{"id":24544,"date":"2017-03-08T08:57:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T12:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=24544"},"modified":"2017-03-08T08:57:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T12:57:58","slug":"rnzi-becomes-the-voice-of-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/rnzi-becomes-the-voice-of-the-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"RNZI becomes the voice of the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: Asia Radio Today<\/a> via Mark Little)<\/p>\n

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As Radio Australia cuts shortwave services, RNZI becomes the voice of the Pacific<\/h2>\n

Radio New Zealand International (RNZI) continues to serve people across the Pacific region, delivering essential day to day news and information and providing a vital lifeline in times of natural disaster, as Radio Australia closes its international shortwave transmission service to Papua New Guinea and the Pacific.<\/p>\n

Emphasising the importance of RNZI\u2019s 25-year relationship with New Zealand\u2019s Pacific neighbours, RNZ CEO, Paul Thompson said: \u201cRemote parts of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu who may be feeling the loss of the ABC can rest assured RNZI will continue to provide independent, timely and accurate news, information and weather warnings as well as entertainment to its Pacific listeners.\u201d<\/p>\n

Australian Broadcasting Corporation\u2019s decision to switch off its shortwave services as a money saving measure has already drawn criticism and protests from a number of groups in Australia.<\/p>\n

Read more at: http:\/\/www.asiaradiotoday.com\/news\/radio-australia-cuts-shortwave-services-rnzi-becomes-voice-pacific<\/a> \u00a9 Radioinfo.com.au<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In truth, RNZI has always done a fabulous<\/em> job of covering the Pacific islands with news and information. I’m happy to hear they plan to stick around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Asia Radio Today via Mark Little) As Radio Australia cuts shortwave services, RNZI becomes the voice of the Pacific Radio New Zealand International (RNZI) continues to serve people across the Pacific region, delivering essential day to day news and information and providing a vital lifeline in times of natural disaster, as Radio Australia closes […]<\/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":[86,2924,2576,87],"class_list":["post-24544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-abc","tag-abc-cuts","tag-radio-new-zealand-international","tag-rnzi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6nS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23865,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/rnzi-continues-to-serve-people-across-the-pacific-region\/","url_meta":{"origin":24544,"position":0},"title":"RNZI “continues to serve people across the Pacific region”","author":"Thomas","date":"February 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: RNZ Press Release via London Shortwave) Press release: Following the ABC's decision to cut shortwave radio transmission in the Pacific, Radio New Zealand International wants to reassure our listeners that we are committed to our Pacific broadcast partners. 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