{"id":41213,"date":"2019-12-16T07:46:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T11:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=41213"},"modified":"2019-12-17T08:09:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T12:09:16","slug":"australia-calling-abc-documentary-looking-at-the-impact-of-radio-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/australia-calling-abc-documentary-looking-at-the-impact-of-radio-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Calling: ABC documentary looking at the impact of Radio Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-16-at-06.32.10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41214\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-16-at-06.32.10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-16-at-06.32.10.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-16-at-06.32.10-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-16-at-06.32.10-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-16-at-06.32.10-624x390.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to a number of <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributors who contacted me about a new documentary focused on the impact of Radio Australia. Peter Marks writes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The celebration of 80 years of international broadcasting from Australia continues. The ABC has published &#8220;Australia Calling: A look at 80 years of Radio Australia and ABC international broadcasting\u201d today:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-12-16\/abc-celebrating-80-years-of-international-broadcasting\/11783252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-12-16\/abc-celebrating-80-years-of-international-broadcasting\/11783252<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">And tonight there\u2019s a documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/iview.abc.net.au\/show\/australia-calling-80-years-of-international-broadcasting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">being shown on TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">There\u2019s even a story about the making of that documentary here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/about\/backstory\/news-coverage\/2019-12-16\/making-australia-calling-documentary\/11795134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/about\/backstory\/news-coverage\/2019-12-16\/making-australia-calling-documentary\/11795134<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Peter! I just started watching the documentary via ABC&#8217;s iView. <del>Note that the program is geo-blocked and not available outside of Australia (<em>unless, like me, you have a good VPN<\/em>).<\/del> [No longer geo-blocked! <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/now-unblocked-watching-the-new-radio-australia-documentary\/\">See update<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to the documentary on iView:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iview.abc.net.au\/show\/australia-calling-80-years-of-international-broadcasting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>https:\/\/iview.abc.net.au\/show\/australia-calling-80-years-of-international-broadcasting<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peter also shared a number of related stories&#8211;some of which we&#8217;ve published in the past:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-06-22\/china-takes-over-radio-australias-old-shortwave-frequencies\/9898754\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-06-22\/china-takes-over-radio-australias-old-shortwave-frequencies\/9898754&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1576581194612000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHGmmkLNfuu4E--oUzSAsLFSEOXsg\"><strong>Related Story:<\/strong>\u00a0China takes over Radio Australia&#8217;s old shortwave frequencies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-02-28\/abc-boss-grilled-in-senate-estimates-over-axe-to-shortwave\/8312200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-02-28\/abc-boss-grilled-in-senate-estimates-over-axe-to-shortwave\/8312200&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1576581194612000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEXQ8Ux4ROJpnSQDJOmjGtu53reiQ\"><strong>Related Story:<\/strong>\u00a0ABC boss grilled in Senate Estimates over axing shortwave service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-01-31\/xenophon-leads-calls-for-abc-to-reinstate-shortwave-radio\/8225694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-01-31\/xenophon-leads-calls-for-abc-to-reinstate-shortwave-radio\/8225694&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1576581194612000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGAvu3u0cw0ddtCa6BS3vK0J3j-0Q\"><strong>Related Story:<\/strong>\u00a0Xenophon leads calls for ABC to reinstate shortwave radio service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2016-12-09\/pacific-nations-lose-shortwave-radio-services\/8108032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2016-12-09\/pacific-nations-lose-shortwave-radio-services\/8108032&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1576581194612000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGWuir9CK-lGNaYDNeo0DxqecBC2Q\"><strong>Related Story:<\/strong>\u00a0Pacific loses radio service that evades dictators and warns of disasters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/rural\/2016-12-08\/abc-shut-shortwave-radio-service-met-with-anger\/8103096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/rural\/2016-12-08\/abc-shut-shortwave-radio-service-met-with-anger\/8103096&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1576581194612000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGYe7ymB1U1gxjwz0v9-ddGM9VZxQ\"><strong>Related Story:<\/strong>\u00a0ABC&#8217;s decision to end shortwave radio service criticised<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to a number of SWLing Post contributors who contacted me about a new documentary focused on the impact of Radio Australia. Peter Marks writes: The celebration of 80 years of international broadcasting from Australia continues. The ABC has published &#8220;Australia Calling: A look at 80 years of Radio Australia and ABC international broadcasting\u201d [&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":[960,3,305,288,43],"tags":[86,6111,8202,2742,3079,8023,368,1920,8203],"class_list":["post-41213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-abc","tag-abc-shortwave","tag-australia-calling","tag-australian-broadcasting-corporation","tag-documentaries","tag-peter-marks","tag-radio-australia","tag-radio-australia-cuts","tag-radio-australia-documentary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aIJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41227,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/now-unblocked-watching-the-new-radio-australia-documentary\/","url_meta":{"origin":41213,"position":0},"title":"Now Unblocked: Watching the new Radio Australia documentary","author":"Thomas","date":"December 17, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, we posted a note about the new documentary, \"Australia Calling: 80 Years of International Broadcasting.\" At the time, I mentioned that the video was geo-blocked--meaning, you could not watch the video outside Australia without using a VPN. Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Peter Marks, who shares this great\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;International Broadcasting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"International Broadcasting","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/international-broadcasting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-16-at-06.32.10.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-16-at-06.32.10.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-16-at-06.32.10.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-16-at-06.32.10.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":40994,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/abc-celebrates-80-years-of-international-broadcasting\/","url_meta":{"origin":41213,"position":1},"title":"ABC celebrates 80 years of international broadcasting","author":"Thomas","date":"December 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Peter Marks, who was recently invited to attend an ABC celebration. Peter wrote up a summary of the event on his blog: 80 years of international broadcasting by the ABC was celebrated this week at the headquarters in Ultimo, Sydney. David Hua, ABC Head,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;International Broadcasting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"International Broadcasting","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/international-broadcasting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Geraldine-1024x683.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Geraldine-1024x683.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Geraldine-1024x683.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10285,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/abc-radio-staff-memo-outlines-cuts-to-external-service\/","url_meta":{"origin":41213,"position":2},"title":"ABC Radio staff memo outlines cuts to external service","author":"Thomas","date":"July 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0Jonathan Marks, who has posted a letter by Michael Mason (Acting Director of ABC Radio) to the staff of ABC. Mason's letter outlines changes\u00a0to Radio Australia's external service. His key points: Radio Australia will continue to broadcast a 24\/7 schedule built on a deeper collaboration\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"ABC-Radio-Australia","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ABC-Radio-Australia.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10345,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/the-gutting-of-radio-australia\/","url_meta":{"origin":41213,"position":3},"title":"&#8220;The Gutting of Radio Australia&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"July 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Inside Story) We\u2019re sitting on the grass in the village of Matangi on the island of Futuna. This is one of the more isolated communities in Vanuatu, a small group of houses on a small island at the southeastern extreme of the archipelago. \u201cWe rely a lot on Radio\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"ABC-Radio-Australia","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ABC-Radio-Australia.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5094,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/radio-documentary-on-history-of-the-australian-broadcasting-corporation\/","url_meta":{"origin":41213,"position":4},"title":"Radio documentary on history of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation","author":"Thomas","date":"December 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: John Figliozzi via InternetRadio Digest) ABC Radio National will broadcast a weeklong series highlighting the history, development, key moments and future of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on the occasion of its 80th Anniversary, from December 24-28. \u00a0Details from: http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/specialbroadcasts\/abc-80th-anniversary\/4373618 There is a 16 hour difference between New York and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"ABC reporter, and later RN documentary maker, Tim Bowden on patrol with a US Marine squad near Da Nang in Vietnam. 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