The morning programme for people who have somewhere to be. Everything you need before you leave the house arrives in short, repeated blocks, so missing one does not mean missing it, and the music between them never asks for more attention than you have at that hour.
A station that keeps your hours.
The name reads AM to PM, and that is the whole promise. Switch on at five in the morning or five past midnight and the station already sounds like the hour you are living in.
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Radio AM2PM
From the first alarm to the last light.
This station is not streaming yet. The schedule below is what is planned, and this player starts working the moment the stream goes live.
Through the day
All times Australian Eastern. The stream runs 24 hours.
First LightFor the people already up: bakers, nurses on handover, anyone driving while it is still dark. Low volume, clear information, nothing shouted at you.
ScheduledThe Early ShiftThe wake up programme. Weather, roads and what the day is going to ask of you, in short bursts between music you can get dressed to.
ScheduledMid MorningThe house goes quiet and the station stretches out. Longer songs, longer conversations, and the stories the early bulletins only had time to headline.
ScheduledMidday ResetBuilt to fit inside a lunch break: a run of talk, a run of music, and a clean finish so you can get back to it without missing an ending.
ScheduledThe Long AfternoonSchool pick up through to knock off. The tempo lifts, the phone lines open, and the drive home starts before you do.
ScheduledEvening TurnDinner, homework, the second half of the day. The station changes gear here: warmer, slower, less bulletin and more of the thing you actually turned the radio on for.
ScheduledLate SignalNight listening for people who are not finished yet. Long form talk, deeper cuts, and requests from wherever in the country you happen to be.
ScheduledThe Small HoursOvernight and uninterrupted. Music chosen for the quiet, with the time called at the top of every hour so you always know where you are.
ScheduledProgrammes
One hour that assumes you are eating at your desk or in the ute. A single subject taken properly, an interview that is allowed to finish, and a run of songs to walk back in on.
Three hours that carry the day from the last bell to the front door. It gets faster as it goes, because that is what the afternoon does, and it hands you over to the evening rather than stopping dead.
After hours talk and music for shift workers, students, insomniacs and anyone whose day has an extra chapter in it. Fewer interruptions, longer answers, and a standing invitation to call in.
The weekend version of the same idea. Records played at length, sequences allowed to build, and no hard breaks to snap you out of whatever you are doing with your morning.
Ways to listen
In your browserPress play on any page of this site and you join the station live, at whatever hour you happen to arrive. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for, and no closedown message waiting for you at either end of the day.
On your phoneThe stream keeps running in a mobile browser with the phone in your pocket, so a commute is one continuous hour rather than two halves with a gap in the middle of it.
On a smart speakerSet the stream up once and the speaker keeps the station's hours for you. Ask for it before dawn and it comes on quiet and practical. Leave it running into the evening and it warms and slows without anybody touching a thing. Same address, same station, a different room of the day every time you walk past it.
In the carWhatever you already use to play music through the car speakers will carry the stream, including the time called at the top of every hour, which tells you whether you are running late without your hands leaving the wheel.
About
Radio AM2PM starts from one idea: a day has a shape, and radio should follow it. The name reads as AM to PM. From the first alarm to the last light the station moves through the hours with you, instead of playing the same undifferentiated wallpaper at six in the morning and ten at night.
That means the schedule is the product. Mornings are short, practical and repeat themselves, because nobody is listening for very long. Mid morning opens out, because the people still with us have time. Afternoons quicken into the drive, evenings soften, and the overnight hours are built for quiet rather than for filling silence. Cross from one part of the day to the next and you should hear the change before you notice the clock.
We broadcast online from Melbourne. The schedule runs to Australian Eastern time, and the time is called at the top of every hour, which matters more than it sounds when you are listening from another state, another country, or from a night shift where the hours have come loose. There is no dead air and no closedown. The station runs 24 hours because a day does.
What you will hear across a full rotation: music chosen for the hour rather than for a chart position, conversation with people who know one thing well, and the practical information a day actually needs. What you will not hear: manufactured outrage, stunts, or a host talking over the end of a song to prove they are still there.
Radio AM2PM is owned and operated by SUKH SANDHU PTY LTD (ACN 679 292 392, ABN 49 679 292 392), an independent online broadcaster based in Melbourne, Australia. If you want to suggest a segment, correct something we said, or ask about advertising on the station, the contact page reaches the studio and the office both.
Questions
What does AM2PM mean?
It reads as AM to PM. The station is built around the full arc of a day, from the pre dawn hours through to the small hours on the other side, with the sound of the station changing as the day changes. It is not a two hour programme and it is not a time slot: it is the whole day, in order.
Where do you broadcast from, and what time zone is the schedule in?
We broadcast online from Melbourne, Australia. Every time on the schedule is Australian Eastern time, shown in 24 hour format, and we call the time at the top of every hour so listeners in other zones can work out where they are without checking a phone.
Does it cost anything to listen?
No. The live stream is free to play in any browser, with no account, no app and no subscription. If you want to support the station, listening at the odd hours and telling someone else about it genuinely helps more than anything else you could do.
I missed a programme. Can I hear it again?
Live is the point of a station like this, so the first answer is that the same hour comes around again tomorrow, built the same way. Where a conversation deserves a second life beyond its slot, we will say so on air and make it available from the programme page.