CBF Specialist Show Funding Guidelines

A program must meet the following conditions:

it is being broadcast regularly (weekly, fortnightly or monthly) on or before the grant submission date. A program that ceases part way through the funding period or is off air for any significant length of time during the period may receive part funding. A program that starts after the grant submission closing date will not be funded until the following round.
it is locally produced and focuses on local material (which can include contemporary Australian music) and is not a re-presentation of a program already broadcast either on any analogue or digital service.
it serves the needs of a defined local ethnic community
it provides settlement assistance, news, information, and/or cultural maintenance and development for the local ethnic language/cultural community
it has at least 50% spoken content
any religious content is less than 25% of the spoken word content
it is broadcast between 6 am and 1 am
it meets the particular conditions of the individual program category ie. Ethnic, Multicultural, Ethnic Youth or Multicultural Youth
it complies with standards of the Australian Communications and Media Authority and sector Codes of Practice