West FM is a

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station in regional

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, Australia. Owned and operated 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. ...

, the station commenced broadcasting to

Longreach Longreach is a town and a locality in the Longreach Region, Queensland, Australia. It is the administrative centre of the Longreach Regional Council, which was established in 2008 as a merger of the former Longreach, Ilfracombe, and Isisford ...

on 26 June 1997, expanding to

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in 2016, and

Charters Towers Charters Towers is a rural town in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. It is by road south-west from Townsville on the Flinders Highway. During the last quarter of the 19th century, the town boomed as the rich gold deposits unde ...

in 2017.

History

West FM commenced broadcasting in Longreach after sister station 4LG was granted a secondary FM licence. On 27 July 1999, Triple C FM commenced broadcasting to Charleville, a sister station to 4VL. Both Triple C and 4VL would later be sold to the Smart Radio Group, and in 2011 to the

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. Following the sale of Macquarie's Queensland assets to

, in 2016 Triple C FM rebranded as West FM and commenced sharing programming with the Longreach station of the same name. Also in 1997, 4GC Charters Towers was too granted a secondary licence, which launched on 13 October as Hot FM. In 2008, following the acquisition of

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's television assets, owners

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were made to divest the station to Resonate Broadcasting. Despite this, the station continued to share programming with Hot FM Mount Isa - later hit102.5 - until 2017, when Resonate Broadcasting rebranded the station as West FM alongside the Longreach and Charleville stations.

Transmitters

West FM programming is broadcast via three full power stations. The three full power stations feed a further seven repeater stations.

References

External links

Triple C FM website
Radio stations in Queensland Radio stations established in 1999 Adult contemporary radio stations in Australia Resonate Broadcasting 1999 establishments in Australia {{Australia-radio-station-stub