ABC Radio Hobart

Officially opened on 22 June 1938, plans surrounding the initial broadcast of 7ZR were forced to be amended due to a cable fault between Tasmania and the mainland. The opening broadcast was intended to be part of a national program with prime minister Joseph Lyons declaring the station officially open in a live broadcast from Canberra. As a result, 7ZR followed suit and became 936 ABC Hobart. As part of a further nationwide rebrand of ABC stations in 2017, the name of the station changed from 936 ABC Hobart to 936 ABC Hobart. ==Programming==

936 ABC Hobart broadcasts a variety of local programs from its Hobart studios including Breakfast, Mornings, The Country Hour, Your Afternoon, Drive and Evenings. The station also broadcasts a weekend edition of Breakfast, a local Saturday morning sport program Local Grandstand and a Sunday Mornings program. All local programs on 936 ABC Hobart with the exception Breakfast and Drive are simulcast on ABC Northern Tasmania in Launceston. Since 2021, the national current affairs program AM has originated from the 936 ABC Hobart studios after its presenter Sabra Lane relocated to Tasmania from the mainland. Lane is known for always introducing AM with the palawa kani name for Hobart by saying "Good Morning and welcome to AM, I'm Sabra Lane coming to you from nipaluna / Hobart..." All other national programs on 936 ABC Hobart originate from ABC stations on the mainland. The longest-serving presenters to have worked at 936 ABC Hobart include Bob Curé OAM, Ric Paterson, Ken Short, Chris Wisbey, Tim Cox, Annie Warburton, Stan Murrowood, Louise Saunders and Ryk Goddard among others. Breakfast presenters Bob Curé OAM is believed to be the longest serving Breakfast presenter at the station, starting at 7ZR in 1967 and retiring in 1997. Upon his retirement, Paterson was replaced on Breakfast with Andy Muirhead who began hosting the show on 29 January 2007. Muirhead's radio career came to an abrupt end in 2010 when he was charged with accessing child pornography. He was immediately stood down from the ABC and in 2012, he pleaded guilty to the charges, blaming his roles as ABC Hobart's Breakfast presenter and as host of the national ABC TV show Collectors as the reason he was driven to look at child pornography as a way to "relax". He was sentenced to a total of ten months in prison. He was released early in January 2013 and placed on the Tasmanian sex offenders register until 2018. ==Transmission==

It currently broadcasts on 936 kHz on the AM band. Originally the station broadcast on 1160 kHz, in 1953 switched to 940 kHz, and in 1978 to the present frequency. 936 ABC Hobart also operates a low power repeater station covering the Orford and Triabunna area where the AM signal is received poorly. This service broadcasts from Moreys Hill, Triabunna using the FM band on a frequency of 90.5 MHz. ABC Northern Tasmania simulcasts 936 ABC Hobart's programming when not airing local shows for their region. 936 ABC Hobart is also carried on Hobart's National DAB Multiplexers. Transmission sites are at the Broadcast Australia Facility on Mt Wellington and Broadcast Australia's White Rock site. The DAB service varies slightly from the AM/FM version as most of the sport content is carried on national DAB sister station ABC Sport. ==Ratings==

936 ABC Hobart has performed reasonably well in ratings surveys. It was the most listened-to station in Hobart in 2016 and 2017 before losing some market share to become the third most listened-to station in the city in 2022, falling behind 7HO and Hit 100.9. ==References==