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There's not all that many regional Australian radio stations streaming their programs on the internet, but as of this week, there's one more: 3GV, broadcasting from Sale in eastern Victoria, on 1242 kHz.

However, the station will only exist with this name for one more day; according to The Spy Report, the station will be relaunched on Friday November 30th, 2007, at midday, with a new name of Gold 1242, playing oldies.

The station's stream is here.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation will launch its third domestic television station, ABC3, in April 2008, if government funding goes ahead. Australia is currently in the middle of a federal election, and the governing conservative coalition has promised $80 million to the ABC for the station, dedicated towards commercial-free children's programming, if re-elected.

The ABC currently broadcasts two domestic channels, ABC-TV (analog and digital) and ABC2 (digital only). ABC2 currently carries a large amount of childrens programming during daylight hours, and it is unknown if this programming will continue after the launch of the new channel.

All India Radio, India's public broadcaster, has a novel on-demand service: users can select one of a number of songs from a list, dial a number on their phone and then enter a code. The song selected will then be queued to be played over a transmitter in Chennai, Kolkata or Mumbai, during selected times.