AU · Canberra ACT · English
ABC Radio Canberra
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- news
- talk
115 kbps · AAC · Record last changed 16 Sep 2026
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What the directory records
Record last changed 16 Sep 2026
- Country
- Australia
- Language
- English
- Format
- AAC
- Stream
- HLS playlist
- Last catalogue check
- Stream answered
- Broadcaster
- abc.net.au
At position 98 of 140, this is one of the stations in Australia that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.
ABC Radio Canberra leads with news, a tag 7 other stations in Australia use and one the country hub lists among its headline genres. If the country's sound is what brought you here, this is squarely part of it.
The stream is served as an HLS playlist, which is the format broadcasters use to switch bitrates on the fly and the one a plain browser audio element will not open. Nothing is wrong with the station; the player on this page simply cannot follow that kind of link without a library. The extension carries one and handles it.
The audio comes from mediaserviceslive.akamaized.net, and 27 other stations in Australia are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Australia's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.
ABC Radio Canberra and Indie & Alt are described by the directory in very nearly the same fields, which makes the differences between them worth stating rather than leaving to be inferred. This entry records Canberra ACT as the region it transmits from, and the other records no region at all. The two streams are served from different addresses, mediaserviceslive.akamaized.net for this one and sa46.scastream.com.au for the other. The directory puts this stream at one hundred and fifteen kilobits and the other at one hundred and thirty. The broadcaster tagged this entry news and talk, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the indie tag and this one does not. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, abc.net.au and listnr.com.
- City or region
- Canberra ACT
- Country
- Australia
ABC Radio Canberra is one of 380 playable stations the catalogue lists in Australia, and one of the smaller number that say where in the country they transmit from.
These are counts of what people did inside the public radio-browser catalogue and the apps that read it, over the whole life of the entry. They are not our own figures and they are not an audience measurement: most entries in this catalogue sit under five all-time plays, so a small number here means the catalogue has little to say about this station rather than that nobody listens to it.
Broadcast by ABC Radio Canberra. Stream served directly by the broadcaster. Their own site is at www.abc.net.au.
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