{"id":5203,"date":"2012-12-23T07:32:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T11:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5203"},"modified":"2012-12-23T07:39:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T11:39:08","slug":"saturday-night-country-takes-you-down-under-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/saturday-night-country-takes-you-down-under-for-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night Country takes you &#8216;down under&#8217; for the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3684\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/FelicitySatNightCountry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3684\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3684\" alt=\"Felicity Urquhart, host of ABC's Saturday Night Country. (photo: ABC)\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/FelicitySatNightCountry-300x171.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/FelicitySatNightCountry-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/FelicitySatNightCountry-100x57.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/FelicitySatNightCountry.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicity Urquhart, host of ABC&#8217;s Saturday Night Country. (photo: ABC)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been reading the SWLing Post for long, you&#8217;ll know how much I love ABC&#8217;s Saturday Night Country, which I tune to every Saturday morning starting on 9,580 kHz.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, host Felicity Urquhart produced another great mix of interviews and music, including some uniquely Australian Country Christmas songs.<\/p>\n<p>You can download the recordings of the show as MP3s by <a title=\"Saturday Night Country part 1 9580 kHz\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/AbcRadioAustraliaSaturdayNightCountry-9.58mhzAnd11.945mhz\/RadioAustraliaSatNightCountry-9.5799.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here for the first hour of Saturday Night Country on 9,580 kHz <\/a>and <a title=\"Part 2 of Saturday Night Country 11,945 kHz\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/AbcRadioAustraliaSaturdayNightCountry-9.58mhzAnd11.945mhz\/RadioAustraliaSatNightCountry-11.945.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here for the rest of the show on 11,945 kHz<\/a>, or by simply listening via the embedded player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/AbcRadioAustraliaSaturdayNightCountry-9.58mhzAnd11.945mhz&amp;playlist=1\" height=\"95\" width=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been reading the SWLing Post for long, you&#8217;ll know how much I love ABC&#8217;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 can download the recordings of [&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":[56,442,1557,746,43],"tags":[1169,1556,368,1555],"class_list":["post-5203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-podcast","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-abc-saturday-night-country","tag-christmas-music","tag-radio-australia","tag-shortwave-christmas-specials"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1lV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5747,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/shortwave-radio-recordings-saturday-night-country\/","url_meta":{"origin":5203,"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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Fortunately, I captured\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\/12\/ABC-Radio-Australia.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3936,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/a-little-more-saturday-night-country-via-radio-australia\/","url_meta":{"origin":5203,"position":2},"title":"A little more Saturday Night Country via Radio Australia","author":"Thomas","date":"July 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I've mentioned before how much I love this show--you don'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'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":5203,"position":3},"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":5567,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/radio-australias-jazz-notes\/","url_meta":{"origin":5203,"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. The show is hosted by\u00a0Ivan Lloyd and has\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Jazz Notes presenter, Ivan Lloyd (Photo: Radio Australia)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/jazznotes400x300-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":19813,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/new-managing-director-of-abc-signals-a-return-to-international-broadcasting\/","url_meta":{"origin":5203,"position":5},"title":"New Managing Director of ABC signals a return to international broadcasting","author":"Thomas","date":"June 29, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Phil Brennan, who writes: The following piece regarding Radio Australia caught my eye last week. It was authored by Hamish McDonald and appeared in the 18 June 2016 edition of the Saturday Paper. 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