The ABC: ABC Upper Hunter Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia
By Team MavEtJu on 31-Aug-18. Waypoint GA12696

Cache Details

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Terrain:
Type:	Virtual
Container:	Virtual
Coordinates:	S32° 15.789' E150° 53.295' (WGS 84)
	56H 301086E 6428438N (UTM)
Elevation:	156 m
Local Government Area:	Muswellbrook

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Description

The ABC: ABC Upper Hunter

ABC Upper Hunter commenced as a local relay of Newcastle's 2NC (now 1233 ABC Newcastle) in 1964. While there was some local information on the station, the reporter responsible was based in Newcastle. It wasn't until 1990 when a local office of the ABC was established in the Upper Hunter, basing itself in Market Lane Muswellbrook. Mike Pritchard joined the broadcaster from the Scone Advocate newspaper, and has been the station's rural reporter ever since, even acting as the lone employee in the region on occasion. In 1997, the station moved to its current facilities in Brook Street.

Throughout 2009, the station's programming went on hiatus while the studios were upgraded with digital equipment. Rural programming came from ABC New England North West, while local news and other programming continued to originate from ABC Newcastle. Regular programming resumed mid-year once the upgrade was complete.

Radio National program Late Night Live often originates from these studios, as presenter Phillip Adams and his partner Patrice Newell own an organic farm in the area.

For more historical information, please visit the About ABC Upper Hunter page on the ABC website.

When you log this virtual, please add a photo of yourself and/or your GNSSr in front of the building with the ABC logo on it.

Logs

04-Apr-24

Gullivers Travels54

we are on our way home from the mega in Canberra and stopped here for the cache TFTC

15-Apr-22

Shifter Brains

We were staying in town at the showground overnight so had to complete a few caches while in the are. This was the first one of eight. Thanks for the virtual.

14-Apr-22

BigMatDozer

Having a quick stop over on the way home to Armidale for the holidays to fill the car and our bellies, so we decided to have a quick tour of Muswellbrook to grab some GCA finds.

Good to see another "ABC kids sign" even a relatively small one like this.
For a bonus we even managed to get the ABC car in the shot!

Thanks for the sightseeing stop!

14-Jul-21

Banj5150

found on a cool and overcast Wednesday morning

06-Apr-21

LuckyL10n

#GA5231 - 13:55; Day 12 of a road trip with Sol de lune for the CacheQLD - Dayboro Mega and we are now headed for home. After spending the night in Tamworth, we collected a few more caches in the area then caching our way through Gunnedah, Quirindi, Murrurrundi, Scone and Aberdeen before reaching Muswellbrook where we collected some newer caches which have been published since either of us was last in the area, including this one. TFTC Team MavEtJu Very Happy

Rated: for Overall Experience

06-Apr-21

Sol de lune

Another town on the way home, another ABC office. No issues here and the photo was snapped.

Thanks again for the series Team MavEtJu...

Rated: for Overall Experience

20-Jan-21

Outdoornut22

Out grabbing some of the trigs and caches around Singleton and Muswellbrook today with Sophoutloud. Such a beautiful day and not to hot either. Nice and easy to spot in the town of Muswellbrook. Quick photo and on our way to the next one

Rated: for Overall Experience

13-Nov-20

Team737

On our way to Scone before heading into Barrington Tops, we managed a mixed bag of finds today, 5 trigs and a virtual, and a swag of GC stuff including 7 FTFs.... another ABC!

Rated: for Overall Experience

05-Sep-20

TG47

Smittengranny and I are travelling from Glen Innes to Muswelbrook today gathering photos of as many trigs and Virtuals as we can on the way. Thanks for publishing this Virtual team mavetju

05-Sep-20

Smittengranny

TG47 and I are travelling from Glen Innes to Muswelbrook today gathering photos of as many trigs and Virtuals as we can on the way. Thanks for publishing this virtual team mavetju Clapping

Rated: for Overall Experience

02-Sep-20

Lis + Pete

Slow down and a photo taken

22-Mar-20

albida33

Tamworth and Amrmidale Trip March 2020. Day 1. I headed north with Fitzy_1965 along the New England Highway. We were headed to Tamworth but only made it as far as Scone on the first day. It was a long day of driving with caching only in the afternoon. We stopped for a few trigs & places along the way.

Thanks
Albida

22-Mar-20

fitzy_1965

GCA 2,773. Found with albida33 during a caching run around the Tamworth/Armidale region.

Can't drive past a neat Virtual - especially if its an ABC one !

TFTC !!

Rated: for Overall Experience

10-Jul-19

Tassie Trekkers

Caching in the area and snapped the required pic which has been added to the gallery.

Many thanks Team MavEtJu for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.

Tassie Trekkers are now a locationless geocache we have published a 'Geocacher cache' - Travelling Trekkers GA10932 - so if you spot us in your area sign our log book and receive a code word to earn yourself a Very Happy

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