ABC Local Radio stations broadcast across the continent using terrestrial transmitters and satellites.

Depending on the time of day and the day of the week, programming can either be purely local (typically on weekday mornings), broadcast from the state or territory capital city ABC station, or simulcast across all ABC Local Radio services across the country (typically overnight, public holidays, in the summer months and on weekends).

The Regional Radio stations provided local programming in Breakfast and Drive, but networked common content for most of their broadcasting hours.

Up until the mid-1990s, the majority of the local radio stations identified on-air by frequency and callsign.

[citation needed] In 2000, these two almost identical networks merged as ABC Local Radio.

[citation needed] In January 2017, ABC Local Radio rebranded with a new logo, dropping the frequency number of each local radio station as part of the network's multiplatform philosophy.