{"id":41071,"date":"2019-12-05T07:52:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T11:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=41071"},"modified":"2019-12-05T07:52:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T11:52:59","slug":"abcs-review-of-shortwave-broadcasting-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/abcs-review-of-shortwave-broadcasting-released\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC’s review of shortwave broadcasting released"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Michael Bird, who shares a link to RadioInfo<\/a> that summarizes the recently-released “Review of Australian Broadcasting Services in the Asia Pacific” by the ABC. Micheal notes:<\/p>\n

So what do we take from this report? No recommendations. The status quo continues although there were many respondents who would favour [shortwave radio’s] return:<\/p>\n

“There are no formal recommendations for action, only a finding that the Government \u201cclarify the objectives of its Asia Pacific broadcasts\u2026 in achieving Australia\u2019s broader strategic policy objectives, as well as the target audiences for those broadcasts.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article at RadioInfo.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Click here to download the full report [PDF].<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Michael Bird, who shares a link to RadioInfo that summarizes the recently-released “Review of Australian Broadcasting Services in the Asia Pacific” by the ABC. Micheal notes: So what do we take from this report? No recommendations. The status quo continues although there were many respondents who would favour [shortwave […]<\/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":[960,3,43],"tags":[6111,4111,7554,368,1920,4082],"class_list":["post-41071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-abc-shortwave","tag-international-broadcasting","tag-michael-bird","tag-radio-australia","tag-radio-australia-cuts","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aGr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35878,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/pacific-beat-government-considers-report-into-asia-pacific-broadcasting\/","url_meta":{"origin":41071,"position":0},"title":"Pacific Beat: Government considers report into Asia-Pacific broadcasting","author":"Thomas","date":"February 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: ABC's Pacific Beat via Michael Bird) https:\/\/abcmedia.akamaized.net\/radioaustralia\/radioaustralia\/audio\/201902\/pba-2019-02-04-restoring-shortwave.mp3 The Australian government is considering the findings of a long-awaited report reviewing broadcasting to the Asia Pacific but it hasn't revealed when they might be made public. 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