It is the Upper Hunter service of the ABC Local Radio network, and serves Muswellbrook and surrounding areas.

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 was the station's rural reporter until his retirement in 2021,[1] even acting as the lone employee in the region on occasion.

The station relays its programs on the FM band from three transmitter sites, all using the callsign 2HVR (as in Hunter Valley Radio).

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