be heard as far away as Uralla and Guyra. This limitation was appealed during the late 1990s and again in 2009. Both of these appeals were rejected by the ABA and ACMA respectively, even though the location of TuneFM's transmitter at the Newling Building in town restricts the station from being heard reliably on the main UNE campus. Whilst being a Narrowcast station, TuneFM is a full member of the CBAA, and voluntarily subscribes to the Community Broadcasters' Code of Practice. Until 2006, the station was funded by the UNE Students' Association (UNESA) through compulsory student union fees. Following the introduction of voluntary student unionism, the administration of the station was transferred to Services UNE Ltd in February 2006 prior to a Special General Meeting of the Students' Association that wound up that association. On 11 July 2006, the university announced a funding package for Services UNE Ltd and Sport UNE to ensure that a variety of non-academic services, including TuneFM, could be maintained on campus. In late 2008 the station was allocated over $600,000 from both the Federal Government and the University of New England in order to build new studios and facilities. These grants were awarded on the provision that TuneFM's new facilities could be utilised as a part of a proposed School of Rural Media and Communications at the University of New England. TuneFM became the focus of national attention during the 2010 Federal Election, after TUNE's Operations Manager Kate Doak released audio from the station's archives of Opposition Leader Tony Abbott from 1979. The audio was recorded for the "Campuswide" current affairs program during a conference at the University of New England, which Mr Abbott attended during his tenure as the President of the University of Sydney's Student Association. The story was picked up by the Sydney Morning Herald and remained in the Headlines section of their website for over three days during the election campaign, under the name of "The Tiny Tony Tapes". At the commencement of 2014 the management of TuneFM was handed back over to the re-established UNESA. Staff Brian Windsor (Deceased) (Station Manager) - 1976 Lance E Jones (Station Manager) - 1977-78 (Production Manager) - 1979-1980 Tony Johnson (Station Manager) - 1979-1980 Jim Vasey (Station Manager) - 1981 Simon Smith (Station Manager) - 1982 Naomi Nicholson (Record Librarian) - 1982-1983 Andrew Plumbly (Station Manager) 1984-1986 Shaun Sykes (Record Librarian) - 1985 Anna