ABC Capricornia

ABC Capricornia - 4RK on the callsign - is one of the ABC's original regional stations, and a curious piece of history: it began on 29 July 1931, a full year before the Australian Broadcasting Corporation was created, under its forerunner the Australian Broadcasting Company.

Only one other regional station was older, and the 75th birthday was duly celebrated in 2006. Today the signal travels on two powerful AM transmitters - 837 from Gracemere near Rockhampton and 1548 from Emerald - with FM translators filling in towns like Gladstone and Biloela.

Programming is talk-led local radio: news, rural affairs, weather and sport for the beef capital and the Capricorn Coast, backed by the ABC's national schedule. Free to stream online, it makes an easy local news web radio listen - ninety-plus years of Central Queensland radio, from the Fitzroy River to anywhere in the world.