TYGA FM

TYGA FM - 98.9 on the Tasmanian dial - is the community station for the Derwent Valley and the Southern Central Highlands, a region of hop fields, hydro history and small towns west of Hobart. Its own phrase for the job: serving the people of the Derwent Valley and Southern Highlands in beautiful Tasmania.

The music mix is tagged country, rock and pop - the honest country-radio blend that suits a valley of farmers, tradespeople and weekenders - with local voices and community programming threaded between the songs.

The station runs on sponsors, donations and subscriptions from the people it serves, keeps a blog of TYGAbytes for local odds and ends, and welcomes new announcers from the community. English-language and free to stream online, it makes an easy community web radio listen - the sound of the Derwent Valley, from New Norfolk and the hop kilns to anywhere in the world.