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ABC Radio Brisbane/Queensland line-up this week:

Breakfast: Meech Philpott (Statewide ex-Mackay)
Mornings: Cathie Schnitzerling (National)
Afternoons: Jacinta Parsons (National)
Drive: Sarah Howells (Statewide ex-Sunshine Coast)
Evenings: Bern Young (Semi-National ex-Gold Coast)

Also, Ashwin Segkar has been covering the statewide Saturday Breakfast program the past few weeks (shortened and running 5am until 9am).

Emma Pedler has been hosting Australia All Over the past two Sunday mornings also.

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ABC Melbourne’s 2023 line-up starts today with Sammy J hosting breakfast on Mondays to Thursdays, and Charlie Pickering on Fridays. Alice Zaslavsky is hosting Afternoons from today to Thursday this week while Jacinta Parsons takes a short break.

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ABC raises $1.5m in end-of-year appeal

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The ABC’s annual charity appeal, ABC Gives, has once again raised close to $1.5 million for those most in need in the lead up to the festive season.

Listeners from across the ABC’s network of eight capital city radio stations and 48 regional bureaux responded generously to the call for donations to OzHarvest, Foodbank and Tasmania’s ABC Giving Tree Appeal. The $1.5 million raised will provide more than 2.4 million meals for vulnerable individuals, families and communities, to be distributed across the year.

ABC Radio held “Days of Giving” in November and December which saw ABC presenters and prominent members of the community give their time and support to the event, including ABC Adelaide’s Breakfast presenter Nikolai Beilharz, who shaved his hair, ABC Sydney’s Breakfast host James Valentine offering a home jazz performance and Sydney Drive presenter, Richard Glover promising to pressure-hose a listener’s driveway. The appeal was also included in the ABC’s New Year’s Eve concert and fireworks broadcast.

ABC Director of Regional & Local, Judith Whelan thanked the ABC audience for its generosity. “December and January can be a very tough time of year with many families struggling to put food on the table. The money raised through ABC Gives will give a significant boost to the number of meals OzHarvest and Foodbank can deliver to those who need it most. In some cases, it will mean families will not go hungry.”

Foodbank Australia CEO, Brianna Casey, said: “Foodbank is so grateful for the support of ABC Radio and the ABC Radio Gives Appeal. On any given day in Australia, more than half a million households are struggling to put food on the table, with the cost of living the most common reason for people struggling. Thanks to ABC Gives, we are able to help those doing it tough right now.”

CEO and Founder of OzHarvest, Ronni Kahn said: “We are so grateful for the incredible support of the ABC community and to all the listeners and viewers who donated so generously. At a time when the need for food has never been greater, OzHarvest can now deliver an extra 880,000 meals to Aussies in need!”

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ABC Melbourne off at with a major IT issue, we’re getting ABC Sydney Richard Glover doing his best to be inclusive including crossing to Melbourne traffic and including Melbourne weather.

News and statewide regional drive (not from Southbank) not affected which would normally be the back up so just be something well and truly fried.

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Laura also still doing reports from Mildura area for 9 News Melbourne

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The recording on the ABC Radio website unforunely is only the last hour it seems:

ABC Radio Melbourne suffered some technical difficulties on the afternoon of Friday 20th January, and was unable to broadcast the regular Drive show. Please enjoy a special edition of Richard Glover’s Drive program, courtesy of ABC Radio Sydney.

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Had a listen back to the previous programme The Friday Review. Sounds like amongst other issues the talk back and test lines were down. Raf cam on and described the core of the station was cactus which probably explains why Sydney took over rather than Ballarat.

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Dr Vyom Sharma filling in for Jacinta Parsons on weekday afternoons on ABC Melbourne this week.

EDIT: Jacinta returns on Monday, January 30.

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ABC Illawarra has been running extended local rolling coverage this lunchtime (over Conversations and Country Hour) due to a major storm with intense rainfall falling across the region, causing major road and flooding impacts.

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Full report

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ABC Sunshine Coasts morning line up has changed again.

Emma Cillekens is now doing Breakfast with Sarah Howells moving to Mornings.

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Karen Tighe will host the 3pm-6pm (AEDT) portion of Grandstand this afternoon, for the first time this year.

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675 2CO Corowa in the NSW Riverina was airing NRL Grandstand today.

Normally they air AFL Grandstand, but I’m assuming this is only because the AFL season hasn’t started yet?

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Probably then, plus no cricket on terrestrial radio.

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The cricket has been on 774 during Summer Grandstand including today.

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That’s correct, 2CO only cuts away from the NSW feed when there is AFL on so for the first few weeks of the NRL season 675 takes every NRL game.

This also means that on a Thursday night, if it’s a week without an AFL game on Thursday, you’ll get the NRL on 675. Likewise with the first half of the 6pm Friday game.

There was a curious period of a few weeks last year where they stopped taking AFL, however by about May this was back to normal with the AFL once more pre-empting the NRL.

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Virginia Trioli has taken personal leave from ABC Melbourne.

Edit: Rafael Epstein is currently hosting mornings until Virginia returns. Warwick Long is hosting drive on ABC Melbourne.

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Listen up footy fans! ABC to stream all live footy games on the ABC listen app

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The ABC is excited to announce that this season footy fans will be able to listen to every match of AFL and NRL live and commercial free on the ABC listen app.

ABC’s footy coverage is now even more accessible for footy fans with the introduction of AFL match streaming to ABC listen, and all ABC digital platforms, alongside existing NRL streaming.

Featuring the best commentators and experts in the business, ABC SPORT will bring audiences all the action from pre-game to post-match analysis, including every goal, try, mark and tackle of the AFL and NRL seasons, as well as the Rugby League State of Origin.

The ABC SPORT AFL team includes the biggest names in the game including Cameron Ling, Mick Malthouse, Jason Akermanis, Sharrod Wellingham, Matthew Primus, Lauren Arnell, Rod Jameson, Marc Murphy, Adam Ramanauskas, Brendon Goddard, Brett Deledio, Shane Woewodin, Kara Antonio, Brad Sewell, Nathan Burke, Brent Harvey and Ebony Marinoff, along with the best AFL callers Clint Wheeldon, Corbin Middlemas, Quentin Hull, Matt Clinch, Kelli Underwood, Brett Sprigg, Aaron Bryans and Ben Cameron.

The ABC SPORT NRL team has the most respected experts including Luke Lewis, John Gibbs, Ruan Sims, Michael Carayannis, Matthew Elliott, Dene Halatau, Connor Watson, Billy Moore, Grant Bell, Alan Tongue, Sam Williams, Ryan Hoffman and Clinton Schifcofske, with Andrew Moore, Quentin Hull and Brett Sprigg providing unrivalled play-by-play commentary.

Head ABC SPORT, Nick Morris, says “I’m delighted footy fans can now stream both major footy codes via ABC listen, and while they are there, they can access a range of top-notch sport programs, interviews and podcasts, including Roy & HG and ABC SPORT DAILY.”

Listen to all broadcast matches of AFL and NRL on your home of live sport ABC listen. For NRL, select the ABC SPORT button. For AFL, select the AFL or AFL EXTRA buttons.

For a complete list of where to find Grandstand AFL and Grandstand Rugby League coverage on ABC, visit ABC SPORT FAQs.

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