{"id":23822,"date":"2017-01-31T08:15:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T12:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=23822"},"modified":"2017-01-31T08:15:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T12:15:49","slug":"radio-australia-shortwave-services-silenced-like-listening-to-our-old-aunt-passing-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/radio-australia-shortwave-services-silenced-like-listening-to-our-old-aunt-passing-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Australia shortwave services silenced: &#8220;Like listening to our old aunt passing away&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23823\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/End-of-Radio-Australia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23823\" class=\"wp-image-23823 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/End-of-Radio-Australia.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/End-of-Radio-Australia.jpg 504w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/End-of-Radio-Australia-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Locals hold a wake to signal demise of ABC shortwave service; destroy a donated shortwave radio with a golden sledge hammer.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dennis Dura, who shares the following report <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCNews24\/status\/826377379958317056\" target=\"_blank\">via ABC News 24 on Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The ABC has shut down its shortwave radio service to remote parts of Northern Australia and the Pacific. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaddocksThomas\">@MaddocksThomas<\/a> reports <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VPD3deSR9Z\">pic.twitter.com\/VPD3deSR9Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News 24 (@ABCNews24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCNews24\/status\/826377379958317056\">January 31, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VPD3deSR9Z\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view this video on ABC News 24&#8217;s Twitter feed.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dennis Dura, who shares the following report via ABC News 24 on Twitter: The ABC has shut down its shortwave radio service to remote parts of Northern Australia and the Pacific. @MaddocksThomas reports pic.twitter.com\/VPD3deSR9Z \u2014 ABC News 24 (@ABCNews24) January 31, 2017 Click here to view this video on [&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":[56,960,3,43],"tags":[2924,5898,5484,5738,5875,368,1920,3572,2796],"class_list":["post-23822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-abc-cuts","tag-abc-news-24","tag-abc-northern-territories","tag-abc-northern-territory-shortwave","tag-dennis-dura","tag-radio-australia","tag-radio-australia-cuts","tag-radio-australia-pacific-service-cuts","tag-radio-australia-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6ce","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25580,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/abc-opposes-restoration-of-shortwave-services\/","url_meta":{"origin":23822,"position":0},"title":"ABC opposes restoration of shortwave services","author":"Thomas","date":"May 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: RNZ via Dennis Dura) ABC opposes bill to restore Pacific shortwave service The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has made a Senate submission opposing a bill which would force it to restore its shortwave services for the Northern Territory and the Pacific. 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ABC Friends represents the community\u2019s interest in independent national public broadcasting: MEDIA RELEASE 5\/1\/2017 NEW THREAT TO LIVES IN OUTBACK PLEA FOR URGENT MINISTERIAL ACTION An urgent call for ministerial action to protect\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ABC-Friends_logo.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":33525,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/australian-foreign-minister-says-her-party-did-not-support-shutting-down-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":23822,"position":5},"title":"Australian Foreign Minister says her party did not support shutting down shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"August 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: RadioInfo via William Lee and Dennis Dura) Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has told [ ABC's Radio National ] RN's Fran Kelly that her party did not support the ABC's decision to switch off short wave services in the Pacific. \"It is not a decision of the Australian government,\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Shepparton-10.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Shepparton-10.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Shepparton-10.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}