Programs on Radio Adelaide are provided by volunteers and also by access groups who pay for on air time.

[5] In 1970, Kenneth Stirling, an accountant who worked for a mining company, anonymously donated $100,000 to the University of Adelaide to establish an educational community radio station.

It was an idea being developed by key people at the University interested in broadening access to education, but it was also an innovative and creative leap, as there were not any such stations in Australia.

[6] "On June 28th 1972, Radio VL-5UV began broadcasting, the first licensed community station to go to air in Australia....5UV was initially granted a frequency of 1630 kHz - part of the spectrum reserved for fixed and mobile services, licensed under the Wireless and Telegraphy Act, not the Broadcasting and Television Act.

"[7]In 1972, the newly created 5UV radio station began broadcasting in small rooms under the former Hughes Plaza, now the Hub Central, on the University of Adelaide campus.

[9][10] In December 2003, following 18 months of planning and fundraising, Radio Adelaide launched its new antenna to take maximum advantage of its 101.5 FM frequency.

In June 2015, the University of Adelaide sold the station's studios at 228 North Terrace and the staff and volunteers were told to move by mid 2016.

Other board members included lawyer Andrea Michaels, and station representatives Charlotte Bedford and Nikki Marcel.

Radio Adelaide's lawyer Andrea Michaels sent a legal notice to the ABC and submitted a trademark application to secure the stand-alone name 'Radio Adelaide' as the radio station already had claims to the name as a registered trademark and under common law.

The ACMA was satisfied with the written assurance from the University of Adelaide and the EBA to develop and provide a community consultation strategy and structured engagement programme to be implemented by 1 March 2017.

Student Radio Directors[41] 2010 Casey Briggs and Chrissy Kavanagh 2011 Casey Briggs, Timothy Molineux and Sebastian Tonkin 2012 Timothy Molineux, Taherah Tahmasebi and Joel Parsons 2013 Kate Drinkwater, Bernard Evans and Luke Eygenraam 2014 Galen Cuthbertson and Jennifer Nguyen [42] 2015 Matthew Bell, Wang Yang (part-year) and Isabella Xu (part-year) 2016 Sophie Atkinson and Rob Lawry Flinders University Student Radio (FUSR) was broadcast on Radio Adelaide from 1997 to 2006, until funding was withdrawn following voluntary student unionism.

[4][43] FUSR was a 3-hour timeslot produced in a number of formats: comedy, variety, punk, metal, talkback, political discussion, sports, and even radio plays.