RECENT BLOG POSTS
Welcome to JOY’s Summer Season 2025-26
JOY 94.9 is thrilled to announce the launch of this year’s Summer Season schedule, running from Monday 8 December 2025 to Sunday 1 February 2026. It’s summer, and with that…
Sunday Arts Magazine Art Exhibition Brings Queer Creativity to St Kilda
This November, JOY celebrates the colourful intersection of community and creativity with the first-ever Sunday Arts Magazine Art Exhibition, featuring 12 outstanding artists at Dawn & Mable’s Wine Bar on…
Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2025: Searching for Queer Utopias
The Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) returns for its 35th Anniversary from 13–23 November, inviting audiences to join the search for Queer Utopias. Queer Utopia is a multiplicity of spaces, happenings,…
JOY Rainbow Sessions welcomes BEKS as first ever headliner
JOY Rainbow Sessions is JOY’s brand new initiative to celebrate and elevate LGBTQIA+ artists, bringing you front and centre with the most exciting out-and-proud acts in the country. A series…
Celebrating Inclusion Through Sport: Sport with Pride and Joy Exhibition Opens at the Victorian Pride Centre
The Victorian Pride Centre came alive on opening night of the Sport with Pride and Joy exhibition, a landmark celebration of the powerful role sport plays in achieving inclusion and visibility for…
JOY celebrates Wear it Purple Day 2025
Australia’s LGBTQIA+ radio station and community media organisation, JOY Media, are proudly celebrating Wear It Purple Day. Celebrated each year on the last Friday in August, Wear It Purple…
Community Forum on Hookup App Safety
On a recent episode of Hide and Seek, host Tim Little sat down with Thorne Harbour Health’s Community Engagement Manager and JOY presenter Cal Hawk, along with community advocate Odus…
JOY 94.9 Unveils Exciting New Season 2 Lineup: Fresh Shows, Familiar Voices, and Unmissable Stories
JOY 94.9 is thrilled to announce the launch of its brand-new Season 2 schedule, running from July 7 to December 7, 2025. With four brand new shows and the return…
RECENT PODCASTS
Activism and the Early HIV/AIDS Response with Ian Hunter MLC
Cal talks with South Australian Legislative Council Member Ian Hunter about the murder of George Duncan that ignited South Australia’s push to decriminalise male homosexuality in 1975. Ian walks us through…
QNN – News and Sport Bulletin No 51, 2025
QNN provides communities across the country with the latest in local, national and international LGBTQIA+ news: DUP accused of stalling trans hate crime protections, Perth’s queer nightclub, Connections, celebrates 50…
Episode 1 – FOSTER care to listen
Meet two of our hosts, Olivia and William, who share their journeys from the get-go. We chat entry into care, good vs. bad carers, respite, changing placements, adjusting to new…
Out Takes celebrates 10 years on air!
The year was 2016 and two weeks out from Christmas, a new show started on JOY that promised to bring you the best in queer film and television every week……
Up To Date: The Game Awards 2025
Join Elliot, Luke, Charlie, and Edie in this episode of Checkpoint on JOY where they talk about the 2025 Game Awards. Catch the latest episode on Spotify: Giving…
Hot Bread – Episode 22: ‘Brand New Summer’ edition 6 December 2025
A little note from Little Jase, your Hot Bread Presenter. Tonight is the final show for this season of Hot Bread. But never fear, because Hot Bread begins its new…
Spring cleaning – Show #376 (part 2), 23 November 2025
In the second hour of the show, Katie rhapsodises about the new albums by Narrm-based singer-songwriter Stella Donnelly and English musical genius Jacob Collier, and plays tunes that fit into…
Everything is new again – Show #376 (part 1), 23 November 2025
In the first hour of today’s Miss Chatelaine, friend-of-the-show Emily Barker sings about letting go of a relationship, Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith tells us about the angel on his shoulder,…
Sunday Arts Magazine: Danielle Whitfield – December 14th, 2025
The Sunday Arts Magazine team chats about NGV’s Westwood/Kawakubo exhibition, with curator Danielle Whitfield.
Sunday Arts Magazine: Sam Strong – December 14th, 2025
The Sunday Arts Magazine team chats with creative director Sam Strong about Gasworks’ 2026 season.
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