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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: 105.7 ABC Darwin, 1062 ABC Riverland, 107.9 ABC Ballarat, 1233 ABC Newcastle, 612 ABC Brisbane, 666 ABC Canberra, 702 ABC Sydney, 720 ABC Perth, 774 ABC Melbourne, 783 ABC Alice Springs, 891 ABC Adelaide, 90.3 ABC Coast FM, 91.7 ABC Coast FM, 92.5 ABC Central Coast, 936 ABC Hobart, 97.3 ABC Illawarra, 999 ABC Broken Hill, ABC Capricornia, ABC Central Victoria, ABC Central West, ABC Coffs Coast, ABC Far North, ABC Gippsland, ABC Goldfields-Esperance, ABC Goulburn Murray, ABC Great Southern, ABC Katherine, ABC Kimberley, ABC Midwest & Wheatbelt, ABC Mid North Coast, ABC Mildura Swan Hill, ABC New England North West, ABC Northern Tasmania, ABC North and West SA, ABC North Coast, ABC North Queensland, ABC North West Queensland, ABC North West WA, ABC Riverina, ABC Shepparton, ABC Southern Queensland, ABC South Coast, ABC South East NSW, ABC South East SA, ABC South West Victoria, ABC South West WA, ABC Tropical North, ABC Upper Hunter, ABC Western Plains, ABC Western Queensland, ABC Western Victoria, ABC West Coast SA, ABC Wide Bay, Heywire, List of ABC radio stations. Excerpt: 720 ABC Perth (callsign: 6WF) is a radio station located in Perth, Western Australia broadcasting on 720 kHz on the AM band. The station is a member of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's ABC Local Radio network. East Perth Studios6WF transmitted its first broadcast on Wednesday 4 June 1924. It was originally owned by Westralian Farmers Co-operative, and operated from a studio in the Westralian Farmers building in Perth. The Premier of Western Australia, Philip Collier made a speech on-air to mark the opening of the station. The station was equipped with a transmitter that was the most powerful allowed under Commonwealth regulations. It was intended as a source of "information and entertainment to rural areas." The station's original broadcast footprint covered most of the state of Western Australia. In 1929 the radio station was sold to the Australian Broadcasting Company. As a result the radio station moved from the Westralian Farmers buildings to the ESA Bank building on the corner of Hay and Milligan Streets in Perth. When the Australian Broadcasting Commission was founded in 1932, 6WF became part of the national network. The station moved again in 1937 to the Stirling Institute building located in the Supreme Court Gardens, St Georges Terrace. Despite the fact the building had been built 21 years earlier as a temporary structure it became the home of 6WF for the next 23 years. In 1960 a specially built 23 studio building complex was completed at 191 Adelaide Terrace 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 alongside three 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. The Adelaide Terrace site was sold to property developers in 2008 who have proposed demolishing
