{"id":10576,"date":"2014-08-20T08:31:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10576"},"modified":"2014-08-20T08:31:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:31:18","slug":"john-follows-radio-australia-schedule-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/john-follows-radio-australia-schedule-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"John follows Radio Australia schedule changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9503\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial.jpg\" alt=\"SX-99-Dial\" width=\"1544\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial.jpg 1544w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-300x56.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-1024x192.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-100x18.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1544px) 100vw, 1544px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, John Figliozzi (editor of <a title=\"WWLG\" href=\"http:\/\/wwlgonline.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Worldwide Listening Guide<\/a>) followed Radio Australia schedule changes as he heard them online and over the air:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Listening in now (1415 GMT\/UTC) on 12065 kHz. and via the internet, the scheduled program (up to now) &#8220;Late Night Live&#8221; is missing with alternative rock music from Triple J taking its place at this time. On the RA web page, there is a notice stating:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Schedule update<\/em><br \/>\n<em> We are in the process of updating our radio schedule. We\u2019re introducing some new shows and some existing ones have moved to new time slots. Please stay tuned, we\u2019ll be publishing the full new schedule soon.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LNL is a Radio National-sourced program, so I gather this means it&#8217;s either being moved to a new time slot or (hopefully not) dropped altogether. No doubt a bit of confusion wrought by the thoroughly precipitous manner in which the ABC has had to adjust to the government budget cut that prompted that all this, a budget cut the Coalition had claimed prior to its election that it was in no way contemplating.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Three hours later:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">&#8220;At this point, it appears that Radio Australia shortwave frequencies and online is just relaying Triple J Unearthed, one of the ABC&#8217;s all digital networks, that plays new Australian music 24\/7 with occasional IDs but no DJ commentary.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then four hours later:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">&#8220;A more normalized schedule appears back in place as &#8220;Pacific Beat&#8221; was heard via the RA internet stream from just past 1900 until 2100 GMT.\u00a0 This is the two hour morning edition of the program which carried a very nice tribute to the &#8220;retiring&#8221; Sean Dorney, the ABC&#8217;s and RA&#8217;s Pacific correspondent, after 40 years with the organization.\u00a0 There was a reminder at the end of the program for listeners to tune into the afternoon edition of the program later in the day, which if memory serves is a shortened compilation of some of the morning content.\u00a0 Perhaps the earlier relay of Triple J Unearthed is just a temporary placeholder or is intended as overnight programming (Australian time)?<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Listening now (2100) via shortwave.\u00a0 17860 putting in a steady listenable signal peaking at S8 albeit with the usual local late afternoon QRN.\u00a0 &#8220;ABC News for Radio Australia&#8221; followed by &#8220;AM&#8221;, morning news program at 2110.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Be sure to check out John Figliozzi&#8217;s book,\u00a0<a title=\"WWLG\" href=\"http:\/\/wwlgonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Worldwide Listening Guide<\/a> online&#8211;<a title=\"The sixth edition of The Worldwide Listening Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/the-sixth-edition-of-the-worldwide-listening-guide\/\">click here for my most recent review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks for sharing this, John!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, John Figliozzi (editor of The Worldwide Listening Guide) followed Radio Australia schedule changes as he heard them online and over the air: &#8220;Listening in now (1415 GMT\/UTC) on 12065 kHz. and via the internet, the scheduled program (up to now) &#8220;Late Night Live&#8221; is missing with alternative rock music from Triple J taking its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3,438,43,1167],"tags":[703,368,1920,4082],"class_list":["post-10576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-schedules","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-john-figliozzi","tag-radio-australia","tag-radio-australia-cuts","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2KA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10280,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/johns-summary-of-radio-australia-cuts\/","url_meta":{"origin":10576,"position":0},"title":"John&#8217;s summary of Radio Australia cuts","author":"Thomas","date":"July 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"John Figliozzi, author of The Worldwide Listening Guide, recently posted his summary of Radio Australia cuts on several radio discussion groups. 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That's where John Figliozzi's The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SWlisteningguideJfigliozi-231x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12105,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/radio-australia-silent-on-9580-khz-this-morning\/","url_meta":{"origin":10576,"position":3},"title":"Radio Australia silent on 9,580 kHz this morning","author":"Thomas","date":"January 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning, when I tuned to Radio Australia on 9,580 kHz, they were\u00a0not transmitting--or, at least, I couldn't hear them. I hope this is merely a transmitter glitch (they do happen). 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Click images to enlarge. My source also sent a few RA internal\u00a0notes\/points regarding services, feeds and transmitters: Radio Australia Babcock ended 14th January. Brandon last broadcast 31st January. 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