so it seems SABC are throwing to commercials for their local audience but continuing on for ABC coverage.
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One ad almost slipped in just now, first time Iāve ever heard advertising on the ABCā¦
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Last year, ABC announced more stations would be added to their streaming at:
ABC North Coast (Tweed to Clarence Valley), the station advise, will be available from this Friday 9 March.
Using the template of stations already streaming, eg. http://radio.abc.net.au/stations/local_midnorthcoast/live
Should simply lop off the āmidā in that URL and the stream will work when it becomes active.
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The additional NSW stations that are streaming are available as of this morning:
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Looks like the other states are also online too. Currently flicking through the Queensland ones.
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They appeared during the afternoon.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival programs on ABC Local Radio and ABC Listen app
Conversation Hour with Jon Faine
Wednesday 21 March at 11am AEDT
A prelude to the MICF, and to celebrate Cultural Diversity Week in partnership with the Victorian Multicultural Commission, Jon Faine and guests will discuss What makes you laugh? Held in front of a live audience in the Beckett Theatre at Malthouse Theatre, we ask the question āhow is your sense of humour influenced by your cultural background?ā
Comedy Bites
Tuesday 27 March from 8-10pm AEDT in VIC and TAS, 8-10pm ACST in NT and 9-11pm AWDT in WA
ABC Radio Melbourneās annual Festival preview, Comedy Bites will be hosted by Evenings presenter, Lindy Burns, and Breakfast presenter, Sami Shah. Comedy Bites is a scrumptious selection of the funniest local and international artists from the 2018 Festival program, performing a bite-sized morsel of their show at the Comedy Theatre.
Brian Nankervis and Libbi Gorr will also chat to comedians performing at the Festival during a live one-hour backstage broadcast from 7-8pm AEDT.
The Friday Revue Comedy Edition
Friday 6 April at 2pm AEST
A special comedy focused edition of The Friday Revue hosted by Richelle Hunt and Brian Nankervis. Held in front of a live audience, this edition will feature music and cabaret acts.
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Interesting that SA, NSW and Qld are not taking Comedy Bites.
Great to see ABC Melb taking advantage of having this local hour that other states do not.
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Anthony āLehmoā Lehmann has joined ABC Radio as the new host of its Saturday and Sunday AFL programs.
This is great news, ABC is modernising its coverage. Purists will be aghast.
Hopefully Lehmo doesnāt play a straight bat and is able to inject his humour.
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There was a tribute to veteran ABC Adelaide sports commentator Peter Walsh on Grandstand this afternoon after he announced his retirement from the broadcaster after 40 years. The Advertiser reported back in February that Walsh left the ABC after a disagreement with management over its direction. Walsh will continue to work part-time in broadcasting, joining the SANFLās Digital Pass team.
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I wonder who will replace him on Crows/Power home matches?
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This morning, ABC Brisbane breakfast was solo hosted by Rebecca Levingston from the Comm Games athleteās village.
Media from all forms and from across the country were invited to āspend the nightā sleeping in the village before reporting on it today. Talk about embedding and a free kick for coverage. How could you badmouth it?
It was 4 hours of nauseating, paint drying coverage. Covered in far too much detail. There is other news in Brisbane that couldāve been covered.
Giving the breakfast show 170mins of air time to fill five days a week was never a good idea.
It would also appear ABC Gold Coast did the same with their presenter (with the 5-6am portion also simulcast to Brisbane).
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Maybe Neil Cross would replace Peter Walsh. Cross used to do the SANFL on ABC TV, so he has experience.
@Daniel_Anderson1 Neil Cross may do a shared services role with ABC News similar to what Chris Rowbottom does in Tasmania.
Really? Wow. Shows the short comings of the metro show beginning at 6am (6:15 after early AM) rather than its long standing 5am start.
Thereās already congestion at 5am on the roads. Meanwhile, local ABC has slumber inducing middawn programming, zero relevance to a specific metro market.
The 5am - 6am hour of Gold Coast breakfast with Bern Young has been simulcast to both Brisbane and Sunshine Coast since the start of the year (although it was going to Sunshine Coast last year already), due to the overnight programs currently coming in live and leaving the one hour gap due to daylight savings. To be fair though - in that hour they do traffic/transport updates and weather check-up for the entire South-East Queensland region - so it can be argued its more relevant than a one hour delayed overnight program.
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Thanks, great to know.
Itās quite the stop gap to pipe a multi market program not from the metro market into the metro market.
Spencer Howson started at 5am, effectively finished at 7:45am (allowing for the 15-minute news followed by 30 minutes of AM), and then Steve Austin started mornings at 8:30am (when most people in this part of the world have started the work day). That scheduling seemed sensible and worked, not sure why it needed to be changed - the 45 minutes of news a logical break between two local shows
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