Community Radio DAB+ Directory
There are over 60 community radio services available via DAB+ throughout Australia's capital cities and on the Gold Coast which you can find listed here. Some stations are simulcasts of AM/FM radio services, while others are unique to the DAB+ format.
If you are outside of the broadcast area for a service you can listen to station streams as they go to air on the Community Radio Plus app, available on Android, iPhone as well as select smart speakers and in-car audio systems.
For queries regarding station content, including schedules and specific shows, please direct them to the relevant stations through the links provided.
Services by region:
SYDNEY
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2RPH provides Sydney’s radio reading service with news and information to inform, educate and entertain people with vision impairment or who find it difficult to access or interpret text-based information. Programs feature readings from daily newspapers and magazines, with community and disability information. | Print disabled, simulcast |
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2RPH Plus provides alternate content scheduling for listeners in addition to 2RPH Digital, which is a wide coverage digital radio simulcast of the limited coverage AM analogue service. The 2RPH Plus radio reading service extends the choices and options for listeners who find it difficult to access or interpret text-based information. | Print disabled, unique |
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2SER presents education-based programming in Sydney with a wide range of talks, popular culture and specialist music programs. It aims to promote principles of social justice, access and diversity, and flagship news and current affairs programs provide opportunities for journalism students of UTS and Macquarie University. | Education, simulcast |
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2TripleO on DAB+ extends Sydney’s multilingual and multicultural community service with over 40 diverse local language communities, including the top 30 languages spoken in NSW. Programming includes interviews, music, local news, news from ‘home’ and community information. | Ethnic, unique |
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Eastside Radio broadcasts a range of specialty music genres including jazz, soul, blues, funk, Cuban, Brazilian, gypsy, world music and dance. Eastside also delivers broader arts content on topics such as the visual and performing arts, film and literature. | Specialised music, simulcast |
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FBi Radio is an independent youth broadcaster with a mission to shape and amplify independent culture in Sydney. FBi plays 50% Australian music with a focus on Sydney’s music, arts and culture fearturing programs to inspire young people, foster community and create positive change. | Youth, simulcast |
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Fine Music Sydney delivers a wide variety of fine music genres spanning classical, jazz, opera and contemporary styles, with a focus on music education. Specialist music broadcasters curate programs featuring renowned composers, orchestras, ensembles and soloists, and showcase Australian artists. | Fine music, simulcast |
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Hope is Sydney’s non-denominational contemporary Christian radio service, broadcasting mainstream and Christian music and family-friendly talks content. Programming encourages conversations regarding faith, life, relationships and current affairs, with underlying Christian themes. |
Christian, simulcast |
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Inspire Digital delivers Christian music and teachings from Australia and abroad through a suite of Christian music and talks content and a daily series of inspirational, devotional and faith-building segments. Program highlights include Focus on the Family and Morning Devotions. | Christian, unique |
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Koori Radio is Sydney’s First Nations radio service, broadcasting across Eora country as part of the Gadigal Information Service arts media hub. The service presents a live and deadly mix of Australian and international Indigenous and bla(c)k music, as well as talkback, news and community information. |
Indigenous, simulcast |
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Muslim Radio is a multicultural and multilingual Islamic service in Sydney, and the only radio station of its kind in Australia. Daily programming aligns with the Islamic calendar of religious events and seasonal celebrations such as Ramadan and Dhu’l-Hijjah, featuring programs in Arabic, English and other community languages. | Muslim, simulcast |
MELBOURNE
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3CR is a Melbourne community access service enabling progressive ideas and supporting social change. The service provides access to women, workers, First Nations people and local community groups. Programs cover news and current affairs, social justice activism, the environment, ethnic community interests, arts, music, trade unions and human rights, with 55% Australian music. | Community access, simulcast |
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3MBS is Melbourne’s fine music service, dedicated to supporting its community of musicians, composers and listeners by fostering and preserving classical music experiences. Programming offers a unique blend of classical, choral, chamber, opera, jazz, theatre and world music, alongside regular arts and event updates by specialist presenters. | Fine music, hybrid |
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Triple R is a Melbourne’s educational radio service and independent community voice, delivering a broad range of specialist music and talks programs, with a strong focus on local and Australian music. Over 60 programs include music, arts and culture, social and political issues, human rights, current affairs, environment, science and technology, and local issues. | Education, simulcast |
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3ZZZ is a multilingual service catering to Melbourne’s diverse ethnic communities. Volunteers broadcast from over 60 affiliated ethnic groups in 70 community languages, providing valuable information to major and emerging language groups. Programming includes music and talks, local and international news, community announcements, sports and social and cultural issues. | Ethnic, simulcast |
