ABC Local Radio Christmas Day national schedule
Overnight: Michael Pavlich
Breakfast: Alice Zaslavsky
10am-12pm: Bridie Tanner
12pm-1pm: 100 Years of ABC Radio Sydney special
Afternoon: Ashwin Segkar
Drive: Lisa Pellegrino
Evening: Jess McGuire
Nightlife: Rod Quinn
(updated 25/12/2023)
This week’s ABC Melbourne schedule from Boxing Day - when test cricket is on analogue radio and/or when cricket is interrupted by rain
Overnights: Michael Pavlich (Tuesday-Thursday), Tim Webster (Friday)
Breakfast: Warwick Long
10am-1pm: Cathie Schnitzerling
Afternoons: Brian Nankervis (Tuesday), Jacinta Parsons (Wednesday-Friday)
Drive: Joel Rheinberger
Evenings: Jess McGuire
Nightlife: Rod Quinn (Tuesday-Thursday), Suzanne Hill (Friday)
ABC local radio Qld had storm updates yesterday, I caught the final one by chance at 8:30pm, was a widespread storm warning into the central highlands/Emerald area.
The young male doing the updates said Bern Young doing a special local show on abc Gold Coast from 6am for storm info.
Had me thinking, were there also local Boxing Day morning following the early Xmas evening storms? Damage was compared by Energex as intense as The Gap storms yet more widespread.
Also, did Bern get a call up this summer for any national shifts as has in past years?
Any local emergency updates or programs on ABC Gold Coast or Brisbane for the storm this morning which has closed theme parks, initiated flood warnings and also to limit driving if conditions are extreme?
There has been half-hourly updates since the Breakfast program finished this morning. Some interviews and bits of press conferences run as well. Heard David Illife and Cathie Schnitzerling doing them earlier.
This week’s ABC Melbourne weekday schedule (January 8-12)
Overnights: Ashwin Segkar (Monday-Thursday), Tim Webster (Friday)
Breakfast: Matt Tilley
Mornings: Richard Willingham
11am-1pm: Cathie Schnitzerling
Afternoons: Jacinta Parsons
Drive: Dr Bridie O’Donnell
Evenings: David Astle (Monday-Thursday), Helen Shield (Friday)
Nightlife: Dom Knight (Monday-Thursday), Bern Young (Friday)
Sonya Feldholf and Jules Schiller starting on Breakfast tomorrow morning, which will now now start at 5:30 instead of 6:15. Paul Gough will be filling in on mornings this week.
11am-1pm will be hosted by Cathie Schnitzerling (Brisbane), and Jacinta Parsons (Melbourne) will continue to present national afternoons.
Regional Drive presenter James Findlay has been presenting a state-wide drive program since last week, and will continue to do so next week. Helen Shield (Hobart) will be hosting semi-national evenings.
Usual Saturday breakfast presenter Deb Tribe has been continuing to present over summer, and will be on again this weekend. Angela Catterns (North Coast) will continue to present summer weekend mornings.
Nic Healey (Shepparton) has been presenting Australia All Over for the past two weeks, and will continue this week.
Bern said on Friday that she is also filling in next two weekends.
The World Today and PM also return tomorrow after a two week break
Lisa Pellegrino filling in on national evenings tonight (Jan 7).
In Adelaide, new afternoons presenter Nikolai Beilharz (Previous Adelaide breakfast presenter) start on Afternoons and Jo Laverty (Previous Darwin breakfast presenter) start on Drive today. From Monday, Nikolai will go head to head with his former Breakfast co-host Stacey Lee, who will be doing afternoons on FiveAA.
Evenings presenter Jason Chong returns on Monday, with the show now going out to the Northern Territory. Appears NT will miss the first hour, and will instead take the second and third hours live. NT will get Nightlife on a 30-minute delay, but appears to be getting Overnights live according the online schedule, with Conversations and a portion of the WA Early Mornings program filling the gap between 4:30am and 6am.
David Bevan returns to the morning program on Monday, while Spence Denny will begin presenting SA Sunday Mornings from next Sunday.
South Australia and Broken Hill are also now getting overnights live, with Adelaide Breakfast presenters Sonya Feldholf and Jules Schiller doing a statewide half-hour at 5.30 to fill the gap. The 5.30-6.00 gap on Saturdays will be filled with a “best of The SA Country Hour” program.
Sonya has also been presenting solo the past two days.
Matt Preston and Catharine Murphy will be hosting a special national program from Melbourne Park this Saturday between 10am and 12pm, in place of Angela Catterns who’s been doing the same shift over summer. Angela will still be presenting on Sunday.
Lisa Pellegrino will be filling in on national evenings again this Sunday.
Both will be presenting again next week. Ashwin will also be presenting the week after.
Rod Quinn (Sydney) presenting Nightlife Monday-Thursday, with Bern Young (Gold Coast) doing Friday-Sunday
Broadcaster and author Antoinette Lattouf has accused the ABC of “racism” and discriminating against people of Arab and Muslim backgrounds after she was sacked for social media posts.
Accusing the ABC of being “unsafe” for people of colour, Lattouf claims other journalists are on the brink of quitting after management threw them “under the bus” over strict rules about commenting on the Israel-Hamas war.
“Even for non-diverse journalists, my sacking and the sacking of others has a chilling effect on journalism. People are now too scared to report without fear or favour,” Ms Lattouf said.
“Despite the ABC’s rhetoric about diversity and inclusion, it is currently an unsafe workplace for journalists who are people of colour.”
While I very much disagree with some of the things Ms Lattouf has said on social media, she does raise some good points.
The ABC has really painted themselves into a corner here with how harshly they’ve responded to any inflammatory commentary (and not even on their platform) on the Israel-Gaza matter, when they have a track record of allowing inflammatory commentary on their own platforms when it comes to things like the monarchy and indigenous affairs (look at how much they came to the defence of Stan Grant).
I wouldn’t go as far as to say there’s evidence of racism against people of colour in the ABC, but there does seem to be some evidence of bias against people of Middle Eastern descent.
Craig Reucassel started on ABC Sydney Breakfast yesterday. Simon Marnie has been presenting for most of summer, bar last week, with Chris Taylor (Monday-Thursday) and Suzanne Hill (Friday) filling in. Suzanne Hill has also been filling in on Mornings this week, with Deborah Clay on Afternoons, Rod Quinn on Drive, and Andrea Ho on Evenings. Chris Taylor listed to present Saturday Breakfast tomorrow.
Their coverage has been severely lacking which doesn’t do them any favours either. There seems to be no interest in objective reporting.
It doesn’t help either that a large swathe of our media (across the board) have been beneficiaries of Israeli hospitality (of some shape or form) which appears to make it nigh on impossible to report the crisis objectively.
If the ABC was concerned about her ability to ‘objectively’ report the situation, then they’d not have put her on air to start with. She’d made her views on the matter pretty clear on social media and it’s hard to see how they’d meet and measure of neutrality that the broadcaster would use. To get rid of her mid-week (and it appears on the back of political-style pressure at higher levels within the broadcaster) just makes the whole situation a farce.
In this case, it seems like there is an inability to separate Hamas from the Palestinian people more broadly and this is being used to justify some pretty shoddy reporting (and treatment).