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4ZR is an Australian
commercial radio Commercial broadcasting (also called private broadcasting) is the broadcasting of television programs and radio programming by privately owned corporate media, as opposed to state sponsorship, for example. It was the United States' first model ...
station located in
Roma, Queensland Roma is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), 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 ...
. The station broadcasts to the
Maranoa Region Maranoa Region is a Local government in Australia, local government area in South West Queensland, Australia. The town of Roma, Queensland, Roma is the administrative headquarters of the region. In the , the Maranoa Region had a population of 1 ...
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 name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, reno ...
. The station is currently owned by Resonate Broadcasting. Resonate purchased 4ZR in 2015, along with a number of other regional Queensland stations that were formerly part of the
Macquarie Radio Network Nine Radio (formerly Macquarie Media Limited) is an Australian media company, owned by parent company Nine Entertainment and headquartered in North Sydney. The company operates radio stations nationally in the capital cities of Sydney, Melbou ...
. 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 Ray Hadley, Alan Jones and Steve Price.4ZR Program Index
4ZR website. Retrieved 19 November 2016


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