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JOY provides a voice for Melbourne’s diverse LGBTQIA+ communities and is the only station of its kind in Australia. The service informs, entertains and empowers rainbow communities and aims to build a more inclusive society. It celebrates the achievements and pride of the LGBTQIA+ community through music, culture, news and talks programs. | LGBTQIA+, simulcast |
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3KND provides a voice to Melbourne’s First Nations community, offering a unique platform to share Indigenous experiences, perspectives, culture and community information. Broadcasters are trained in radio and media to support the aim to educate, entertain and promote Indigenous communities in a positive, informal and Kool N Deadly spirit. | Indigenous, simulcast |
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TheLight 89.9 is Melbourne’s Christian radio service powered by Positive Media, and featuring contemporary music and family-friendly talks content for listeners of the Christian faith. It supports charitable events and connects listeners with local Christian community services. Talks topics include family and relationships, sports, finance, health, arts, news and current affairs. | Christian, simulcast |
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PBS is a progressive music service dedicated to supporting and inspiring Melbourne’s diverse music community. The service features over 80 specialist music programs ranging from soul to garage and country to jazz, funk, rock, electronic and experimental music. PBS radio promotes under-represented local and independent artists, including live music and events. | Progressive music, simulcast |
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SYN Media is dedicated to Melbourne’s youth community, amplifying the voices of young people between 12-25 years of age. The service features a combination of flagship and seasonal programs, providing broadcast and training opportunities to over 300 young people. Programming spans current affairs, music, art, comedy, sport and schools-on-air programs. | Youth, simulcast |
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TheLight MIX (3TSC)
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TheLight Mix, is an additional DAB+ service catering to listeners of Christian faith, powered by Positive Media. The service delivers a range of specialist programs featuring community worship, daily devotionals, talks and interviews exploring faith and life, as well as news updates and music from contemporary Christian artists. | Christian, unique |
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IRIS is an entertainment and information service produced by the Vision Australia Radio network. Offering a mix of reading, magazine and music programs, the service features local and shared content including current affairs, lifestyle, technology, science, arts, religion, consumer education, health and disabilities. | Print disabled, unique |
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Vision Australia Radio operates services in Melbourne and regional Victoria providing reading and information services catering to the needs of people with print disabilities. Services include a weekly schedule of newspaper, magazine and book readings, as well as a broad range of specialist programs including arts and culture, employment and disability issues. |
Print disabled, simulcast |
BRISBANE
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Independent broadcaster 4ZZZ has been pumping out alternative music, news and culture since its early days of student radio in 1975. Whether it’s music, arts, LGBTQIA+, First Nations or local issues, the service endeavours to empower local communities through community broadcasting, and reflect Brisbane’s local music scene and culture. | Education, specialised music, simulcast |
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4FRB 96five is Brisbane’s Christian service delivering advice, music and information about family-friendly events around Brisbane. Programming encourages conversations regarding faith, life, relationships and current affairs, with underlying Christian themes. | Christian, simulcast |
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Global enhances 4EB’s capacity to cater to culturally and linguistically diverse communities as a DAB+ service broadcasting an eclectic mix of world and traditional music. Global features new locally produced multilingual programs from emerging ethnic communities in SE Queensland, and community radio’s national current affairs programme, The Wire. | Ethnic, unique |
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The 4FRB Inspire service delivers Christian music and teachings from Australia and abroad through a suite of Christian music and talks content and a daily series of inspirational, devotional and faith-building segments. Program highlights include Focus on the Family, Morning Devotions, Leading the Way and Christian Growth. | Christian, unique |
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The 4MBS Light DAB+ service provides listeners with light and entertaining classical music spanning a variety of fine music genres and interpretations. Genres include lighter classics, waltzes, jazz, swing and big band, theatre and stage music and operetta. The service offers a unique alternative for the fine music community of Brisbane. | Fine music, unique |
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4RPH Reading Radio Brisbane provides news and information to inform, educate and entertain people with vision impairment or who find it difficult to access or interpret text-based information. Programs feature readings from daily newspapers, magazines, books and journals, along with specialist disability and community service information. | Print disabled, simulcast |
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Switch Brisbane is Brisbane’s youth community radio broadcaster providing on-air pathways for young people to pursue careers in journalism and media in SE Queensland. Operated by Brisbane Interactive Radio Group, programs feature a mix of youth focused music, talks and schools-on-air partnerships providing opportunities for local students. | Youth, simulcast |
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Triple A is Brisbane’s First Nations radio service. Operating as part of the Brisbane Indigenous Media Association (BIMA), the service shares BIMA’s mission to strengthen First Nations voices to educate and inform the community. Triple A is known for its unique blend of country and Indigenous music, with a strong focus on talks programs, current affairs, arts, culture and community news. | Indigenous, simulcast |
