About

Greater Newburyport Community Media Hub, Inc. or NCM Hub, is a 501(c)3 non-profit established to provide access to the tools needed to produce community media and avenues of distribution to share information. NCM Hub is the designated provider of the Newburyport’s Public, Education, and Government (PEG) cable channels serving Newburyport, Massachusetts. NCM Hub cablecasts local programming on Newburyport’s Channel 8 Voice of the People (P-Public: Community programming) and Channel 9 Clipper Cities & Schools (G-Government: Government and Schools programming) and a third channel, Channel 98 The Waterside Channel (E-Education: Local Arts, Culture, History, and Maritime programming). Streaming of all cable programming is available on our website on the SHARE page. NCM Hub holds the FCC license for WJOP-LP 96.3FM Newburyport “Joppa Radio”, a low power community radio station serving the greater Newburyport area with a 3-10 mile radius, also streaming on the website. NCM Hub’s citizen journalism project, the Packet Post, currently shares local press releases. Newburyport Athenaeum is the members’ resource library consisting of digital and physical media resources. Sun Gear Connect is the Hub’s quarterly newsletter which you can subscribe to on the homepage.