Good. Audiences will be able to understand the breakfast show from both presenters for a change.
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Good to read @JohnsonTV.
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ā4QRā breakfast this morning:
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Radioinfoās Steve Ahern has an interview with the new Director of ABC Regional & Local, Judith Whelan, which you can read here: https://www.radioinfo.com.au/news/it-isnāt-business-usual-abc-radio-judith-whelan
Includes YouTube video below.
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It was a good listen, however couldāve been leveraged better with the special reports their Qld journos have been filing for 7pm TV news most nights this which fit in with this.
The Steve Austin drive show which focussed on the transport mode of rail laboured the point far too much and with the OB located within central station, therefore on the turf of QR (rail operator), there was an unfortunate amount of āvendor buy inā ie. how could they say much negative being invited onto their turf?
The usually probing Steve Austin was very muted in his questions.
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Sami filling in for Raf in Melbourne, heās really not my cup of tea and isnāt he doing breakfast how can he do two shifts?
Maybe they had no other person available at short notice - and he volunteered? Heās back on tomorrow as well he said, so expect a filler co-host for Breakfast or Jacinta solo.
I prefer him (and Jacinta) when heās solo.
Sami is doing double shift today - breakfast and drive.
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There was some technical difficulties during the 7.45am news on ABC Radio Melbourne today. About five minutes into the bulletin an audio clip failed to play, so after around 30 seconds, it switched to the Sydney bulletin instead.
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Restart the newsroom IT and get on with it, how dismal to switch to Sydney, there has to be a better backup plan. Faine was right about this one thing.
Switch to Brisbane? I think Sydney news was a good backup plan.
If they canāt go to air then surely switching to another bulletin and actually airing something is better than nothing.
Ideal if possible, if that was indeed the fault. Could take several minutes to do and meanwhile what do they air - Dead air?
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Have fifteen minutes (length of bulletin) of script to deliver, printed. Thatās how itās been done for decades.
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Too radical. Wonāt catch on
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Toowoomba based ABC Southern Queensland have extended local Saturday morning coverage from 10am to midday with David Illiffe (son of QTQ TV pioneers Jim and Melody Illiffe) and Belinda Sanders at the open day for the Toowoomba Second Range Crossing (a major road project akin to the 90ās replacement of the SE Fwy from the Adelaide Hills down to Glen Osmond).
Itās been a great outside broadcast and a busy one with fire updates from Vicki Thompson as covered in the emergency thread.
ABC Toowoomba is the only local major station to have local Saturday programming, fortuitous coverage (very good) from River is the closest with regular OBs from electrical stores in Tāba.
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ABC Local Radio is now available through Digital TV and can be found on channel 25.
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Tickets for Jon Faineās final show, at Melbourne Town Hall on October 11, will be allocated with a random draw on September 30. You will have to register your details via this website and sign up to the ABC Radio Melbourne enewsletter, if you arenāt already a subscriber, to enter into the draw.
Apparently as of Thursday, over 5,000 have already already applied for the ballot.