ABC Riverland

ABC Riverland - 5MV at birth - is the ABC Local Radio station for the Riverland and Mallee, based in Renmark and on air since 31 July 1957. Its opening was actually delayed a year by the Murray River flood of 1956 - a fitting start for a station that serves floodplain communities.

Frequency changes mark its history - 1593 AM, then 1305, now 1062 AM - and it was the first regional station in Australia to be fitted with digital equipment. In 1989 it even carried The Voice of Greece, a non-English program hosted by Jim Grifsas for the region's Greek settlers.

Today the local day runs from the Riverland Rural Report through Weekday Breakfast and Saturday Breakfast, with ABC Radio Adelaide relaying the rest. Free to stream online, it makes an easy local news web radio listen - the voice of the irrigation country along the Murray, from Renmark's riverfront to anywhere in the world.