Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Australian Newcastle Broadcasting and Television Corporation was officially opened on 4 March 1962. It broadcast on Channel 3. It covered as far north as Bungwahl, as far west as Aberdeen and as far south as Broken Bay. The first news was read by Murray Finlay at 6pm on the first day of transmission. Transmission times in the early years were 3pm to 10.30pm Monday-Saturday and 1pm to 11.30pm Sundays. It was the first station to introduce a one hour news service in March 1974. The name was changed to NBN in October 1979. Before aggregation, NBN had expanded as far north as Forster/Tuncurry, as far west as Muswellbrook and as far south as the Hawsberry River. On aggregation on 31 December 1991, NBN expanded to the whole of Northern New South Wales. Frequencies from then were; North West 31, Coffs Harbour 34/66, Armidale 39, Glen Innes 41, Inverell 44, Lismore 47, Tamworth 61, Taree 26/50, Tweed 69 and Newcastle still on 3. NBN has 3 different areas; North Coast, North West and Newcastle/Hunter/Central Coast. From aggregation NBN broadcast in Stereo and 24 hours a day. In 1992, NBN became a member of NAS (Nine Affiliate Sales) set up by WIN Television. Around 1993 the logo changed to the current logo with the Nine dots. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.