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The NewsRadio NewsMaker of the Year isâŚ
NewsRadio listeners have voted for who they thought should be named ABC NewsRadioâs NewsMaker of the Year - someone who has made headlines this year - through their excellence, passion for a cause; political nous, influence or personal bravery.
Outspoken business magnate and Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump was announced as the winner.
The runner-up is Australian Human Rights Commission President, Gillian Triggs, who called for the end of offshore detention.
The top five results:
- Donald Trump
- Gillian Triggs
- Tony Abbott
- Rosie Batty
- Malcolm Turnbull
Despite a close race among subsequent candidates, Donald Trump maintained a clear lead in the final two weeks of the month-long poll, claiming more than 22 percent of total votes.
The real estate tycoon and television personality announced he was running in the Republican US presidential race in June. Within weeks he became the frontrunner in a field of 17 candidates.
As he announced his campaign for the presidency, Trump declared the American Dream dead but vowed he was the man to bring it back âbigger and better and stronger than ever before, and we will make America great againâ.
Trumpâs campaign has not been strong on policy. Instead, the presidential hopeful has taken a hardline approach to issues that already appeal to many Republicans, like immigration and border control. After branding Mexican immigrants as criminals, drug dealers and rapists, he pledged âbuild a great, great wall on our southern borderâ.
He sought to make his lack of political experience a virtue and on foreign policy he was adamant that âNo one will be tougher on ISIS than Trumpâ.
In early December, he called for a âtotal and complete shutdownâ on all Muslims entering the United States, drawing rebukes from both sides of US politics.
Speaking at a rally in South Carolina, Mr Trump warned of more September 11-style attacks if stern measures were not taken, adding that: âWe have no choiceâ.
Mr Trump went further than other Republican candidates, who have called for president Barack Obama to suspend plans to offer sanctuary to as many as 10,000 Syrian refugees fleeing their countryâs civil war.
Mr Trumpâs statement drew sweeping condemnation by presidential rivals and the White House, which denounced his call as âtotally contraryâ to US values.
These provocative statements, combined with Trumpâs innate showmanship, have led to a flood of free media attention.
According to NPR reporter Scott Detrow Trump spent âvirtually nothingâ on advertising until this week, having revealed plans to spend $2 million per week on advertising in early primary states throughout January.
âLooking at the last campaign finance reporting period - that would be July August and September - the Trump campaign only spent $6000 on radio ads. Thatâs less money than they spent printing t-shirts,â Mr Detrow said.
âThatâs really a drop in the bucket.â
âBy comparison, Jeb Bushâs campaign has spent more than $30million,â he said.
Last yearâs ABC NewsRadio NewsMaker of the year was Domestic violence campaigner, Rosie Batty.
For the first time, I heard on News Radio this afternoonâŚ
A song!
Cream - Prince
Obviously connected to the news of his passing.
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NewsRadio will broadcast todayâs A-League Grand Final between Adelaide United and Western Sydney Wanderers across Australia, at 4pm AEST today just before kickoff. The match will also be broadcast on ABC Local Radio in South Australia.
was broadcast on digital as well. i would have thought grandstand or ABC extra would have been the choices for this
The Festival of the Boot returns to ABC NewsRadio this year as Roy and H.G. deliver their outrageously funny commentary of AFL and NRL Grand Finals. It starts this Saturday with the AFL Grand Final at 2pm AEST.
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Fairfax article ABC in 2017 reveals that ABC News Radio will be rebranded ABC News in 2017
The News24 channel and NewsRadio will be rebranded âABC Newsâ: But how do we distinguish between them â and the TV news bulletins? A spokeswoman says: âWhen necessary, they will be described as âthe ABC News channelâ and âABC News on radioâ respectively ⌠the TV bulletins will be described as âABC news [State name] at 7pm on ABC TVâ.â
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perhaps they might go back to the rolling news format and get rid of some of the long form programming.
they need to ditch shows like the law report, the health report, the audio broadcast of Q&A and the other long form programming. the rolling news format was a big strength of newsradio but they are moving away from that and the usefulness of the station is fading bacuse of it
They should be kept for weekends because there is usually not much happening apart from sport.
Also, WA listeners often miss out on rolling news at breakfast time because (due to time difference) Federal Parliament sessions are on when they wake up, forcing them to tune into ABC 720 or commercial stations for latest news. Perhaps the ABC should look at that issue, maybe some rolling news from 7-8am WA time on analogue with Parliament proceedings broadcast online (they already have split broadcast with AFL matches in NSW and QLD).
The problem with this is that NewsRadio was set up to fill the dead time when parliament was not sitting. Parliament was broadcast on these frequencies and when there was none the stations were dead air. There is legislation exisiting that says analog frequencies need to carry the parliamentary broadcasts.
The best way to get around it is to get a digital radio (if it exisits where you are) as there is no parliamentary broadcasts on it.
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When it started it was often announced on-air as âABC News Radio on PNN the Parliamentary and News Networkâ, a very long winded name.
it was originally PNN (parliamentary news network) and is still the call sign for the FM frequencies - on the gold coast or example itâs 4PNN.
they got sued by CNN and as part of the settle ment they dropped the PNN initals. the " âABC News Radio on PNN the Parliamentary and News Networkâ name was used in the transition period.
The metro AM licences are xPB as well. Iâm too young to remember the pre- NewsRadio days- Iâm assuming the txs were switched off completely on non-sitting days.
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Yes thatâs my recollection of them.
It was reported at the time that the transmitters used were back ups for the main ABC AM station - I think they were still called ABC Radio 1.
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The hourly news bulletins on. Local Radio, Radio National and Classic FM are all just branded as âABC Newsâ.
Going to be a bit confusing with a station that uses the same name for a full time broadcast.
with the rebrand of ABC local happening today i wonder of we will finally get something on newsradio - new stingers at least to introduce headlines, sport etc.
it feels like newsradio is the neglected step-brother of local radio. i canât remember when they last had a overhaul of stingers - itâs been a few years i think
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I presume that ABC NewsRadio will get a new On-Air sound whenever the wider TV/radio rebrands of ABC News happen this year.
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According to this, it seems that ABC News Radio was directed to re-broadcast ABC24 last Monday
ABC radio staff slam âoddâ decision to rebroadcast TV coverage of plane crash
ABC News Radio journalists have criticised a decision from ABC management to take their broadcast off the airwaves during last weekâs Essendon plane crash, and instead play the audio feed of TVâs ABC News 24.
What was broadcast on 3LO at the time?
Jon Faineâs morning show was on ABC Radio Melbourne at the time of the plane crash. He would have taken lots of phone calls from witnesses and his colleagues near the scene.