Editing ABC Local Radio (section)

==Programming==
The metropolitan and regional stations originate most of their own programming.

Until 2015, the regional stations usually simulcast one of the metropolitan stations when they were not airing local programming. Usually, they simulcast their state's capital city station; an exception was [[999 ABC Broken Hill]], which simulcasts 891 ABC Adelaide because Broken Hill is on Central Time.  In 2015, the ABC formed a Regional Division to again split its regional stations from the metropolitan counterparts.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://about.abc.net.au/press-releases/abc-investment-in-regional-radio-streaming/|title=ABC investment in regional radio streaming|website=About the ABC}}</ref>  1233 ABC Newcastle (2NC) was transferred from the metropolitan network to the new regional division <ref>{{Cite web| url=https://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-abc-cuts-400-jobs-will-go-and-heres-where-the-axe-will-fall-2014-11| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141128221443/http://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-abc-cuts-400-jobs-will-go-and-heres-where-the-axe-will-fall-2014-11| url-status=dead| archive-date=28 November 2014|title=The ABC Cuts: 400 Jobs Will Go - And Here's Where The Axe Will Fall|first=Simon|last=Thomsen|date=24 November 2014|website=Business Insider Australia}}</ref> and 14 of the regional network's member stations began streaming.

In October 2015 a slight restructure of programs was announced. From 2016, ''Morning'' programs will be folded into longer ''Breakfast'' programs, followed by a new one-hour program, ''Local Life''. There would be a loss of four local radio news bulletins; instead, headlines would replace two afternoon full news bulletins.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-30/abc-regional-director-hoses-down-controversy-over-programming-c/6897996|title=ABC Regional director Fiona Reynolds hoses down controversy over programming changes|date=30 October 2015|website= ABC News }}</ref>

There are local news websites for each station.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/local/|title=Find your local ABC|website=www.abc.net.au}}</ref>

Some programmes are aired first on [[ABC Radio National]], then on the Local Radio network. For example,
''Speaking Out'', hosted by [[Larissa Behrendt]], broadcasts ({{as of|lc=yes|2020|9}}) on Radio National on Fridays at 8pm and on Local Radio on Sundays at 9pm.<ref>{{cite web | title=Speaking Out, with Larissa Behrendts | website=ABC Radio | url=https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/speakingout/ | access-date=14 September 2020}}</ref>