What's New
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What's New February 22, 2026
Join ABC Perth as they launch on FM, where to find community stations displaced by the move
ABC Radio Perth will make the switch from AM to FM on Monday February 23, 2026 with an all day live broadcast in the Murray Street Mall. The switch happens at 7.20am and people are invited to come down, bring their friends and their radios.
The live broadcast roster is as below:
Breakfast with Mark Gibson from 5am-8am.
Mornings with Nadia Mitsopoulos 08.30am-11am.
Afternoons with Jo Trilling from 12.30pm-3pm.
Drive with Oliver Peterson 3pm-6pm.
You can also listen to ABC Radio Perth on 102.5FM (from 7:20am) or through ABC listen. Radio National will be now be heard on 103.3FM and ABC NewsRadio will be found on 104.1FM.
With the ABC’s FM move complete, the 720AM frequency will cease shortly afterwards but NewsRadio will continue to simulcast on 585AM for the time being. To accommodate the move several community stations have shifted frequency too.
They are:
6SAT Lancelin – from 103.9 FM to 104.5 FM
6FMS Lancelin – from 102.3 FM to 102.9 FM
Kalamunda Community Radio (KCR) – from 102.5 to 88.9FM
6SEN (Capital Community Radio) is relocating its operating site and will increase its footprint by operating at increased power at the new site.
City HPON (High-Powered Open Narrowcast) – from 103.3 FM to106.5 FM
Roger Jennings, the chair of KCR, told the ABC he could see positives in their move:
“[At 102.5] we were actually stuck in the middle of a large number of very powerful stations and that made us difficult to find. Auto-tuning radios in cars, and so on, just skips over us.
Down in the 88.9 area, we’re more likely to be found by car radios and things like that, we think.”
The changes have also allowed for a spectrum allocation for a new community radio service in the Swan area.
Additionally, for listeners in the nearby regions:
The Forrest and Canning electorates can tune to 684 AM (ABC South West WA)
The O’Connor electorate can tune to 531 AM (ABC Mid-West and Wheatbelt WA)
The Durack electorate can tune to 531 AM or 1215 AM, depending on location
ABC Perth is also available via the ABC listen app, Channel 25 on your digital TV, or online streaming, wherever internet or mobile coverage is available.
No mention of DAB+ in Perth? Digital radio not cutting or seen as an option to am medium wave?
I thought the same.
Seems DAB has had it day in Oz and not likely to expand as was touted when it launched. Official webpage has closed and CRA chief indicated focus has gone, adding DAB+ doesn’t work in tunnels.
Car manufacturers must be left wondering what it was all about.
I’m sure it says something when the only radio stations of note *really* promoting DAB+ these days are the AM music stations (in particular, those from ACE and Capital) who’d jump at the opportunity to convert to FM if a viable path to do so existed.
2CH as a Digital-only station wasn’t exactly a roaring success.
And generally speaking, any glimpses of innovation that once existed have all but disappeared. Most extra stations from the commercial networks are basically just niched versions of the main ones…or branded/in-store radio. Two of the extra stations from 2SM/The Super Radio Network here in Sydney (Zoo and Gorilla) have even been dead air for years, as far as I can tell!
Don’t even get me started on DAB+ slideshows, which in most cases aren’t used for anything particularly productive.