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Anzac Day 2023 on ABC Radio

Dawn Services

The Sydney Dawn Service will be broadcast live on the ABC listen app and streamed live on ABC Radio Sydney from 4.30am (AEST), followed by the National Commemorative Dawn Service from Canberra on RN, ABC Local Radio, and on the ABC listen app from 5.30am (AEST).

Melbourne’s Dawn Service will be available on ABC Radio Melbourne and its Facebook page from 6.00am (AEST).

Adelaide and Darwin dawn services will be streamed live from 6.00am to 7.00am (ACST) on ABC Radio Adelaide and ABC Radio Darwin’s Facebook pages.

ABC Local Radio will cover the dawn services in Brisbane, Hobart and Perth which will also be streamed on their local Facebook pages.

Anzac Day marches

ABC Local Radio, ABC listen app and ABC Capital City Radio Facebook pages will cover Anzac Day marches in all capital cities as well as some regional marches. From 9.00am (AEST).

ABC listen will feature a special pop-up Anzac Day channel, with live broadcasts of various services, along with oral history programs from RN and feature interviews from ABC Local Radio. The channel will run from 6.00pm on 24 April to 6.00pm on 25 April (AEST).

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Chris Taylor is filling in for James Valentine for the next couple of weeks (and even has stings that say it).
Sarah Macdonald is off with a broken ankle.

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Tim Webster is filling in for Suzanne Hill on Nightlife this weekend.

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Who thought Tim Webster would ever end up on the ABC. It’s weird hearing him there. He always sounded so commercial.

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He also mentioned last night he’ll be covering Overnights next week covering for Rod Quinn, and a few other shifts coming up.

Also the change is due to Suzanne filling in on Sydney mornings this week and next for Sarah Macdonald who is recovering from a serious ankle injury.

The Sydney EPG says Renee Krosch will do next weeks Weekend Nightlife.

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Took me a while to find out who it was though, he kept saying he was filling in and who he was filling in for but wasn’t mentioning his name very often. Knew who he was once he said it was Tim Webster but being in an area where we didn’t grow up with his voice, it was hard to work out - plus he kept saying ABC Radio Sydney even though he was on nationally.

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He’s done a couple of afternoon shifts on ABC Sydney before.

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Is ABC Radio covering the Kings Coronation?

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Wouldn’t surprise me. Would be better with the visuals.

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They will… I suspect NewsRadio would have the fullest coverage, either through simulcasting the World Service or News 24 TV (the latter is covering it from 5pm). The online streams of Local Radio come in at 7pm Eastern and I’m guessing will either end at or pre-empt a little of Nightlife.

I guess someone out there knows whether it’ll bump sport off the AM/FM feeds… you’d think so but ABC doesn’t give out details of the AM/FM feed on their web site, only the online version that doesn’t have the sport in the first place.

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The online guides for the radio coverage were empty yesterday but now show coverage from 7pm EST.

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Where do you find these guides?

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ABC Northern Tasmania Schedule - ABC Northern Tasmania

There’s my local one but just change it to your station and the date - has the wrong picture for Tim Webster next week though with him filling in for Rod Quinn on Overnights.

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Yes. The ABC has confirmed ABC Local Radio, News Radio and Radio Australia will take the BBC Radio coverage this Saturday from 7.35pm to 10pm AEST. Nightlife will cross to BBC News’ Rich Preston outside Buckingham Palace after 10pm AEST.

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Good. I’m glad they are just not putting the audio of news 24 on. thats one of the most frustrating things they do for things like state elections - they forget radio and TV are two different mediums at times

The usual sport commitments on Local Radio AM/FM however, so it will only be on Digital Radio and streaming.

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For completeness, the ABC presser with full details for both domestic and Asia-Pacific streams… local radio is listed as “local digital on DAB+, TV channel 25, ABC listen app” confirming that it won’t bump sport off local AM/FM:

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There would be hell to pay if they took sport on analog radio.

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That’s what they’re doing though…

ABC’s sport coverage on digital is on the ABC Sport station. On digital they would be knocking off the snoozefest that is usually on.