p>The station \u2013 a longtime listening staple of the local Bacchus Marsh community \u2013 has confirmed via its Facebook page that it will cease broadcasting on Sunday, July 5th.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1002\" height=\"797\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-4928.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-142454\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile it is sad that the station is wrapping up, we are proud of all that \u2018The Voice Of The Valley\u2019 has accomplished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to thank all the volunteers, members, announcers, Committee members, technical people, sponsors, guests, Shire Council members and community groups who have been involved with the radio station over the decades. And we would especially like to thank the group of visionaries who founded \u2018Bacchus Marsh Community Access Radio\u2019 in the mid-80s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As reported by our sister publication <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/radioinfo.com.au\/news\/the-voice-of-moorabool-apple-98-5fm-to-close\/\">Radioinfo,<\/a> the station\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apple985fm.com.au\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">November 2025 AGM<\/a>\u00a0spoke to\u00a0\u2018shaky finances\u2019\u00a0and few new volunteers coming through to fill vacancies on air and behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>CBAA\u00a0Head of Advocacy and Communications\u00a0Reece Kinanne said \u201cWe are saddened to hear of Apple FM\u2019s closure and the loss of a local media outlet for the growing community of Bacchus Marsh.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Images: Facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After nearly 40 years on-air, Victorian community radio station 3APL Apple 98.5fm is closing down. The station \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[323411,323412,64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-669789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-3apl","tag-apple-98-5fm","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}