Radio Newcastle 1629 AM

Radio Newcastle broadcasts on 1629 AM from Cooks Hill, in the port city of Newcastle, New South Wales. It is a community narrowcast station kept alive by volunteers, twenty-four hours a day, with a playlist built for easy company: easy listening, jazz, country, light pop and light rock, instrumentals, and classics spanning the 1930s to the 1980s.

Narrowcast stations like this one occupy the top end of the AM band, away from the big commercial licenses, and 1629 has made a home there for listeners who prefer their radio gentle and familiar. Newcastle, the coal port two hours north of Sydney, has always had a strong community radio tradition, and this station is part of it. For locals it is the quiet neighbor on the dial; for everyone else, the online stream carries the same easy classics anywhere in the world, at any hour.