{"id":26497,"date":"2017-06-19T06:37:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T10:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=26497"},"modified":"2017-06-19T06:37:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T10:37:34","slug":"future-of-abc-shortwave-service-nigel-participates-in-senate-committee-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/future-of-abc-shortwave-service-nigel-participates-in-senate-committee-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Future of ABC Shortwave Service: Nigel Participates in Senate Committee Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Australia-Globe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24234\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Australia-Globe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Australia-Globe.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Australia-Globe-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Australia-Globe-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Australia-Globe-624x353.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Nigel Holmes&#8211;formerly of Radio Australia&#8211;for the following update regarding Nick Xenophon&#8217;s bill to resume ABC shortwave services:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last Friday I travelled to Canberra and fronted the Senate Committee hearing testimony on the matter of HF broadcasting &amp; Senator Xenophon&#8217;s Bill to compel ABC to resume HF domestically &amp; for RA. I was grilled like a breakfast kipper. It went well.<\/p>\n<p>Another witness was Graeme Dobell, a legendary radio &amp; print journalist who has travelled &amp; worked all over the Pacific region. Graeme has written some good articles on the current subject. See here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.org.au\/abc-gets-wrong-south-pacific-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.org.au\/abc-gets-wrong-south-pacific-service\/<\/a> and here<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.org.au\/smart-stuff-shortwave-south-pacific\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.org.au\/smart-stuff-shortwave-south-pacific\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly another ex-RA journalist &amp; RA senior executive Geoff Heriot wrote a recent piece critical of ABCs degradation of RA specialist programming. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.org.au\/crowded-pacific-re-considering-sharp-edge-broadcastings-soft-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See here<\/a>:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"IFjdpKW1Nk\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.org.au\/crowded-pacific-re-considering-sharp-edge-broadcastings-soft-power\/\">The crowded Pacific: re-considering the sharp edge of broadcasting\u2019s soft power<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;The crowded Pacific: re-considering the sharp edge of broadcasting\u2019s soft power&#8221; &#8212; The Strategist\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.org.au\/crowded-pacific-re-considering-sharp-edge-broadcastings-soft-power\/embed\/#?secret=baYyXTiMyZ#?secret=IFjdpKW1Nk\" data-secret=\"IFjdpKW1Nk\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Nigel. We appreciate your updates and are certainly thankful that you have been representing the interests of those who believe in ABC maintaining a presence on shortwave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Nigel Holmes&#8211;formerly of Radio Australia&#8211;for the following update regarding Nick Xenophon&#8217;s bill to resume ABC shortwave services: Last Friday I travelled to Canberra and fronted the Senate Committee hearing testimony on the matter of HF broadcasting &amp; Senator Xenophon&#8217;s Bill to compel ABC to resume HF domestically &amp; for [&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":[2924,5738,6111,5905,6183,2796,5708],"class_list":["post-26497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-abc-cuts","tag-abc-northern-territory-shortwave","tag-abc-shortwave","tag-nick-xenophon","tag-nigel-holmes","tag-radio-australia-shortwave","tag-radio-australia-shortwave-closure"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6Tn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26689,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/senate-hearing-abc-hf-broadcasting\/","url_meta":{"origin":26497,"position":0},"title":"Senate Hearing: ABC &#038; HF broadcasting","author":"Thomas","date":"June 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Nigel Holmes, who shares the following link to the ABC & HF broadcasting Senate Hearing and notes: http:\/\/parlview.aph.gov.au\/mediaPlayer.php?videoID=355749 3 hours in total. 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Here is the link to the bill: http:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/Parliamentary_Business\/Bills_Legislation\/Bills_Search_Results\/Result?bId=s1055 The proposed amendment to\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\/02\/Australia-Globe.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Australia-Globe.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Australia-Globe.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Australia-Globe.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":25045,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/radio-new-zealand-reports-vanuatu-asks-senate-for-reinstatement-of-abc-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":26497,"position":3},"title":"Radio New Zealand reports: Vanuatu asks senate for reinstatement of ABC shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"April 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Radio New Zealand\u00a0via Nigel Holmes) The government of Vanuatu sent a formal submission to the Australian Senate asking for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to resume its shortwave service. 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