Coastwatch is a coastal information service and was founded by Ken "Brownie: Brown in 1989. For 17 years, "Brownie" worked for Channel 7 Brisbane producing and presenting 300 half hour Coastwatch shows, doing thousands of live cross Coastwatch Reports for 7 News, 30 years providing Coastwatch reports for 4KQ and for many years provided a Coastwatch page for the Courier and Sunday Mail newspapers. The accuracy and relevance of the information Coastwatch provides is due to "Brownie" having spent most of his life on or in the water, fishing, running marlin charters and in general living the coastal life. He currently runs the Coastwatch web site and posts a weekly podcast every Thursday afternoon on the coastal conditions expected for the following weekend