Hawkesbury Radio

rdf:langString Hawkesbury Radio

rdf:langString Hawkesbury Radio 89.9 FM

rdf:langString Hawkesbury Radio 89.9 FM

rdf:langString circa 1978

rdf:langString Hawkesbury, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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rdf:langString Hawkesbury Radio Communications Cooperative Society Limited

rdf:langString Hawkesbury Radio 89.9 (call sign: 2VTR) community radio stations in the Hawkesbury. Hawkesbury Radio's primary purpose is to serve the residents of the Australian City of Hawkesbury, Hawkesbury Radio broadcasts on the frequency 89.9 FM. The station is staffed by volunteers Hawkesbury Radio was the only Community Radio Station in Australia to have Broadcast rights of NRL which featured Penrith Panthers NRL matches, from 1997 to 2009. In 2016 the station gained broadcast rights to Western Sydney Wanderers A-League matches as well as W-League, National Youth League and FFA Cup matches involving the Wanderers Hawkesbury Radio began in 1978 with a test broadcast, gaining its full licence in 1982, one of the first local community radio licences granted. The station broadcast out of a tiny condemned building, which housed the studio and transmitter on Fitzgerald Street Windsor for many years, before moving to its current site in 1992 in an adjacent building. Hawkesbury Radio originally broadcast on 89.7 MHz, but moved to its current frequency of 89.9 MHz in December 1999.