ABC North Coast

ABC North Coast - 2NR at birth - began in Grafton on 17 July 1936 and moved its base to Lismore in 1989, serving the Northern Rivers: Grafton, Ballina, Byron Bay, Casino and Murwillumbah. Tweed Heads, oddly, hears ABC Gold Coast instead - border logic being what it is.

Local programming runs 6am to 11am each day, with ABC Radio Sydney and shared regional shows filling the rest, and the signals are mighty: 94.5 FM from Lismore at 100,000 watts, 738 AM from Grafton at 50,000, plus smaller transmitters for the Tweed Valley and Bonalbo.

Floods make this station matter - the Northern Rivers have lived through some of Australia's worst inundations, and its bulletins are part of the region's survival kit. Free to stream online, it makes an easy local news web radio listen - the voice of the Northern Rivers, from Byron's lighthouse and the cane fields of the Clarence to anywhere in the world.