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Zed Digital, produced by 4ZZZ, presents a free-form music and specialist radio format. Music programming caters to underrepresented music styles and subcultures with an eclectic mix of dance, electronic, experimental and ambient music. Talks programs include queer, feminist, First Nations and local issues, spoken word, gaming, film, comedy, local arts and events. | Education, specialised music, unique |
ADELAIDE
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5EBI is Adelaide’s comprehensive multicultural and multilingual broadcasting service, representing over 40 language communities. The service delivers a broad range of international music, local and world news, current affairs and specialist talks programs reflecting cultural diversity and features regular outside broadcasts from community events. | Ethnic, simulcast |
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Fresh aims to educate, empower and entertain Adelaide’s youth community. The service provides opportunities for young people to present music, news and talks with a focus on contemporary dance, pop, electronic music and local emerging music cultures. The flagship program Wavelength tells stories of Adelaide people, events and culture. | Youth, simulcast |
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Life FM is Adelaide’s Christian service broadcasting family-focused, positive content and music that brings hope, informed by biblical teachings. Life FM aims to be a contemporary service, speaking to current issues and presenting the biblical world view through broadcasting, and connecting listeners with local Christian services and communities. | Christian, simulcast |
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Radio Adelaide is an independent and inclusive educational broadcaster telling uniquely South Australian stories and giving voice to diverse communities. The service features a broad range of contemporary and local music, magazine and engaging talks, arts and current affairs programs. Flagship shows include Nunga Wangga, Festival City and Local Noise. | Education, simulcast |
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Three D radio showcases the best in alternative and local music, with a weekly rotation of specialist contemporary music programs. The service is grassroots in its approach to unearthing local talent, with interviews and live studio performances featuring musicians from Adelaide and beyond. Programs reflect a commitment to 40% Australian, 40% female and 20% local artists content. | Progressive music, simulcast |
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IRIS is an entertainment and information service produced by the Vision Australia Radio network. Offering a mix of reading, magazine and music programs, the service features local and shared content including current affairs, lifestyle, technology, science, arts, religion, consumer education, health and disabilities. | Print disabled, unique |
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Vision Australia Radio is a reading and information service catering to the information needs of people with print disabilities. The service provides a weekly schedule of newspaper, magazine and book readings, local Adelaide community information, as well as specialist programs discussing assistive technologies, employment and disability issues. | Print disabled, simulcast |
PERTH
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6EBA is Perth’s multilingual service, hosting over 80 local language programs and supporting broadcast opportunities for cultural and linguistically diverse communities. It provides a broad suite of music and talks programs covering local news, community issues and cultural events, including youth access to on-air training with multicultural youth programs. | Ethnic, simulcast |
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Capital Community Radio is dedicated to providing music and information to senior citizens across Perth. Programming includes a mix of specialist and nostalgia music shows, along with talks programs with local news and information targeted to the interests of the mature-age audience, and creates a key connection point for the seniors community. | Senior/mature, simulcast |
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Curtin Digital provides a mix of popular music from across the decades alongside talks programming and interviews covering daily local news, community events and issues. Based at Curtin University, the service also provides training, professional development and industry learning for journalism students at the University’s School of Media and Information Studies. |
Education, simulcast |
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Noongar Radio is an Indigenous music and talks service that aims to promote Noongar people, music and culture, and create opportunities for employment and the stories that matter for First Nations communities in Perth and WA. The service provides local community outreach via talkback and current affairs programs, and a focus on Aboriginal artists. | Indigenous, simulcast |
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RTR Digital is an alternative voice for Perth, offering a unique blend of specialist music and talks programs. The service provides a platform for local news and issues, with a strong focus on arts, culture, social justice, politics and the environment. RTR champions local music and supports music diversity through 50+ programs and a schedule of annual events. |
Educational, specialised music, simulcast |
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The Sonshine service provides a mix of adult contemporary mainstream and Christian news, music, and a mix of family-focused shows and segments with community guests. Sonshine programming speaks to current issues, connecting listeners with local Christian services and communities. | Christian, simulcast |
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Sonshine Extra supplements Sonshine's content with teachings from local churches and programs including Light & Life, Christianity Works, Insight for Living and Great Hymns of the Faith. | Christian, unique |
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IRIS is an entertainment and information service produced by the Vision Australia Radio network. Offering a mix of reading, magazine and music programs, the service features local and shared content including current affairs, lifestyle, technology, science, arts, religion, consumer education, health and disabilities. | Print disabled, unique |
