After 16 years on air, Lithgow's community radio station EZYFM officially had its last broadcast on Monday, October 14.
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The station, which was run predominately by four volunteers including local Wes Anderson, had to make the difficult decision not to renew its broadcasting licence.
"I can't say I'm happy about the decision, I'm very sad it's happened, but you have to be realistic; for us to continue we needed volunteers and we just weren't getting them," Mr Anderson said.
"At the end between the four of us it was just too much, when we first started everyone was keen and excited about it, but the town is different now to what it was then," he said.
Mr Anderson said they tried advertising on air and spoke at multiple functions to try and drum up participation but had no luck in gaining volunteers.
"Quite frankly it can't perpetuate itself so that's where it's at," he said.
The station, which ran 24 hours a day, established itself as easy listening music for senior citizens.
"It was difficult to get community feedback, we weren't getting many emails or calls, and to renew a licence you have to prove you are providing a service to the community," he said.
Mr Anderson would come in to the station five days a week for two to three hours a day helping to produce the programs.
"All the programs we produced ourselves which is a fairly big commitment," he said.
Mr Anderson said that the station had a pretty loyal following, with a large percentage of lady listeners.
"I'd been told on multiple occasions that several ladies listened or had it on in the background because their husbands had passed and they enjoyed our company, so I think that is where we will be missed the most," he said.
According to Mr Anderson the station had a 99 year lease on music from Bonneville Broadcasting, which included instrumental pop songs as well as Australian content.
"The music provided from that library can only be played on this station so we probably won't hear that music ever again which is a shame," he said.
Mr Anderson, who is taking his first holiday in at least two years, said the group would have to come back and decide on what to do with their equipment.
"We can probably sell some of it, can donate other bits and pieces, and we will have to work out what to do with our left over proceeds,"he said.
"We never had these plans in place because we didn't think we would end up in this situation."
Despite some of the negative aspects surrounding the stations closure Mr Anderson said he was going to focus on the positives of the situation.
"We never had one complaint while on air, not one," he said.
"Who can say they have run a radio station for 16 years and been successful at it?"
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