ABC Local Radio

stmookeyj027 · June 29, 2018, 1:36pm

Definitely will look out for them presuming they’ll be located in the start precinct across the road from Australia Fair (I’m running it for the 5th time).

crankymedia · July 2, 2018, 4:57am

What time was this on and who was hosting/producing it?

This is great news, they’re fortunate to have such a talent working for them. What shows will he be looking after?

littlegezzybear · July 2, 2018, 5:41am

He said on Facebook he’d be working on a range of programs. He started on late nights on local radio.

crankymedia · July 2, 2018, 7:28am

No Queensland state political reporter on the round today as mentioned on ABC radio. Talk about being hard up.

JohnsonTV · July 2, 2018, 8:09am

Quentin Hull co-hosted with ABC Gold Coast drive presenter Matt Webber.
https://twitter.com/QuentinHull/status/1013149777205182464
https://twitter.com/shelleymlloyd/status/1013160865502072832

Frankie · July 2, 2018, 8:36am

Ben Knight filling in for Raf Epstein for the next two weeks.

Libby Gorr making 774 Breakfast worth listening to while the children are on a break.

mirb · July 2, 2018, 8:42am

Suzanne Hill hosting Nightlife again this week filling in for Philip Clark.

melbournefan · July 2, 2018, 1:11pm

Might give it a listen tomorrow night.

TV.Cynic · July 8, 2018, 12:59am

Looks like it’s Bill McDonald on ABC Brisbane for breakfast this week.

crankymedia · July 8, 2018, 4:22pm

Bill can read an autocue well enough but get him into a conversation and well, even cabinet makers find they walk away feeling more intelligent.

JohnsonTV · July 8, 2018, 10:30pm

MasterChef judge Matt Preston will host afternoons (2pm-4pm) on ABC Radio Melbourne this week.

Frankie · July 9, 2018, 1:26am

I’ve heard him do a few stints with Faine, he’s quite good. Will try and catch a bit when I knock off.

TV.Cynic · July 13, 2018, 2:47am

pelican · July 13, 2018, 2:50am

Any reason why?

ando9185 · July 13, 2018, 3:05am

Interesting, she has spent a lot more time not on air than on air lately though.

Another ABC Hobart change, this week Leon Compton has moved to TV News for 6 months until January with his first report airing the other night about Councils. Sarah Gulman (sp?) is filling in on the radio for Statewide Mornings now.

TV-Expert · July 18, 2018, 7:05am

From Radioinfo:

From the Gold Coast to Central West to Great South WA, a tweet has circulated across the ABC’s regional social media accounts announcing the broadcaster’s plans to close its regional radio Twitter accounts by the end of July.

Read more at: https://www.radioinfo.com.au/news/abc-close-all-regional-twitter-accounts-end-month

According to this tweet by ABC Illawarra:
https://twitter.com/973ABCIllawarra/status/1019457334869803008

Moe · July 18, 2018, 7:10am

Wouldn’t you keep them open and just make it an unmonitored automatic feed? I personally don’t listen to ABC Melbourne - but I follow their twitter account as I find it a good source of relevant local news.

TelevisionAU · July 19, 2018, 8:52am

What a ridiculous decision. These Twitter accounts have thousands of followers and disseminate news and information in real time which is one of ABC’s primary functions. Who cares if it hasn’t got “engagement”.

They acknowledge that nobody will be using broadcast in future years, so they wind back social media presence?

Look at some of their follower numbers, these are not insignificant surely and these are just random regional accounts I’ve looked up in no particular order:

JohnsonTV · July 19, 2018, 9:41am

Newcastle people should be outraged. First their ABC station was downgraded from metropolitan to regional status, then they lost a couple of local presenters, and now this.

Moe · July 19, 2018, 9:50am

Many of those regional stations are higher than ABC Darwin (11.7k) and ABC Hobart (15.2k). ABC Gold Coast’s 20.1k is another on the list to be shut down.