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ABC Gippsland (call sign: 3GLR) is an
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station in
Gippsland Gippsland () is a rural region in the southeastern part of Victoria, Australia, mostly comprising the coastal plains south of the Victorian Alps (the southernmost section of the Great Dividing Range). It covers an elongated area of east of th ...
,
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. The station is based in Sale and covers from
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, through to Mallacoota. Mim Hook hosts the Breakfast program produced by Zaida Glibanovic, while Jonathon Kendall presents a Statewide Mornings program produced by Madeleine Spencer from the Sale studio. Journalists at the station include Bec Symons, Natasha Schapova, William Howard, Georgia Lenton-Williams, Fiona Broom and Rachael Lucas. At the time of its opening on 31 October 1935 ABC Gippsland 3GI was the sixth regional station opened by the ABC and the first of its kind in regional Victoria. The station was initially based in Sale's Post Office Building, and boasted what was at the time the tallest mast and most powerful transmitter in the state, located near
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and currently transmits on 828kHz. ABC Gippsland now broadcasts from York Street, Sale. The station was also formerly known as GI FM. Sister station 3MT based at Omeo broadcasts on a frequency of 720kHz.


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