What does the future hold for 3MBS?

It will continue to be about the music! 3MBS will do all it can to promote classical music through broadcasting. It will support local musicians and classical music experiences such as live performances, music education, understanding and appreciation.

Volunteers and staff at the station have worked hard to develop the premises so that they are a safe, clean and comfortable place for everyone to work. As a community station, it is important that anyone who shares the objectives of the station has the opportunity to contribute to its development through active participation in its operation and decision making. 3MBS hopes to involve more people in its operations as the range of activities at the station grow.

There are a number of goals that the station is keen to achieve in the future. It will utilise new technologies to enhance listeners' enjoyment of music. This will include internet streaming, audio on demand, digital transmission and podcasting. These technologies will not change the music. However, they will allow listeners to hear the music of the highest possible quality at a time and place of their choosing.

3MBS will partner more organisations to bring enhanced services to its listeners. These will include ticketing services, music-based tourism, broadcasts of the best possible live performances and the highest quality recordings. 3MBS may partner other radio stations in Melbourne to produce, for example, a jazz station to complement and preserve a classical music service.

As technology develops, the station will become much more than a radio station. With one of the best collections of recordings available and with broadcasting at the core, 3MBS will develop moving picture capacity that will bring alive its database. It will be a recording studio, a marketing vehicle, a market for music-related products such as CDs, DVDs, music appreciation courses, books and information. Chat rooms and other forms of interaction will be the new shape of the station in the future. The music of Mozart will still be alive in 30 years and 3MBS will be part of it.