Broadcast area | Broken Hill RA1 () |
---|---|
Frequency | 567 kHz AM |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Format | News, Sport, Entertainment |
Ownership | |
Owner |
|
2HIL | |
History | |
First air date | June 30, 1934 [1] |
Technical information | |
Power | 500 watts |
Transmitter coordinates | 31°56′23″S141°26′36″E / 31.93972°S 141.44333°E |
Links | |
Website | Official website |
2BH is an Australian radio station owned by the Super Radio Network. The station serves Broken Hill, New South Wales and parts of the Far West region.
The station has been broadcasting on the AM band for over 80 years, its first transmission being in July 1934. The current format is "News, Sport and Talk", but they also play Gold music from the 60s, 70s and 80s and Australian Country music.
Its building (shown) is shaped as an old radio and is a tourist attraction on Broken Hill; some tour buses and companies include it in their tours.[ citation needed ]
Upstairs in the station is a "Museum" of different radios and transmitters, tape reels and speakers. These range from the 1940s Gulbransen Super-Heterodyne to the 1948 Kriesler Radio through to old radio broadcasting equipment. Most of the equipment on display is Australian made. Unfortunately almost all of this equipment is thought to be out of order.
2BH 567AM has a local program for 3 hours a day, from 5:30am CST to 8:30am CST with the "Bigger Brighter Brekkie Show".
Broken Hill is a city in the far west region of outback New South Wales, Australia. An inland mining city, is near the border with South Australia on the crossing of the Barrier Highway (A32) and the Silver City Highway (B79), in the Barrier Range. It is 315m above sea level, with a hot desert climate, and an average rainfall of 235mm. The closest major city is Mildura, 300km to the south and the nearest State Capital City is Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, which is more than 500km to the southwest and linked via route A32.
ABC Radio Melbourne is an ABC Local Radio station in Melbourne, Australia. It began transmission on 13 October 1924, and was Melbourne's second licensed radio station after 3AR.
Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC, in Portland Place and Langham Place, London. The first radio broadcast from the building was made on 15 March 1932, and the building was officially opened two months later, on 15 May. The main building is in Art Deco style, with a facing of Portland stone over a steel frame. It is a Grade II* listed building and includes the BBC Radio Theatre, where music and speech programmes are recorded in front of a studio audience.
Broadcast Operations Group is an Australian media company, operating radio stations across various centres across regional New South Wales and Queensland, Australia. Branded as the Super Radio Network, stations carry one of two formats – a news talk and classic hits format based at 2SM Sydney; and a hot adult contemporary format based at New FM Newcastle.
ABC Radio Sydney is an ABC radio station in Sydney, Australia. It is the flagship station in the ABC Local Radio network and broadcasts on 702 kHz on the AM dial. The station transmits with a power (CMF) of 3,110V, which is equivalent to 50 kW from a site 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of the Sydney CBD.
BBC Radio Cymru is a Welsh language radio network owned and operated by BBC Cymru Wales, a division of the BBC. It broadcasts on two stations across Wales on FM, DAB, digital TV and online.
NEWFM is an Australian radio station, licensed to, and serving Newcastle and its surrounding area. It is owned by Bill Caralis's Broadcast Operations Group, and operates at 105.3 megahertz on the FM band from Radio Centre at Sandgate. Great Mt Sugarloaf houses the transmitter site. Its callsign is 2NEW, the 2 being a standard prefix for stations in New South Wales, and NEW short for Newcastle. Its sister station is 2HD. On 24 May 2005, NEWFM reverted to its original 1989 logo which has since been modernised.
Southern Cross Media Group Limited, doing business as Southern Cross Austereo, is an Australian media company which operates broadcast radio and television stations. It is the largest radio broadcaster in Australia, operating 86 radio stations, and has a reach into every state and territory.
4BC is a radio station in Brisbane, Queensland, owned by parent company Nine Radio, a division of Nine Entertainment Co. It broadcasts on 882 kHz AM and is Brisbane's only commercial talkback station.
KWVA is a college radio station broadcasting from the EMU building on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon, United States. Licensed to the University of Oregon, it serves the Eugene/Springfield metropolitan area and has a live online stream. KWVA primarily plays a varied mix of music, in addition talk shows and live college sports broadcasts.
Sports Entertainment Network (SEN), formerly Crocmedia, is an Australian radio and television distribution company established in 2006 by journalists James Swanwick and Craig Hutchison. SEN's parent company is Sports Entertainment Group (SEG), formerly Pacific Star Network.
2CA is an Australian commercial radio station on the AM band serving Canberra. It is jointly owned by the Capital Radio Network and Grant Broadcasters. The station broadcasts on AM Stereo 1053 kHz and on DAB.
WTVR-FM is a radio station licensed to Richmond, Virginia. WTVR-FM serves Central Virginia with an adult contemporary music format. The station is owned and operated by Audacy, Inc. with studios and offices located north of Richmond's city limits on Basie Road in Dumbarton. It formerly shared a nearby broadcasting tower with its former TV sister station, WTVR-TV. Currently, it shares a tower with PBS member stations WCVE-TV and WCVW.
4RK, better known as ABC Capricornia is one of the ABC's original regional radio stations, predating the corporation's inception on 1 July 1932. 4RK, as it was known at the time, began broadcasting on 29 July 1931 and was owned by the Australian Broadcasting Company. The power was initially 2 kilowatts. The transmitting equipment was established by Keith Thow of STC.
Triple M Sydney is a radio station broadcasting in Sydney, Australia. Triple M Sydney is part of Southern Cross Austereo's Triple M network and broadcasts on the 104.9 MHz frequency.
ABC Riverland is an ABC Local Radio station based in Renmark, South Australia, broadcasting to the Riverland and Mallee region.
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.
3YB FM is a radio broadcaster based in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. It transmits on the frequency modulation radio band, at a frequency of 94.5 MHz. The station is part of the Ace Radio FM network. It has an adult contemporary music format mixed with talk such as Mornings with Neil Mitchell syndicated from 3AW.
2HIL, branded on-air as Hill FM, is an Australian radio station owned by the Super Radio Network. The station serves Broken Hill, New South Wales, and has a reach of about 70 km outside of Broken Hill.
2LF is an Australian radio station serving the Young region and is part of the Super Radio Network with its sister station Roccy FM. It was opened in February 1938.