Because in the modern workplace that is not a sufficient reason to not offer someone a job
Also The Australian says it’s 6 months
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An error with Monday afternoon’s programming on ABC Radio Brisbane at 5:30pm meant it took ABC Sydney’s feed for approximately 5 minutes (here at the 2:30 mark) It affected the online stream also 90.3FM Sunshine Coast.
Gorgi Coghlan hosting The Conversation Hour for the remainder on the week.
That show needs to be jettisoned to RN. I’ve not found one interesting interview in all the time it’s been on air. Should be on RN with the rest of the bores.
Also, you may as well extend the ABC Sports Daily bit to 30 minutes, or extend PM to an hour, or start the evening show at 6:30. It feels tacked on.
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@mirb is referring to the Victorian program “The Conversation Hour” which has a different format to the national “Conversations” program (a series of guests discussing a topical issue (or multiple issues)). IMO it’s something that each state/territory should have.
It appears Sports Daily is out of the local radio schedule - local evenings programs have been starting at 6:30 since they came back.
Regional areas still get Australia Wide at 6:30pm - Perth also get’s Australia Wide at 6:30pm due to there being no local evenings program, while Darwin get’s it so it can join in the SA Evenings program at 7pm.
@mirb is referring to the Victorian program “The Conversation Hour” which has a different format to the national “Conversations” program (a series of guests discussing a topical issue (or multiple issues)). IMO it’s something that each state/territory should have.
Funnily enough the ‘Conversations’ program with Richard Fiedler and Sarah Kanosky is already on RN at 3pm and is also one of the ABC’s most consistently popular shows on podcast. I always found it is hit or miss and depends on the guest. Also is one of those shows that you need the whole hour to listen to because if you tune in midway you’ll have no clue or context to what is being discussed.
You’re right, so why can’t they do something like this as part of the normal mornings show? Except don’t call it “Conversations” or “The Conversations Hour”. Call it “State of The State” or something like that.
Good. It felt tacked on. A national sports program does make some sort of sense for the ABC during the week but they made a hash of it. You can’t stick just stick podcasts on whenever you want on terrestial radio. Look at SEN 1170. It’s alcohol induced car crash radio.
Move it there and leave it there. It’s sleep inducing.
And sports daily IMO wasn’t really suited to local radio - maybe if it was a wrap-up of the day’s sporting news instead of a single topic it would’ve worked better.
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That’s true. If it was extended, it could do both.
This is the inevitable result of shoving a “podcast-first” show onto radio. For those playing along at home, programs like Sports Daily (along with Politics Now and News Daily) started life as podcasts and were later dumped into the ABC radio schedule.
Somewhere along the way, the bean counters decided that because both formats involve sound coming out of a speaker, they must be basically the same thing. They are not. A podcast doesn’t have to run to time — if a topic only needs 10 minutes, great. If it needs 40, also great. There’s no clock, no pacing pressure, and no consequences. Radio, meanwhile, survives on structure, momentum, and actually respecting the listener’s time.
Podcasts are also the natural home for niche, inside-baseball topics. If you’re not interested, you just skip the episode and move on with your life. That’s the deal. Radio doesn’t work like that. When a hyper-specific topic is allowed to sprawl across a broadcast slot, the audience can’t fast-forward — they can only reach for the dial.
Drop a podcast straight onto radio and the cracks show immediately. Segments ramble, ideas hang around well past their use-by date, and there’s a general lack of urgency because, frankly, there never had to be any. That might be perfectly fine in an on-demand world, but it’s death by a thousand words for people listening live who just want the program to keep moving.
And let’s not pretend this is about innovation. It’s about cost-cutting. If something already exists as a podcast, why not whack it on air as well? It looks very efficient on a spreadsheet. Unfortunately, “cheap” isn’t the same as “good radio” — and it’s the listeners who get stuck paying for the difference.
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Nick McLaren is leaving ABC Illawarra after nearly 30 years with the broadcaster, where he had been Deputy Chief of Staff and a multiplatform Senior Journalist.
Source: Radioinfo
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I don’t so much mind podcasts on radio, for example I like that RN broadcast This American Life and Radiolab, even Conversations. What annoys me in particular is RN playing episodes of podcasts that really need to be heard over multiple installments. Recently they were running Did Titanic Sink? from RNZ which is a fantastic show but you really have to sit down and listen to all the episodes, one out of context won’t make any sense. I am a big advocate for radio not going anywhere but also I think it’s unlikely somebody is going to remember to tune in at the same time every week for six weeks in 2026.
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ABC management have fired back.
“You know AM also has a big audience on ABC local radio – that’s its primary audience,” we were sternly advised.
James Valentine has just announced he will not be returning to ABC Radio Sydney. He will be retiring.
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The ABC press release includes comments by managing director Hugh Marks.
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Cole’s final show will air on February 28, with the incoming presenter to be announced shortly.
Left field choice: Ray Hadley. 
Loves his country music, and would be piss funny to hear him on the ABC.
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Funny as as a crucifixion.
Anyway, renae krosh seems unable to answer a simple question, hi how are you, etc I know time is wasted on greetings, but surely cutting the callers at the delay expense is not as good as just saying fine, ok, whatever.
ABC should be more friendly.
Depends on who’s being crucified
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