720 ABC Perth

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720 ABC Perth is an ABC radio station located in Perth, Western Australia. Its callsign is 6WF. It is one of the stations in the ABC Local Radio network and broadcasts on 720 kHz on the AM dial. This is an Australian Government sponsored station and is run through the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which is funded directly by the Australian Government.

1 Segments and Presenters
2 History
3 External link

[edit] Segments and Presenters

The station is currently broadcasting 11 segments per week day, 13 on Saturday and 12 on Sunday. These segments are:

[edit] Weekdays

5 AM 720 Breakfast presented by Eion Cameron
8 AM AM (A current affairs program) presented by Tony Eastley
8.30 AM Mornings presented by Geoff Hutchison
NOON The World Today presented by Eleanor Hall
1 PM Afternoons presented by Bernadette Young
4 PM Drive presented by Russell Woolf
6 PM PM presented by Mark Colvin from Monday - Thursday & and AFL Football broadcast (beginning at 5.30pm) on Fridays
7 PM WA Reloaded presented by Fleur Bainger from Monday to Thursday & an AFL Football broadcast (beginning at 5.30pm) on Fridays
8 PM Nightlife presented by Tony Delroy - on Fridays Nightlife starts at 9pm after the AFL broadcast
MIDNIGHT Overnights presented by Trevor Chappell (Monday-Thursday) and Rod Quinn (Friday-Sunday)
2/3 AM Early Mornings presented by Greg Pearce (Mondays from 2am and Tuesdays to Fridays from 3am)

[edit] Saturdays

5 AM Early Mornings presented by Greg Pearce
6 AM Saturday Breakfast presented by Geraldine Mellet
8 AM Saturday AM presented by Elizabeth Jackson
8.30 AM The Knowledge presented by Geraldine Mellet and Rolf Perey
9 AM Bricks and Roses presented by Geraldine Mellet & gardener Sabrina Hahn
10 AM Sportstalk presented by Glenn Mitchell (football season)
NOON Australian Football League (football season) 3 PM Australian Football League or Western Australian Football League (football season)
3.30 PM Sports Talk presented by Glenn Mitchell
5.30 PM Australian Football League (football season)
6 PM Australian Football League (football season)
8 PM Saturday Night Country (country and western music program presented by John Nutting
MIDNIGHT Overnights presented by Rod Quinn

[edit] Sundays

5 AM Interviews on 720 from the past week
5.30 AM Australia All Over, including news at 7.45am presented by Ian McNamara
10 AM Grandstand - (Sports Program)
11 AM AFL live (football season)
4 PM Grandstand Wrap
4.30 PM Local Sport wrap
6 PM Grandstand Wrap
6.30 PM The Coodabeen Champions
9 PM Sunday Profile presented by Julia Baird
9.30 PM Speaking Out presented by Karen Dorante - (Indigenous issues and current affairs)
10 PM Sunday Night Talk presented by John Cleary
2 AM Overnights presented by Rod Quinn

[edit] History

First founded in Western Australia by the Westralian Farmers Ltd. consortium on Wednesday 4 June 1924, the original purpose of the station was to provide "information and entertainment to rural areas". The first broadcast was made from a large studio in the Westralian Farmers buildings which was equipped with a transmitter that was the most powerful allowed under Commonwealth Regulations.

1929 saw the radio station change into the hands of the Australian Broadcasting Company under which the radio station moved from the Westralian Farmers buildings to the ABC buildings on the corner of Hay and Milligan Street in Perth.

The station moved again in 1937 to Stirling Institute in St Georges Terrace. This building was built 21 years previously as a temporary structure and was set to become the home of 720 Perth for the next 23 years. In 1960 a specially built 23 studio building complex was completed at 191 Adelaide Terrace in Rose hill and the station moved there during that year. This building was to provide the home for the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra for a number of years, running along side 3 separate radio stations.

These buildings lasted 45 years, until it was decided that new buildings must be built. A site was commissioned and the radio station moved to its new offices and studios in East Perth in March 2005.