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Vision Australia Radio in Perth is a reading and information service catering to the information needs of people with print disabilities. The service provides a weekly schedule of newspaper, magazine and book readings, local information and specialist programs including new technologies, arts and culture, employment and disability issues. | Print disabled, simulcast |
CANBERRA
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1WAY is a Christian radio service that aims to promote a Christian perspective across the Canberra community. It broadcasts Christian music and a broad range of specialist and talks programs reflecting the Christian faith and teachings to offer hope and encouragement to listeners. | Christian, simulcast |
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2XX broadcasts a range of programs including specialist music, talks and community access programs. It aims to give a voice to the diverse Canberra community with a strong focus on local issues, news, community and cultural events, Australian music, access and diversity. Flagship programs include Gender Equity Matters and Behind the Lines. | Local, simulcast |
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ArtSound is an independent and locally focused community arts and music radio service. It aims to support and celebrate the strong and vibrant cultural life in Canberra and the ACT region through broadcasting that reflects the full range and diversity of creative practice, with particular focus on classical, jazz, folk and world music and their various sub-genres. |
Progressive and fine music, simulcast |
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The Canberra Multicultural Service broadcasts in over 35 languages and is the only multicultural service in the ACT and surrounding districts. It provides local, national and international news, the latest in culture and music, and promotes multiculturalism through the bridge-building capacity of community broadcasting. |
Ethnic, simulcast |
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Radio 1RPH is Canberra’s radio reading service providing news and information to inform, educate and entertain people with vision impairment or find it difficult to access or interpret text-based information. Programs feature readings from daily newspapers, magazines, books,and journals, along with disability and community information. | Print disabled, simulcast |
DARWIN
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97 Seven is a Christian community broadcasting service reflecting Christian faith and values, and a broad range of programs geared to the interests of Darwin’s Christian community. The services aims to connect listeners with local Christian services and communities across Darwin and the Top End. | Christian, simulcast |
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The First Nations Radio service gives voice to the Larrakia and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in and around Darwin, and across the Northern Territory. It specialises in playing Indigenous music, including country, pop, indie, dance and hip hop and regular interviews with music, sports and community leaders. | Indigenous, unique |
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Territory FM is based at the Casuarina campus of Charles Darwin University and provides a broad ranging service including contemporary music, greatest hits and talks programs with regular news, interviews and information on local community events and activities. | Local, simulcast |
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Vision Australia Radio is a reading and information service catering to the information needs of people with print disabilities. The service provides a weekly schedule of newspaper, magazine and book readings, as well as a broad range of specialist programs including arts and culture, employment and disability issues. | Print disabled, unique |
HOBART
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Edge Radio is a youth radio service providing a mix of music, entertainment, and local information to enhance Hobart’s cultural landscape. It has a core audience in the 15 to 30 age group and aims to provide a vibrant, youth focused and broadly inclusive service with an emphasis on local issues and music appealing to ‘youth of all ages’. | Youth, simulcast |
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Hobart FM provides a broad format of music and specialist talks programs including community access and multicultural language programs. It supports local and Australian music across all genres and covers local arts, performances, cultural and community events and local issues. |
Local, simulcast |
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7RPH is Tasmania’s print radio service providing information for people who find it difficult to access printed material. 7RPH was the first RPH radio reading service in Australia and is now part of the Australia-wide RPH network, providing access to a wide variety of printed publications and material with over 90 weekly programs. |
Print disabled, simulcast |
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Ultra is a Christian radio service based in Hobart reflecting faith, family and culture with a range of music and lifestyle programs. It aims to support relationships, encourage people in their parenting, their life and their faith journey, and to help build strong communities based on Christian values. | Christian, simulcast |
GOLD COAST
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The 4CRB community radio service broadcasts a mix of music, interviews, and talkback. The music is easy listening hits and memories from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, and interviews and talk back are designed to be of interest and educational. The 4CRB newsroom is dedicated to localism and to providing news and items of interest about the Gold Coast community. | Local, simulcast |
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Juice is a Christian community broadcasting service offering a ratio of 60% Christian and 40% mainstream programming. As well as music, Juice supports the Gold Coast Christian faith community connecting with community billboards and events, and provides sport and general talk programs. |
Christian, simulcast |
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Radio Metro is a youth community radio service focusing on music and providing a fresh musical platform for the youth community. The service encourages the involvement of the youth of the Gold Coast and promotes local charities and supports local presenters and producers. |
Youth, simulcast |
