ABC North Coast (2NR) is our local station broadcasting to the Northern Rivers Region of NSW, covering towns and cities including Lismore, Grafton, Ballina, Byron Bay, Mullumbimby, Casino, Murwillumbah and Tweed Heads.

One of the jewels in the crown of 2NR is the highly esteemed Angela Catterns, who presents the popular Saturday Morning Breakfast Show. Angela’s smooth, professional and highly entertaining presentation reflects her depth of knowledge and understandings gained over an amazingly varied and extraordinarily successful career in media. 

After working in Regional Radio and TV as an advertising copywriter, Angela became a reporter on a new children’s TV show, Simon Townsend’s Wonder World. Angela’s journey with the ABC began in the mid ’80s as a producer with Sydney Youth Radio Station Triple J. Her on-air career was launched when she filled in for a colleague with a broken ankle, leading to Angela presenting the Weekend Breakfast Show and later the Drive Show. 

Headhunted by a high-profile commercial station, Angela lasted 18 months before being told: “Women don’t like listening to women on radio and we think you’re too intelligent for our audience”. Angela became a researcher for SBS, then presented on Radio WKYS in Washington DC, before returning to Australia where she became morning presenter on the now ‘national’ Triple J. A trip to Lismore to crown the newly ‘unearthed’ band Grinspoon led to a permanent move back to the country and a shift to ‘the ABC for grown ups’, with Angela hosting an acclaimed national evening program from the Lismore studios.

Angela was enticed back to Sydney around 2000 with the challenge of taking on the Breakfast Show at 702 where she took the number one rating off Alan Jones in 2003! The Summer Breakfast Show at 702 with Wendy Harmer, along with trailblazing podcasts, were more milestones in Angela Catterns’ phenomenal career.

Angela Catterns once reflected “the secret is to imagine you are talking to your best friend in the next room”. Angela has many best friends listening in on 2NR on Saturday mornings.