Music Diary Submissions

A valuable tool for promoting your event, the 4MBS Music Diary reaches the people you need to make your event a success - lovers of classical music. With regular, on-air readings backed up by a comprehensive listing on the 4MBS web site, the 4MBS Music Diary has become a popular way for music lovers to get information about what's happening in and around Brisbane. Subsidised by 4MBS as a community broadcaster - part of its continuing support for local musicians & promoters and their events - the 4MBS Music Diary offers effective publicity for a significantly small fraction of normal publicity costs with a number of registration levels available.

When you can hear the Music Diary On-Air . . .

Readings of the 4MBS Music can be heard 18 times a week in accordance with the schedule below.

Weekdays (incl Public Holidays)
7.30 am during Daybreak Classics
1.00 pm following The Village Music Hour
5.30 pm during Drivetime Classics

Saturday*
1.00 pm following Midday Music

Sunday
7.30 am during Daybreak Classics
1.00 pm
* Events listed in the Music Diary might also be heard in Howard
Ainsworth's Music for Brisbane Diary at 7.30 am.

Summary of Registration Levels Available...

Multiple Event Registration $175 (or $125) per year (max 10 events)
Single Event Registration $65 (or $45) per event
Free Registration No Charge
Special Registration for 4MBS Ticketing Clients No Charge

Multiple Event Registrations

Two levels of registration are available, both valid for up to 10 individual events in a single year from the date of registration. The higher of these two levels recognises the value of promotion through the 4MBS website - a place many people are looking these days to find events of interest. The longer your event is on the 4MBS website, the better chance there is for people to notice it and make plans to go to it. Costs and benefits are shown below.

Cost Live On-Air Publicity 4MBS Website Publicity
$175 Up to one week prior to event Up to four weeks prior to event
$125 Up to one week prior to event Up to one week prior to event

Single Event Registrations

As with the multiple event registrations, two levels of registration are available for the promotion of just a single, one-off event. The higher of these two levels recognises the value of promotion through the 4MBS website - a place many people are looking these days to find events of interest. The longer your event is on the 4MBS website, the better chance there is for people to notice it and make plans to go to it. It should be noted that, for Music Diary registration purposes, a single event is an event which involves just one performance or more than one performance occurring on the same day at the same venue.

Annual Cost Live On-Air Publicity 4MBS Website Publiciy
$65 Up to one week prior to event Up to four weeks prior to event
$45 Up to one week prior to event Up to one week prior to event

Free Registrations

Subject to a number of conditions (see below), this category would be ideal for smaller organisations wishing to use the 4MBS Music Diary service without cost.

Cost Live On-Air Publicity 4MBS Website Publicity
Nil Up to one day prior to event Up to one day prior to event

Special Registrations for 4MBS Ticketing Clients

Cost Live On-Air Publicity 4MBS Website Publicity
Nil Up to one week prior to event Up to one week prior to event

Submitting Details for the Music Diary

How to get your details to 4MBS
By fax (Attn: Music Diary) to . . . 3847 2773
By email to . . . musicdiary@4mbs.com.au

To make sure your details gets through to the right person, information for the Music Diary cannot be accepted by 'phone.

What to Submit

Please do not submit brochures, press releases or other general publicity material as time is not always available for wading through these items to find the relevant details. Please read notices currently listed in the Music Diary and submit material in that format.

Information submitted should clearly indicate the following . . .

Event/Performance date, starting time, venue details (include full street address), performers (and a description eg, tenor, soprano, pianist, cello, etc) program details (ie, what is being performed including full and complete descriptions of items to be included) ticket price(s) (including concessions if applicable), booking details with telephone number. 4MBS reserves the right to edit information submitted. Not all such information will necessarily be included in a listing.

It should be noted that items in the Music Diary are notices only and not advertisements.

There are no deadlines for the submission of information which is processed virtually as soon as it is received. It is left to the person submitting the information to ensure it reaches us in time.

Amending Music Diary details

Amendments or corrections should be sent to us by either of the above two ways only to ensure they are appropriately actioned.

General Conditions

Free Registrations

The free Music Diary Registration is subject to availability of on-air time and is not available for events for which the highest single admission price exceeds $24.

Single Event Registrations

A single event is an event which occurs once only. The same type of event which is repeated on one or more following days is not a single event. Hence, a chamber music concert which is presented on (say) a Saturday evening with no additional performances is a single event. Should the same concert be repeated the following night, it becomes a separate event for Music Diary purposes and a single event registration would apply to just the one of the nights only. The same concert repeated over a number of days is a number of single events. An exception applies if the same concert is performed at the same venue a number of times on the one day. Thus, a concert which is presented in the afternoon and, again, the same evening in the same venue can be regarded as a single event for Music Diary purposes.

Nature of Events

All events promoted through the 4MBS Music Diary must be of a classical music & entertainment nature. Works from popular musicals (eg, Rodgers & Hammerstein), folk music, jazz, world music, new-age music, rock music, etc, cannot be included in the Music Diary unless the event also contains one or more significant classical music works. Events which are primarily ceremonial in nature and not intended solely for entertainment should not be submitted for inclusion in the Music Diary.

Images and Links to Other Sites

These are not part of the normal Music Diary service but are sometimes added as a free bonus. Consequently, 4MBS reserves the right to determine the suitability or otherwise of images submitted. Similarly, the inclusion of links to other sites is at the discretion of 4MBS. Generally, links will be made only for events offering online bookings but not in cases involving booking agencies operating in competition to the 4MBS Ticketing Service. Online booking links will not be accepted in cases when no telephone number is supplied.

Other Conditions

Persons submitting information for inclusion in the Music Diary acknowledge that 4MBS reserves the right to edit, amend or reject any such material.

While every effort will be made to publicise events submitted within the usual Music Diary guidelines, no absolute guarantee of inclusion can be given and no monetary compensation can be offered for the non inclusion of an event. No liability shall vest with 4MBS for any loss or damages incurred by any person arising from information publicised through the Music Diary.

Further Information

Should you require and additional information about the 4MBS Music Diary or if you'd like to know more about how the 4MBS Ticketing Service can handle bookings for your next event, please call 4MBS during normal business hours, Monday to Friday, on 3847 1717 or send an email to . . . musicdiary@4mbs.com.au