ABC On The Road to Toowoomba

Some of the ABC’s best known national programs will be On The Road and heading to Toowoomba in Queensland.

For one week from October 26, a number of ABC journalists, presenters and crew will join the local ABC Toowoomba team to produced their programs and shows not only across radio but television, news and online.

ABC Local Radio’s AM with Michael Brissenden, triple j’s Hack, Australia All Over with Macca and Life Matters on Radio National are just a few of the network shows to come from the Garden city on the Darling Downs.

On The Road is part of the new ABC Regional division’s commitment to rural and regional Australia to ensure their voices are heard on the network’s national platforms.

ABC Managing Director Mark Scott said: “Our audiences have told us they want more regional content and one way for us to do this is to send our teams to those towns and centres and ask them what’s going on locally.

“Despite the technological changes that have created a global village, some of our oldest and most established communities are becoming increasingly cut-off from the national conversation, particularly as other media outlets in those regions continues to downsize. We want to meet the locals and become the eyes and ears for the rest of the nation.”

On the Road in Toowoomba will close with an ABC Family Day event on Saturday October 31,

Participating programs (all times QLD)

Monday 26th October

8:00am

AM with Michael Brissenden

9:00am

ABC Open ‘Faces of Toowoomba’ portraits street-art exhibition launches

9:00am

Life Matters Radio National

10:00am

iView Toowoomba stories collection launches

5:30pm

triple j Hack

8:30pm

Q&A LIVE – Empire Theatre, live TV broadcast

Tuesday 27th October

8:00am

AM with Michael Brissenden

12:00pm

Queensland Country Hour – from Local Radio Southern Queensland studio

5:30pm

triple j Hack

6:30pm

The Book Club – Armitage Theatre, TV record

Wednesday 28th October

8:00am

AM with Michael Brissenden

9:00am

Life Matters Radio National

6:30pm

Compass [Moral Compass live event] – Armitage Theatre, TV record

Thursday 29th October

8:00am

AM with Michael Brissenden – program incl. Sth Qld story

9:00am

Life Matters Radio National – program incl. story from Toowoomba

4:00pm

Queensland Regional Drive with Rob Mailer – from Local Radio Southern Queensland studio

5:30pm

7:00pm

triple j Hack – program incl. story from Toowoomba

ABC Local Radio Evenings with David Curnow – Church Theatre, live radio broadcast

Friday 30th October

8:00am

AM with Michael Brissenden – from Local Radio Southern Queensland studio

10:00am

Gardening Australia – Costa filming from Toowoomba backyards and gardens

12:00pm

Landline – Pip Courtney shooting links in & around Toowoomba

3:34pm

Studio 3 – Queen’s Park (incl. story packages shot in Toowoomba), live TV broadcast

4:00pm

Queensland Regional Drive with Rob Mailer – Uni Queensland Gatton Campus, live radio broadcast

7:00pm

ABC News Queensland – weather bulletin, with Jenny Woodward, live from Toowoomba

Saturday 31st October

6:00am

Weekend Breakfast – Empire Theatre lawn, live TV broadcast

6:00am

ABC Family Day w. ABC personalities, see TV & radio being made live – Empire Theatre lawn

9:00am

Local Radio Southern QLD weekend mornings – Empire Theatre lawn, live radio broadcast

10:30am

Australia Wide

Sunday 1st November

4:30am

Australia All Over – Gatton Cultural Centre, live radio broadcast