ABC North Coast

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ABC North Coast
Broadcast area Northern Rivers
Frequency 738 kHz AM Grafton and south
720 kHz AM Tweed Valley and Gold Coast
94.5 mHz FM Lismore and Northern Rivers
91.3 MHz FM Bonalbo
Programming
Format Talk
Ownership
Owner Australian Broadcasting Corporation
History
First air date
17 July 1936
Technical information
Transmitter coordinates
28°48′09.32″S153°17′31.10″E / 28.8025889°S 153.2919722°E / -28.8025889; 153.2919722
Links
Website https://www.abc.net.au/northcoast/

ABC North Coast is an ABC Local Radio station based in Lismore and broadcasting to the Northern Rivers region in New South Wales. This includes the towns and cities of Grafton, Ballina, Byron Bay, Casino and Murwillumbah.

Even though Tweed Heads is in the Northern Rivers region, the city is covered by ABC Gold Coast since Tweed Heads is on the border with the Gold Coast.

The station began as 2NR in 1936 originally based in Grafton, moving to Lismore in 1989. It is heard on these main AM and FM frequencies:

The station airs locally focused programming from 6 am to 11 am. At all other times, it airs programming relayed from ABC Radio Sydney, or regional programming that airs on all provincial Local Radio stations.

Technical information

2NR 738 AM 50,000 watts

2ML 720 AM 400 watts

2NNR 94.5 FM 100,000 watts

2WPR 91.3 FM 50 watts

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