Expansion
In the twelve months following March 2001 a rapid expansion began, seeing the number of on-air relay stations triple from around 30 to 90. Also in April 2001, UCB Australia introduced Australia's first nation-wide news service from a Christian perspective - UCB News. UCB News is heard across the Vision Radio Network, as well as being accessed by a growing number of community stations who don't have the resources to produce their own news content.
During 2003 UCB had opportunity to secure its first high powered open narrowcast licences.
The network quickly reached 150 relay stations by the end of 2003. In the following year its first foray into AM radio sites in Shepparton, Bunbury and Kalgoorlie began. Just prior to Christmas 2004 a further 17 High Powered licences were secured to be on air the following year.
Vision's 200th relay station was powered up on Australia Day 2005 at the Central Australian town of Yulara - right next to Uluru (Ayers Rock). Yarrawonga in Victoria had the honour of station number 300 in late 2007 and a significant development occurred in late 2008 with the acquisition of a medium powered AM service in Melbourne (1611AM). Throughout 2009 and 2010 Vision has continued to expand its reach with, on average, a new station every week. Station number 400 went to air late in 2009 at Lockhart in NSW. In August 2011, Vision's 500th station was installed in the Queensland community of Murphy's Creek.
Vision's catchcry is "Connecting Faith to Life" and does this through talk and music based programming aimed at "unpacking" what it means to follow Jesus Christ in an understandable way.
Vision has several sister ministry arms (all operated by UCB Australia), including Australia's most popular daily devotionals "The Word for Today" and "word4U2day" as well as a prayer ministry "PrayForMe", and the teaching resources ministry of "UCB Direct".
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