Radio Dungog streams community radio live from Dungog, a country town on the Williams River in New South Wales' Hunter region, on 107.9 FM. Press play on Radio Shuffle and you get local voices, local music and local talk, free and instantly, anywhere in the world.
From a Visitor Centre Booth to a Purpose-Built Studio
Radio Dungog, run by Dungog Community Radio Incorporated under a temporary community broadcasting licence, spent roughly twelve years operating out of a small booth near the town's visitor centre before the committee decided the space had become unworkable (News of the Area). Grants from the NSW Government funded a move to purpose-built studios at the Dungog Showground, officially opened on November 25, 2025, with roughly $250,000 spent on the build itself and a further $120,000 on fitting out the new facility. A new aerial on nearby Coorei Hill has since quadrupled the station's potential audience, letting the signal reach well beyond the town boundary for the first time.
A Town Built Around a Historic Cinema
Dungog's cultural identity runs through a single, century-old building. The James Theatre first opened on land belonging to James Stuart back in December 1912, and after decades of decline, Dungog Shire Council stepped in to buy and restore it in 1979 (Wikipedia). That cinema became the anchor for the Dungog Film Festival, launched in 2007 as a non-competitive showcase of Australian screen content exclusively, which grew from roughly 1,000 attendees to around 10,000 before folding in 2012. The Dungog Arts Foundation, the Shire Council and the NSW Government relaunched it as the Dungog Festival in 2014, and the event took on new meaning in 2015, when it doubled as a community response to flooding that had hit the region, described by Destination NSW as proof of the town's resilience.
Dairy Country With a Growing Audience
Set in dairy and timber country with a 2021 census population of 9,541, Dungog is a small town by any measure, which makes its community station's recent investment in new studios and a stronger signal a genuinely significant local story. Training for young presenters, including a recently launched weekly album show, is now happening in a facility built specifically for the job rather than a makeshift booth, a sign of a volunteer-run station taking its own growth seriously.
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