If you happen to be listening to the radio while driving through Sydney, you may hear a familiar Coffs Coast voice coming through your speakers. Reading the news on NovaFM is Matt de Groot who spent four years honing his craft as a teenager on local community radio station CHY-FM. The 26 year-old can be heard with the latest traffic updates and breaking news. The CHY connection at NovaFM doesn’t end there. The program director is Brendan Taylor. The young boy who panelled the very first broadcast from CHY’s current studio after it moved from Jetty Village.