{"id":4008,"date":"2012-07-28T12:33:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T16:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=4008"},"modified":"2012-07-28T12:33:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T16:33:53","slug":"radio-australias-live-coverage-of-the-london-2012-summer-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/radio-australias-live-coverage-of-the-london-2012-summer-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Australia&#8217;s live coverage of the London 2012 Summer Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/RadioAustralia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4009\" title=\"RadioAustralia\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/RadioAustralia-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/RadioAustralia-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/RadioAustralia-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/RadioAustralia.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This morning, I&#8217;ve been enjoying Radio Australia&#8217;s live coverage of the London 2012 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>In an era where Olympics coverage is tightly controlled by television networks (and swallowed with a generous amount of sponsorship ads) it&#8217;s a relief to know that I can hear live, uninterrupted coverage via Radio Australia on shortwave.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a recording from 9,580 kHz at 14:00 UTC today (coverage begins after the news):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/RadioAustraliaLiveCoverageOfThe2012SummerOlympicGames\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"45\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Radio Australia is well known for their sports coverage. Indeed, I&#8217;ve heard their dedication to cricket, football and rugby coverage secures their listenership throughout Asia and\u00a0Oceania.<\/p>\n<p>I believe it. Thanks, RA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I&#8217;ve been enjoying Radio Australia&#8217;s live coverage of the London 2012 Summer Olympics. In an era where Olympics coverage is tightly controlled by television networks (and swallowed with a generous amount of sponsorship ads) it&#8217;s a relief to know that I can hear live, uninterrupted coverage via Radio Australia on shortwave. Here&#8217;s a [&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":[56,81,3],"tags":[1240,1239,368,1238],"class_list":["post-4008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-current-events","category-news","tag-london-2012-summer-olympics","tag-olympics-on-shortwave-radio","tag-radio-australia","tag-radio-australia-olympic-coverage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-12E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7802,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/listen-to-the-the-melbourne-cup-on-radio-australia\/","url_meta":{"origin":4008,"position":0},"title":"Listen to the The Melbourne Cup on Radio Australia","author":"Thomas","date":"November 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"John Figliozzi writes: \"Radio Australia will preempt its regular programming beginning at 0400 UT\u00a0Tuesday\u00a0to provide live coverage of the running of the 2013 Melbourne Cup horse race. \u00a0RA will have special programming at 0400 and 0530, before and after the race. \u00a0It will join the national sports program Grandstand beginning\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Melbourn-Cup","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Melbourn-Cup-300x219.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4513,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/radio-australia-to-broadcast-coverage-of-the-afl-grand-final\/","url_meta":{"origin":4008,"position":1},"title":"Radio Australia to broadcast coverage of the AFL Grand Final","author":"Thomas","date":"September 25, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Radio Australia via NASWA) Radio Australia will broadcast coverage of the AFL Grand Final on Saturday 29 September 2012 from 0430-0745 UT. 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