Broadcast area Townsville RA1 Slogan Hits & Old School Owner Southern Cross Austereo First air date January 26, 1994 | Branding hit103.1 Frequency 103.1 MHz FM Motto Hits & Old School Sister station 4TO FM | |
City Townsville, Queensland, Australia Repeater(s) 93.1 FM Mt Inkerman 107.9 FM Bowen | ||
hit103.1 Townsville (ACMA callsign: 4TSV) is an Australian commercial radio station in Queensland. Owned and operated as part of Southern Cross Austereo's Hit Network, it broadcasts a contemporary hit radio format to Townsville, Queensland. First broadcast in 1932 as 4AY on 891 kHz AM, and then from 1987 as 4RR until, in 1994, the station relaunched on the FM band as active rock-formatted Hot FM. At the time, the station was owned by Rural Press - later sold to dmg Regional Radio, then Macquarie Regional RadioWorks and Southern Cross Media Group.
On 16 August 2016, a repeater was switched on from Mt Inkerman, south of Home Hill, covering the Burdekin region 93.1 MHz.
On December 15 2016, HOT FM was relaunched as hit103.1 in line with other SCA Hit Network stations.