4TO FM

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Broadcast area Townsville RA1
Branding 102.3 4TO FM
Slogan Townsville's Greatest Hits from the 80s to Now
Repeater(s)

92.3 FM Mt Inkerman

98.3 FM Bowen
Format Adult Contemporary
Language(s) English
Callsign meaning 4 - Queensland
Derived from former callsign; TOwnsville
Affiliations LocalWorks
Owner Southern Cross Austereo
Sister stations 103.1 Hot FM
Website 4TO FM

4TO FM (ACMA callsign: 4TOO) is an Australian radio station in Queensland. Owned and operated as part of Southern Cross Austereo's LocalWorks network, it broadcasts an adult contemporary format to Townsville, Queensland. First broadcast in 1931 on 1170 kHz AM, later 780 kHz, then became 774 kHz in the 1978 shakeup when all AM transmitters were shuffled into the 9kHz spacing regime. In 1998 the station transferred to the FM band, under ownership of dmg Regional Radio - later sold to Macquarie Regional RadioWorks and Southern Cross Media Group. The station broadcasts all North Queensland Cowboys NRL matches, and networks music programming to the LocalWorks network.

Southern Cross Austereo

Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) is an Australian group of companies formed in July 2011 by the merger of Southern Cross Media Group and Austereo Group. The Group's parent company, Southern Cross Media Group Limited, is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

Southern Cross Media Group

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North Queensland Cowboys rugby league football club

The North Queensland Cowboys are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Townsville, the largest city in North Queensland. They compete in Australia’s premier rugby league competition, the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership. Since their foundation in 1995, the club has appeared in three grand finals winning in 2015, and has reached the finals ten times. The team's management headquarters and home ground, the Willows Sports Complex, currently known as 1300SMILES Stadium due to sponsorship rights, are located in the Townsville suburb of Kirwan.

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In January 2015 the 774 AM repeater was shut down, and in December 2015 the masts were demolished. [1]

On August 16, 2016, a repeater was switched on from Mt Inkerman, south of Home Hill, covering the Burdekin region on 92.3 MHz.

Programming

92.5 Gold FM

92.5 Gold FM is an Australian radio station in Queensland. Owned and operated as part of Southern Cross Austereo's LocalWorks network, it broadcasts an adult contemporary format to Gold Coast, Queensland. First broadcast as 4GG in 1967, the station moved to the FM band in 1989 as Triple G - later KROQ.

Gold Coast, Queensland City in Queensland, Australia

The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the Australian state of Queensland, approximately 66 kilometres (41 mi) south-southeast of the state capital Brisbane and immediately north of the border with New South Wales. With a census-estimated 2016 population of 638,090, the Gold Coast is the sixth-largest city in Australia, making it the largest non-capital city, and Queensland's second-largest city.

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