Triple M Mackay 98.7

Triple M Mackay 98.7 is the rock station of Mackay, the city on the central Queensland coast surrounded by sugar cane fields and coal terminals. Part of the Triple M network, it plays rock - classic tracks and the big guitar songs - mixed with sport - rugby league above all - comedy and the local content of the Mackay region.

Mackay, the gateway to the Whitsunday islands, calls itself the sugar capital of Australia, and the mines of the Bowen Basin are just inland, so the audience is heavy with shift workers, tradies and farmers - exactly the crowd Triple M speaks to. The 98.7 signal covers the region, from the cane towns to the coast, and the live online stream keeps the station within reach of the many Mackay workers on fly-in fly-out rosters, and anyone listening from further away.