Radio Northern Beaches Studio Location is 8-12 Yulong Road, Terrey Hills NSW. Located next to the Terrey Hills Community Centre. Telephone (02) 9451-4887.
Radio Northern Beaches (callsign 2MWM) is an
Australian
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volunteer-based
community radio
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station transmitting from studios located in the suburb of
Terrey Hills
Terrey Hills is a suburb of Northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 25 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of Northern Beaches Council. It is part of the Forest District and ...
serving the
Northern Beaches
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area of
Sydney
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.
It broadcasts on 88.7 MHz to the north of the peninsula, covering from
Palm Beach on the coast, inland to Terrey Hills, in the west. The south of the peninsula is covered on 90.3 MHz including the suburbs of
Manly,
Balgowlah
Balgowlah is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Balgowlah (or Bulgowlah) said to be an Aboriginal name for "North Harbour". The area now known as Balgowlah was known to the Aboriginals as Jilling.
Balgowla ...
,
Fairlight and
Seaforth. The coverage area is shown in this coverage map.
Radio Northern Beaches is run by the Manly-Warringah Media Co-operative Ltd.
Programs
The Manly Warringah Media Co-operative Ltd is set up in the belief that individuals and groups within the community ought to have opportunity to speak to the community in the most effective way possible - radio, television, press and film.
The supply of those means in the hope that facilities offered will bring about a more effective and creative community life, break down prejudice and remove isolation where such isolation has negative results is a primary object of the co-operative. (Rule 13)
The mission of Radio Northern Beaches is to provide opportunities for individuals and groups within the Manly-Warringah-Pittwater area to make programs. As such, every program that goes to air is made by people from the local area. The
co-op
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-control ...
aims to encourage many broadcasting to many rather than few broadcasting to many.
Introductory training workshops are held regularly to introduce new members to the radio station.
All members of Radio Northern Beaches are volunteers.
See also
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