- Station name Station name
- ABC News Radio
- Description Description
- As the primary news division of the ABC, it is responsible for all news-gathering and coverage across the public broadcaster's various television, radio, and online platforms.
- Launch date Launch date
- 1 June 1947
- Owner Owner
- —
- Contact Contact
- —
ABC News Radio
Australia
Format
56kbps • AAC
ABC News is an Australian public news service operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The service covers both local and world affairs, broadcasting both nationally as ABC News, and across the Asia-Pacific under the ABC Australia title.
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Station overview Station overview
| Country Country |
Australia
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|---|---|
| Language Language | English |
| Stream status Stream status | Ok |
| Homepage Homepage | abc.net.au |
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First air date
1 June 1947
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Station details
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Location, identifiers, and useful links for this station.
| Station ID | 19049 |
|---|---|
| Region | Australia |
| Branding | ABC News |
| Launched | 1 June 1947 |
| Website | abc.net.au |
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| Last check | 12 hours ago |
|---|---|
| Track seen | 2 days ago |
| Stream host | abc.streamguys1.com |
| Final host | abc.streamguys1.com |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Content type | audio/aacp |
| Server software | Nimble/4.3.3-2 |
| Latency | 686 ms |
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| Current stream format | AAC |
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Last successful stream
12 hours ago
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About station About ABC News Radio
ABC News is an Australian public news service operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The service covers both local and world affairs, broadcasting both nationally as ABC News, and across the Asia-Pacific under the ABC Australia title.
As the primary news division of the ABC, it is responsible for all news-gathering and coverage across the public broadcaster's various television, radio, and online platforms. Some of the services included under the auspices of the division are its 24-hour news television channel ABC News Channel (formerly ABC News 24) and news radio station ABC NewsRadio, as well as its news programs AM, The World Today, and PM, and news bulletins on ABC Local Radio, Radio National, ABC Classic, and Triple J. ABC News has an extensive online presence which includes written news reports and videos, an ABC News mobile app (ABC Listen), podcasts, and in addition, all of the ABC News television programs available via the video-on-demand platform, ABC iview. As of 2021, the ABC News website includes ABC Sport, ABC Health, ABC Science, ABC Arts & Culture, ABC Fact Check, ABC Environment, and news in other languages. Simon Robinson was appointed director of the division on 28 May 2026.
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