Our Broadcast Services

Print Radio Tasmania broadcasts via three transmitters strategically placed adjacent to the major population centres of Hobart, Launceston and Devonport.

The Hobart transmitter broadcasts on 864AM in the MW band and has a large coverage - from Oatlands in the North, to parts of the Huon Valley in the South and along the East Coast from the Tasman Peninsular to Bicheno. The price we pay for this large coverage is the high electricity bills. The transmitter mast is located at Sandford on an area, which despite being frequently flooded during winter and spring rains, provides the ideal physical environment for AM broadcasting.

The Launceston transmitter broadcasts on the FM band on 106.9 MHz. Being an FM transmitter, the mast is situated on the Emergency Services Antenna System on the Brougham Street Reserve at West Launceston. This ensures maximum transmission from our limited transmission transmitter power.

At Devonport, our signal is broadcast on 96.1 MHz FM from a mast on Kelsey Tier, west of Spreyton on the North West Coast. The Mast is the property of Grant Broadcasters who also broadcast from there.

We now also broadcast on DAB+, a 'line-of-sight' service in the Hobart area.

Our Studios

Our station is located at the top of Davey St in Hobart, in a building at the rear of the historic Highbury House. Our sandstone building is also heritage listed and is called the "Coach House". This was its function in bygone days. It has been extensively modified inside to be more effectively used to house recording and broadcast studios.

We have four fully functioning studios which are available to be used simultaneously for Live Broadcasting and recording programs and interviews.

What happens to the audio from the studios?

When a studio is broadcasting "live to air", this is what happens before it gets to your AM/FM/DAB+ Radio .

The signal goes into our plant room where the Northern feed is put through an audio signal processor to make it sound better for you - better bass and clearer mid range frequencies. It then gets sent to audio codecs which transfer the audio via the internet to the northern transmission sites. Codecs at each site extract the audio and send it to the transmitters.

For the Sandford Transmitter, the studio codec sends the unprocessed audio to another codec at the Sandford site. It then gets processed and then goes to the transmitter. There is also a diesel generator on site to cope with power outages that may result from electrical storm events or scheduled maintenance on the power infrastructure.