4ZR is an Australian

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station located in

Roma, Queensland Roma is a rural town and locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. It is the administrative centre of the Maranoa Region. The town was incorporated in 1867 and is named after Lady Diamantina Bowen (née di Roma), the wife of Sir ...

. The station broadcasts to the

Maranoa Region Maranoa Region is a local government area in South West Queensland, Australia. The town of Roma is the administrative headquarters of the region. History The Gunggari language region of South West Queensland includes the landscape within the ...

on 1476 AM and provides a streams live on its website. 4ZR was officially opened on 23 July 1937 by

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, Robert Menzies. The station is currently owned by

Resonate Broadcasting Resonate Broadcasting is an Australian media company, operating radio stations across various centres across regional Queensland, as well as Hawaii. Formed in 2008, it currently operates 16 radio stations across Australia and the United States. ...

. Resonate purchased 4ZR in 2015, along with a number of other regional Queensland stations that were formerly part of the

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. Due to a merger between Macquarie and Fairfax Radio, the stations were offloaded in compliance with ACMA regulations. Programming on 4ZR is made up of a combination of locally presented shows, regionally networked programs such as ''Rural Queensland Today'', and nationally syndicated talk shows from capital cities such as those presented by

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, Alan Jones and Steve Price.4ZR Program Index
4ZR website. Retrieved 19 November 2016

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