Christmas Island Radio Stations

Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, has a listening culture as mixed as its population of Chinese, Malay and European Australians. Local community broadcasting has operated alongside relays of Australian national networks including ABC services, with programming reflecting English, Mandarin, Cantonese and Malay speakers. Announcements about phosphate mining operations, red crab migrations and cyclone alerts give island radio a distinctly local flavour no mainland station could replicate.