[Swprograms] Coming Changes at Radio Australia

[jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

With the station's summer vacation schedule coming to an end, there are some changes afoot at Radio Australia.

1.  The "Grandstand" weekend sports program will continue to air on all shortwave frequencies, instead of on just a few special frequencies as had been the case in the past.

2.  When the Australian Football League and National Rugby League seasons commence this fall (spring in the Northern Hemisphere), RA's weekend audio streaming will initially have to go silent--as it did over the summer (winter) when the station was broadcasting a considerable amount of cricket.  Telstra owns the streaming rights to AFL and NRL broadcasts.  However, RA is working on the creation of an alternative program schedule for its audio streaming service that would run as a substitute for Grandstand on the weekends.  The station hopes to have this alternative in place by sometime in March.  At that time the streaming service will once again be 24/7.

3.  "The Buzz" and "Earthbeat" are no longer being carried on the RA schedule.  Substitute programming will air until 28 February, when an entirely new program schedule is to go into effect.

4.  One major feature of that new schedule will be a new daily two hour magazine-type current affairs/conversation/cultural program designed and produced by RA specifically for its primary audience in the Pacific and Asia.  Details will be forthcoming.

John Figliozzi
Halfmoon, NY

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