Editing 2SER (section)

==History==
On 1 October 1979 2SER<ref>{{Cite web |title=2SER {{!}} The Dictionary of Sydney |url=https://dictionaryofsydney.org/organisation/2ser |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=dictionaryofsydney.org}}</ref> was opened by the Federal Minister for Education, Senator [[John Carrick (Australian politician)|John Carrick]].<ref name=2SERsite>{{cite web|title=The SER Story |work=2SER FM 107.3 Official Website |publisher=2SER FM 107.3 |date=2008 |url=http://www.2ser.com/about/story |access-date=2008-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209142050/http://www.2ser.com/about/story |archive-date=9 February 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In the mid-1990s the station expanded its programming to emphasise [[Alternative dance|underground dance music]]{{specify|date=August 2023|reason=Underground dance music or Underground dance?}}. This caused friction within the station but 2SER organised a series of highly lucrative fund raising events called Freaky Loops<ref>{{Cite web |title=(December 1997 - February 1998) |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1718620206/view |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=Trove |language=en}}</ref> in association with Sydney promoters such as Cryogenesis, [[Clan Analogue]], Club Kooky and [[Elefant Traks]] which sustained the move to a new musical format for several years until 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Snarl Heavy Industries {{!}} Home of Sub Bass Snarl » Freaky Loops (1996-2001) |url=https://www.snarl.org/v3/?page_id=20 |access-date=2024-11-09}}</ref>

The station worked on improving its brand across the 2003-2005 period, incorporating a new logo, while the station's online presence and content experience was also redesigned.

In late 2004, the station was faced with a projected budget shortfall of up to $100,000 that financial year. Management addressed the situation by reducing the number of paid staff, putting forward proposals to scale down the use of its studio at Macquarie University and attempting to cater for a slightly older audience. These ideas were met with frustration from some volunteers.<ref>{{cite news|last=Jave|first=Sue|date=8 December 2004|title=Money matters: 2SER relaunch plans|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|location=Sydney, Australia|publisher=Nine Entertainment Co. Pty Ltd|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/money-matters-2ser-relaunch-plans-20041208-gdk9qr.html}}</ref> Internal activism resulted in a softening of policy and in early 2005, the new program grid was launched. Despite the controversy in its lead-up, it proved to be a simple reshuffle of the existing grid rather than a dramatic overhaul.

From the late 2000s and into the 2010s, 2SER has continued to expand its offerings across broadcast and digital, as well as with podcasting. It has won international awards for its collaborations, including a Silver Radio Prize at the [[New York Festivals|New York Festivals Radio Awards]] for History Lab (with Impact Studios).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Congratulations to the History Lab Podcast for winning the Silver Radio Prize – The Australian Historical Association |date=25 June 2019 |url=https://theaha.org.au/congratulations-to-the-history-lab-podcast-for-winning-the-silver-radio-prize/ |access-date=2023-06-26 |language=en-AU}}</ref> 

The station celebrated its 40th anniversary in October 2019 with a podcast series,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Forty Years of 2SER clips |url=https://omny.fm/shows/forty-years-of-2ser |access-date=2023-06-26 |website=omny.fm |language=en}}</ref> exhibition<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-16 |title=2SER wants to hear from its former staff and volunteers |url=https://www.cbaa.org.au/article/2ser-wants-hear-its-former-staff-and-volunteers |access-date=2023-06-26 |website=Community Broadcasting Association of Australia |language=en}}</ref> and book, ''An Incomplete History of Community Radio: 2SER's 46 Boxes of Stuff.''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-11-09 |title=Community radio history book out now |url=https://www.cbaa.org.au/article/community-radio-history-book-out-now |access-date=2023-06-26 |website=Community Broadcasting Association of Australia |language=en}}</ref>  The station's long-term publication, Listening Post,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Listening post |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1447219380 |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=Trove |language=en}}</ref> was also digitised in full and placed in the Australian open access archive [[Trove]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Long time listener |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/blog/2020/11/17/long-time-listener |access-date=2023-06-26 |website=Trove |language=en}}</ref> The station also regularly runs live events like the acclaimed.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Shetty |first=Kobi |title=2SER In Your Hood |url=https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Hansard/Pages/HansardResult.aspx#/docid/HANSARD-1323879322-149919 |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=Parliament of New South Wales}}</ref> In Your Hood series supported by the [[Inner West Council]] and Live@2SER performance series based on [[Tiny Desk|NPR's Tiny Desk]]. [[Kobi Shetty]] mentioned the February 2025 event in her address to [[Parliament of New South Wales|NSW Parliament]] as an example of "vital community work" performed by the station.<ref name=":1" />  

Today it runs out of [[University of Technology Sydney]] and [[Macquarie University]].