- Station name Station name
- ABC North Queensland
- Description Description
- The station began broadcasting as 4QN in 1936. It was originally a relay station covering the whole of North Queensland with limited local news bulletins.
- Launch date Launch date
- 26 November 1936
- Owner Owner
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Contact Contact
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ABC North Queensland
Australia
Format
AAC
ABC North Queensland is an ABC Local Radio station based in Townsville broadcasting to North Queensland. This includes the towns of Bowen, Charters Towers, Ingham and Ayr.
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| Country Country |
Australia
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|---|---|
| Language Language | English |
| Source Source | Directory source |
| Stream status Stream status | Ok |
| Homepage Homepage | abc.net.au |
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AM
Primary frequency
630.0 kHz
Service type
AM
Coverage area
North Queensland
Owner / network
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
First air date
26 November 1936
Transmitter coordinates
-19.2564694, 146.8215028
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| Station ID | 37241 |
|---|---|
| Region | Australia, Queensland |
| Coordinates | -19.2564694, 146.8215028 |
| Map | OpenStreetMap |
| Owner | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Broadcast area | North Queensland |
| Launched | 26 November 1936 |
| Website | abc.net.au |
| Primary frequency | 0.63 MHz |
| Broadcast band | AM |
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| HTTP status | 200 |
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| Content-Type | application/vnd.apple.mpegURL |
| Latency | 909 ms |
| Last check | 52 minutes ago |
| Stream host | mediaserviceslive.akamaized.net |
| Final host | streaming.abc-cdn.net.au |
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About station About ABC North Queensland
ABC North Queensland is an ABC Local Radio station based in Townsville broadcasting to North Queensland. This includes the towns of Bowen, Charters Towers, Ingham and Ayr.
The station began broadcasting as 4QN in 1936. It was originally a relay station covering the whole of North Queensland with limited local news bulletins. Local program content increased in the 1960s and the station was also the home of regional ABC Television in Townsville, Cairns and Mount Isa. By the 1980s local program content was broadcast for most of the day, as well as a separate regional breakfast program. 4QN was also the headquarters of the regional network. John Nutting launched the Saturday Night Country show in 1994 from 4QN which is now broadcast nationally. The Townsville studios were also home to the first Aboriginal and Islander broadcasting in Australia.
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