ABC Sydney

ABC Sydney broadcasts on 702 AM under the call sign 2BL, on air since 1923 - one of the very first radio stations in Australia, older than the ABC itself. As the local station of the national broadcaster for Sydney, it opens the day for the city: breakfast talk, morning programs, drive time, and news that follows Sydney from the harbour to the western suburbs. Through a century on air it has carried everything from the first cricket broadcasts to bushfire emergencies, when the ABC frequency becomes a lifeline.

The conversation on 702 is the conversation of the biggest city in the country: NSW politics, the property market, the beaches and the traffic, with talkback lines open to anyone with an opinion. For Sydneysiders overseas or interstate, the station streams live online, so the voice of 2BL is never further away than a phone.