Newly established ‘Republic of Amrap’ disappears entirely from social media and Amrap website

All online trace of The Republic of Amrap, established by the Amrap team earlier in January after they announced they’d departed the offices and management of the Community Broadcast Assocation of Australia (CBAA), has disappeared.

At the time, Amrap manager Chris Johnson explained that it was “untenable” to keep performing the duties of the organisation under the management of the CBAA.

He said that due to restructuring by the CBAA, increasingly shared resources would see Amrap continue to lose vital funding, and as a result, Amrap had established itself the ’Republic’.

Amrap then put the callout for support to help officially remove it from the CBAA, but now all trace of The Republic of Amrap appears to have disappeared, including their new website and the official Amrap Facebook page (including a video explaining their departure from the CBAA).

Amrap has also not submitted any of its weekly charts to TMN for the past two weeks running, or its weekly chart wrap since the end of 2017.

TMN has reached out to both Amrap and the CBAA for comment.

"Over the years, Amrap has become an important tool (and one of the best) available in this country when it comes to delivering independent music to community radio station presenters," said CBAA in a statement upon the announcement of The Republic of Amrap.

“We cannot afford to lose them, not in the current climate of music in this land.”

"We are in a consultation phase of a review aimed at reducing administrative overheads, increasing collaboration and maximising outcomes for our stakeholders," the CBAA added in a later statement.

“The goals of the review are specific and not intended to impact the availability of CBAA services for musicians and stations."

"The information shared publicly refers to a draft future proposed model made available to all staff in late 2017 as part of ongoing consultation.”