{"id":5003,"date":"2012-12-09T16:56:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T20:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5003"},"modified":"2012-12-09T16:56:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T20:56:28","slug":"radio-australia-saturday-night-country-mixes-in-holiday-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/radio-australia-saturday-night-country-mixes-in-holiday-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Australia: Saturday Night Country mixes in holiday music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5006\" title=\"ABC-Radio-Australia\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ABC-Radio-Australia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ABC-Radio-Australia.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ABC-Radio-Australia-100x66.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Yesterday, like most Saturday mornings, I sipped my coffee while listening to ABC&#8217;s <a title=\"SNC's homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/snc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Country<\/a> from Radio Australia&#8217;s Shepparton shortwave transmission site on 9.58 MHz.<\/p>\n<p>In this program, SNC&#8217;s host, Felicity\u00a0Urquhart, shuffled in some holiday tunes with her normal mix of country music, news and interviews. Fortunately, I captured the whole show in\u00a0two recordings (starting on <a title=\"Download this segment\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioAustralia-SaturdayNightCountry-08Dec2012_851\/RadioAustralia-SatNightCountry-9.58M.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">9.58 MHz for the first hour<\/a>, then moving to <a title=\"Download the second recording\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioAustralia-SaturdayNightCountry-08Dec2012_851\/RadioAustralia-SatNightCountry-11.94.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">11.945 MHz for the rest of the show<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/RadioAustralia-SaturdayNightCountry-08Dec2012_851&amp;playlist=1\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"130\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, like most Saturday mornings, I sipped my coffee while listening to ABC&#8217;s Saturday Night Country from Radio Australia&#8217;s Shepparton shortwave transmission site on 9.58 MHz. In this program, SNC&#8217;s host, Felicity\u00a0Urquhart, shuffled in some holiday tunes with her normal mix of country music, news and interviews. Fortunately, I captured the whole show in\u00a0two recordings [&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":[56,442,746,43,1167],"tags":[1169,1171,1522,1168,1170],"class_list":["post-5003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-abc-saturday-night-country","tag-felicity-urquhart","tag-radio-australia-saturday-night-country","tag-radio-australia-shepparton","tag-saturday-night-country-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1iH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5747,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/shortwave-radio-recordings-saturday-night-country\/","url_meta":{"origin":5003,"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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If you live in North America, you'll find the signal out of Shepparton, Australia\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\/07\/1-robpottsfelicityurqhartdierksbentley-300x238.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3681,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/radio-australias-saturday-night-country-is-a-part-of-my-saturday-morning\/","url_meta":{"origin":5003,"position":2},"title":"Radio Australia&#8217;s Saturday Night Country is a part of my Saturday morning","author":"Thomas","date":"June 4, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Even though it's well over\u00a09,800 miles (15,800 kilometers) and many time zones from where I live, I listen to Radio Australia's\u00a0Shepparton broadcast site perhaps more than any other on the shortwave bands. 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":5203,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/saturday-night-country-takes-you-down-under-for-the-holidays\/","url_meta":{"origin":5003,"position":3},"title":"Saturday Night Country takes you &#8216;down under&#8217; for the holidays","author":"Thomas","date":"December 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"If you've been reading the SWLing Post for long, you'll know how much I love ABC's Saturday Night Country, which I tune to every Saturday morning starting on 9,580 kHz. Yesterday, host Felicity Urquhart produced another great mix of interviews and music, including some uniquely Australian Country Christmas songs. You\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Felicity Urquhart, host of ABC's Saturday Night Country. (photo: ABC)","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":5567,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/radio-australias-jazz-notes\/","url_meta":{"origin":5003,"position":4},"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. Jazz Notes showcases the best in Australian jazz, often featuring new and original recordings made in ABC's studios. 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