ABC Newcastle

ABC Newcastle broadcasts on 1233 AM under the call sign 2NC, serving Newcastle and the Hunter Valley - the biggest urban area in Australia outside a capital city. The programming is the ABC local mix done for the Hunter: breakfast and morning talk, local news, and the stories of a region built on coal, steel and the sea.

The station has been part of Newcastle life since 1930, through the steelworks era and the reinvention that followed, through floods and the 1989 earthquake, when local radio carried the city through the worst day in its modern history. On big news days - a storm on the coast, a fire in the valley - it is the frequency the Hunter turns to. ABC Newcastle streams live online, so the region keeps its voice available to former Novocastrians everywhere, at any hour of the day.