ABC Local Radio

ABC Local Radio

Broadcast area	Australien - AM/FM & Internet
Frequency	Variable
Programmierung
Format	Talk
Ownership
Owner	Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Links
Website	abc.net.au/local/

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 using terrestrial transmission, and covers it completely using satellites. 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).

ABC Coast FM (Radio 4SCR) in southern Queensland and northern NSW has a slightly different format to the other ABC Local Radio stations. They have less talk and more music, including simulcasts of DiG Radio and DiG Jazz.

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 National emerged from Radio 2 and Radio 3 dropped its Radio 2 content with Radio 1 becoming ABC Metro Radio and Radio 3 becoming ABC Regional Radio. The Regional Radio stations provided local programming in breakfast and drive but networked common Local Radio content for most of their broadcasting hours. Some different, local market formats emerged, including the Darwin Metro 8DDD, FM105.7 [1] and Gold Coast Regional, ABC Coast FM (4SCR), 91.7. Up until the mid 1990s, the majority of the local radio stations identified on-air as (frequency) (callsign). In the 1990's, a different convention was used, generally as 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 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.

News bulletins

ABC Local Radio will air the carries news bulletins produced by ABC News & Current Affairs. from 2009 the radio news bulletins on Local Radio (except Radio National, ABC Classic FM, Triple J, & Radio Australia) are broadcast starts at 5:30, on the hour from 6am to 7pm weekdays & then from 6am to 12pm weekends (except at 3pm to 6pm Saturdays or 5pm to 6pm Sundays), other than an extended 10-minute bulletin at 7:00am on ABC Radio.

Music

ABC Local Radio brings you the best of music plays pop, rock, blues, country, soul, jazz, Contemporary R&B, Hip Hop/Rap, & more. a youth music on ABC Local has carried a youth network Triple J.

Stations

ABC Riverina Studios in Wagga Wagga

Main article: List of ABC radio stations § Local Radio

There are sixty ABC Local Radio stations, including 51 regional stations and 9 metropolitan stations. The metropolitan stations 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)
• 1233 ABC Newcastle (2NC)

See also

• Radio National
• Radio Australia
• Timeline of Australian radio

External links

• ABC Local Radio
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation