16-589: ABC Western Queensland is an ABC Local Radio station based in Longreach broadcasting to the Central West , South West and Gulf regions of Queensland . It covers a wide area stretching as far as the towns of Charleville , Winton and Birdsville . The station began broadcasting as 4QL in 1947 on 690 AM, originally as a relay of the national program. Studios were then built and local programs began in 1952. ABC Western Queensland now broadcasts through
32-456: Is Andrew Schmidt. The bureau is staffed by a team of three multiplatform news reporters, a rural reporter, a features reporter, a radio presenter, a radio producer and several casual staff. Journalists file stories to local platforms like the breakfast program and social media, as well as television, radio and online destinations across the ABC network. ABC Broken Hill covers issues and events across
48-571: Is a network of publicly owned radio stations in Australia , operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation . ABC Local Radio stations broadcast across the continent using terrestrial transmitters and satellites. Its programming consists of news, current affairs, talkback, entertainment, sport, music and local affairs. They are usually reckoned as the flagship ABC radio stations in their areas. Depending on
64-583: The Darwin Metro 8DDD on FM105.7 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 by frequency and callsign . In the 1990s, a different convention was used, generally as ABC Radio (region) or (region) FM . In 2000, these two almost identical networks merged 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
80-636: The Local Radio network. For example, Speaking Out , hosted by Larissa Behrendt , broadcasts (as of September 2020 ) on Radio National on Fridays at 8pm and on Local Radio on Sundays at 9pm. 999 ABC Broken Hill ABC Broken Hill is an ABC Local Radio station based in Broken Hill and broadcasting to the surrounding outback region in New South Wales , including the towns of Menindee , White Cliffs and Silverton . Unlike
96-735: The following main AM transmitters along with a number of low-power FM repeaters: During the late 1980s the NERR (North East Regional Radio) satellite service was established. This allowed 'black spots' to be filled in, supplementing the Longreach and Charleville transmitters. Program is fed via satellite to receivers in remote places like Birdsville or Karumba and then re-transmitted via a small FM transmitter to that town. "ABC Western Queensland's history" . ABC Online . 29 February 2008 . Retrieved 7 May 2008 . ABC Local Radio ABC Local Radio
112-399: 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. In January 2017, ABC Local Radio rebranded with a new logo, dropping
128-642: The frequency number of each local radio station as part of the network's multiplatform philosophy. In April 2019, ABC Local Radio began a rollout of branding updates for its 44 regional bureaux, ten regional stations dropping call signs from their names and two undergoing a significant name change to better identify their local region. There are sixty ABC Local Radio stations across 53 regions, including 52 regional stations and 8 metropolitan stations. The metropolitan stations are: The regional stations are: Digital stations: The metropolitan and regional stations originate most of their own programming. Until 2015,
144-404: The music entertainment that night. During the station's first year, there were only two staff, Jeff Medwell and Frank Scott. The original studios on 194 Argent Street were completely destroyed by a fire at 1:06 AM on 1 February 1966, which caused around 6000 pounds/10700 dollars of damage. New studios were built at 454 Argent Street and opened on 23 February 1971 by ABC Chairman Robert Madgwick and
160-697: The opening at the Broken Hill Town Hall and was attended by Acting Mayor Alderman W. F. Riddiford, Local Federal Member for Parliament J. J. Clark, Postmaster General Senator Cameron and Vice-Chairman of the ABC Mr E. R. Dawe, who stated that "2NB would bring programs nearer to the local Broken Hill people" and that "the Commission hoped that the people of Broken Hill would be better informed". The Quartet Club, Zinc Corporation Orchestra, Philharmonic Society, and Barrier Industrial Unions Band provided
176-436: The regional stations usually simulcast one of the metropolitan stations when they were not airing local programming. Usually, they simulcast their state's capital city station; an exception was 999 ABC Broken Hill , which simulcasts 891 ABC Adelaide because Broken Hill is on Central Time. In 2015, the ABC formed a Regional Division to again split its regional stations from the metropolitan counterparts. 1233 ABC Newcastle (2NC)
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#1732781091471192-402: The rest of New South Wales, Broken Hill operates as part of South Australia 's ABC Local Radio network, and takes network feeds from ABC Radio Adelaide whenever it isn't producing its own content. This is because Broken Hill is on Central Time, while the rest of NSW is on Eastern Time. The station went to air in the evening 29 July 1948 as station 2NB/760 AM. A ceremony was held in honour of
208-406: The station thus resumed broadcasts. The station celebrated 50 years of broadcasting in 1998. ABC Broken Hill carries locally produced radio programming from 6:15 to 11:00 every weekday morning, with local ABC News bulletins at 6:30, 7:30, 8:30 and midday. When local programs are not being broadcast, programs are relayed from either ABC Adelaide or ABC Sydney. The Chief of Staff at ABC Broken Hill
224-455: The time of day and the day of the week, programming can either be purely local (typically on weekday mornings), broadcast from the state or territory capital city ABC station, or simulcast across all ABC Local Radio services across the country (typically overnight, public holidays, in the summer months and on weekends). Originally, Local Radio was known internally as ABC Radio 1 in metropolitan regions and ABC Radio 3 in regional areas. Radio 1
240-563: Was a largely local format while Radio 3 was more networked and included content from the national programme, Radio 2. In the 1980s, Radio National emerged from Radio 2, and Radio 3 dropped its Radio 2 content, with Radio 1 becoming ABC Metropolitan Radio and Radio 3 becoming ABC Regional Radio. The Regional Radio stations provided local programming in Breakfast and Drive , but networked common content for most of their broadcasting hours. Some different, local market formats emerged, including
256-582: Was transferred from the metropolitan network to the new regional division and 14 of the regional network's member stations began streaming. In October 2015 a slight restructure of programs was announced. From 2016, Morning programs will be folded into longer Breakfast programs, followed by a new one-hour program, Local Life . There would be a loss of four local radio news bulletins; instead, headlines would replace two afternoon full news bulletins. There are local news websites for each station. Some programmes are aired first on ABC Radio National , then on
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