ABC Local Radio
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| ABC Local Radio | |
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| Broadcast area |  Australia - AM/FM & Internet |
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| Frequency | Variable |
| Format | Talk |
| Owner | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Website | abc.net.au/radio/localradio/ |
ABC Local Radio is a network of publicly owned radio stations in Australia, operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
ABC Local Radio broadcasts over most of the continent. Its content is an easy-listening mix of news, current affairs, talkback, entertainment, sport, music and local issues.
Depending on the time of day and the day of the week, programming can either be purely local (typically on weekday mornings), from the state or territory capital city ABC station, or broadcast on all ABC Local Radio services across the country (typically overnight and on weekends).
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[edit] History
Originally Local Radio was known internally as ABC Radio 1 in metropolitan regions and ABC Radio 3 in regional areas. Radio 1 was a largely local format while Radio 3 was more networked and included content from ABC Radio 2. In the 1980s, Radio 3 lost it's Radio 2 content, and Radio 1 became ABC Metro Radio and Radio 3 became ABC Regional Radio. The Regional Radio stations were repeaters of Metro Radio stations for most of their broadcasting hours.
Up until the mid 1990s, all these stations identified on-air as (frequency) (callsign). But from then on, many regional stations gained new names, such as "Oasis FM" in Mildura. [1]. A number of naming formats were used, generally ABC Radio (region) or (region) FM.
In 2000 these two almost identical networks became known as "ABC Local Radio". From this point all ABC Local Radio stations ceased to identify themselves according to their callsigns or other existing names, and instead use the format (frequency) ABC (region), or ABC (region) where there are multiple frequencies broadcasting the same service. However, as the callsigns were used continuously used for up to seventy years and are much shorter than the new names, many long-term listeners still use these callsigns to refer to ABC Local Radio stations.
[edit] List of ABC Local Radio stations
There are over fifty ABC Local Radio stations. Its capital city stations, including their callsigns, are:
- 702 ABC Sydney (2BL)
- 774 ABC Melbourne (3LO)
- 612 ABC Brisbane (4QR)
- 891 ABC Adelaide (5AN)
- 720 ABC Perth (6WF)
- 936 ABC Hobart (7ZR)
- 666 ABC Canberra (2CN)
- 105.7 ABC Darwin (8DDD)
ABC Local Radio stations in non-capital city areas include:
[edit] New South Wales
- 999 ABC Broken Hill - Broken Hill (2NB)
- 92.5 ABC Central Coast - Gosford (2BLT)
- ABC Central West - Orange (2CR)
- 97.3 ABC Illawarra - Wollongong (2ILA)
- ABC Mid North Coast - Port Macquarie (2KP)
- 1233 ABC Newcastle - Newcastle (2NC)
- ABC New England North West - Tamworth (2NU)
- ABC North Coast - Lismore (2NNR)
- ABC Riverina - Wagga Wagga (2RVR)
- ABC South East - Bega (2BA)
- ABC Upper Hunter - Muswellbrook (2UH)
- ABC Western Plains - Dubbo (2WPR)
[edit] Victoria
- 107.9 ABC Ballarat - Ballarat (3CRR)
- ABC Central Victoria - Bendigo(3CRR)
- ABC Gippsland - Sale (3GI) (3GLR)
- ABC Goulburn Murray - Wodonga (3MRR)
- ABC Mildura Swan Hill - Mildura (3MIL)
- 97.7 ABC Shepparton - Shepparton (3GVR)
- ABC South West Victoria - Warrnambool (3WL)
- ABC Western Victoria - Horsham (3WV)
[edit] Queensland
- ABC Capricornia - Rockhampton (4RK)
- 91.7 ABC Coast FM - Gold Coast (4ABC)
- 90.3 ABC Coast FM - Sunshine Coast (4SCR)
- ABC Far North - Cairns (4QCC)
- ABC North Queensland - Townsville (4QN)
- ABC North West Queensland - Mount Isa (4JK)
- ABC Southern Queensland - Toowoomba (4QS)
- ABC Tropical North - Mackay (4QAA)
- ABC Western Queensland - Longreach (4QL)
- ABC Wide Bay - Bundaberg (4QB)
[edit] South Australia
- ABC North and West SA - Port Pirie (5CK)
- ABC Riverland - Renmark (5MV)
- ABC South East SA - Mount Gambier (5MG)
- ABC West Coast SA - Port Lincoln (5LN)
[edit] Western Australia
- ABC Goldfields-Esperance - Kalgoorlie (6GF)
- ABC Great Southern - Wagin (6WA)
- ABC Kimberley - Broome (6BE)
- ABC Mid-West and Wheatbelt - Geraldton (6GN)
- ABC North West - Karratha (6KP)
- ABC South Coast - Albany (6AL)
- ABC South West - Bunbury (6BS)
[edit] Tasmania
- ABC Northern Tasmania (multiple frequencies now; originally just 711 kHz 7NT - Launceston)
[edit] Northern Territory
- 783 ABC Alice Springs - Alice Springs (8AL)
- ABC Darwin - Darwin
