{"id":3936,"date":"2012-07-22T22:35:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T02:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2012-07-23T07:48:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T11:48:21","slug":"a-little-more-saturday-night-country-via-radio-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/a-little-more-saturday-night-country-via-radio-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"A little more <i>Saturday Night Country<\/i> via Radio Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3947\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/1-robpottsfelicityurqhartdierksbentley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3947\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3947\" title=\"1-robpottsfelicityurqhartdierksbentley\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/1-robpottsfelicityurqhartdierksbentley-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/1-robpottsfelicityurqhartdierksbentley-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/1-robpottsfelicityurqhartdierksbentley-100x79.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/1-robpottsfelicityurqhartdierksbentley.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saturday Night Country host, Felicity Urqhart, receiving CMA\u2019s 2012 International Country Broadcaster Award (Source: RadioInfo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned before how much I love <a title=\"Radio Australia\u2019s Saturday Night Country is a part of my Saturday morning\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/radio-australias-saturday-night-country-is-a-part-of-my-saturday-morning\/\">this show<\/a>&#8211;you don&#8217;t even need to be a fan of country music to have a true appreciation for it.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SNC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/snc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Country<\/a> should be on your shortwave listening schedule. If you live in North America, you&#8217;ll find the signal out of Shepparton, Australia is so strong that even a mediocre portable radio can receive it with ease.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Click here to download the mp3\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/AbcRadioAustraliasSaturdayNightCountry21Jul2012\/RadioAustralia-SatNightCountry-9580k.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a two hour and 50 minute taste<\/a> of Saturday Night Country for your Monday morning:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/AbcRadioAustraliasSaturdayNightCountry21Jul2012\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"45\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned before how much I love this show&#8211;you don&#8217;t even need to be a fan of country music to have a true appreciation for it. Saturday Night Country should be on your shortwave listening schedule. If you live in North America, you&#8217;ll find the signal out of Shepparton, Australia is so strong that even [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,442,746],"tags":[86,1169,1171,368,1168,1170,737,4116],"class_list":["post-3936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-recordings","tag-abc","tag-abc-saturday-night-country","tag-felicity-urquhart","tag-radio-australia","tag-radio-australia-shepparton","tag-saturday-night-country-shortwave","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings","tag-whats-on-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-11u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5747,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/shortwave-radio-recordings-saturday-night-country\/","url_meta":{"origin":3936,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Saturday Night Country","author":"Thomas","date":"February 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As on many Saturday mornings, this past weekend I sipped my morning coffee while listening to ABC\u2019s Saturday Night Country from Radio Australia\u2019s Shepparton shortwave transmission site on 9.58 MHz...some 9,800 miles from my home. 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For decades, it has beamed a broad and booming signal into North America on 9,580 kHz every morning.\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\/2012\/06\/FelicitySatNightCountry-300x171.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10698,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/how-tudor-enjoys-radio-australia\/","url_meta":{"origin":3936,"position":4},"title":"How Tudor enjoys Radio Australia","author":"Thomas","date":"September 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"In response to my recent Radio Australia post, SWLing Post reader, Tudor\u00a0Vedeanu comments: \"I've also enjoyed listening to music on Radio Australia lately. \"Saturday\u00a0Night Country\" is currently my favorite show on SW. Here is a recording I made during the weekend: http:\/\/youtu.be\/CHv1hu2OVH8\" \"And indeed Triple J is very good too.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Romania_Countryside","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Romania_Countryside.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Romania_Countryside.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Romania_Countryside.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Romania_Countryside.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5567,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/radio-australias-jazz-notes\/","url_meta":{"origin":3936,"position":5},"title":"Radio Australia&#8217;s Jazz Notes","author":"Thomas","date":"February 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"One Radio Australia music program I make a point of listening to each week-- besides Saturday Night Country--is a wonderful show called Jazz Notes. 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