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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…
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FNL – Favourite songs from your teenage years
… where, if listeners are honest, ha ha, you can guess their age now. (David admits to being old!) David is Sue-less so – more music, less madness. Some great…
T-cell-ebrating Progress: HIV, Immunity & Hope
HIV targets the very immune cells meant to protect us. But science – and community – keep fighting back. This World AIDS Day, Dr Cat and Dr Jen Juno chat…
The Geminii’s Join Monday Brekky
The Geminii’s Join Monday Brekky with a brand new song and a lot of laughs. Hailing from Meanjin Brisbane they truly are your favourite star sign in music form.
Bonus Ep – JOY CEO Paul joins Joss and Wayne for JOY’s 32nd Anniversary
Bonus Ep – JOY CEO Paul Scott Williams joins Joss and Wayne for JOY’s 32nd Anniversary to celebrate on air and commemorate those we’ve lost to HIV/AIDS on world AIDS…
AFLW Grand Finals with Fi Newton
This week’s Footy Fiddle Faddle wraps up the Womens AFL season. Join Joss and Wayne with Fiona Newton to hear the season wrap up and highlights.
What was Big Bi+ Questions (2025)?
What a BIG (Bi+ Questions) year it’s been! To celebrate the end of our first season, the entire Big Bi+ Questions crew got together to reminisce and look-back on the…
Caught Up BLOG + PODCAST 951
Welcome to another episode of A Touch Of Pink, your one-stop shop for rainbow pop. As usual, all tracks tonight have rainbow content. Tune in this Saturday on JOY 94.9…
Maybe This Time BLOG + PODCAST 950
Welcome to another episode of A Touch Of Pink, your one-stop shop for rainbow pop. As usual, all tracks tonight have rainbow content. Tune in this Saturday on JOY 94.9…
Mob+ – Support for First Nations communities living with HIV
We’re joined by Bruce Fitzgerald, a proud member of Mob+, a unique group for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with HIV, supported through the Thorne Harbour Positive Living…
Hot Bread – Episode 21: Goin’ Country edition 29 November 2025
Hot bread is your weekly, hour long floor filler show, from the late 80’s, 90’s to the mid 2000’s. In addition a few different Goin’ Country’ beats thrown in for…
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