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ABC NewsRadio, since 2017 broadcast under the
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brand and for a short time known as ABC News on Radio, is a 24-hour
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service broadcast by the Australian public broadcaster, the
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(ABC). ABC NewsRadio is available via a number of platforms around Australia, including AM/FM radio, online via web or the ABC Listen app,
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radio, free-to-air digital TV, and some pay-TV platforms. The origins of the radio station lie in the statutory obligation of the ABC to live-broadcast all
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ary sessions, which were originally (from 1946) broadcast on its national radio network. In 1988, the Parliamentary Broadcasting Network (PBN) was established as a dedicated parliamentary radio station; in August 1994 this station's frequencies were used to provide news broadcasting when Parliament was not in session, and Parliamentary and News Network (PNN), the forerunner of ABC NewsRadio, was born.


History


Background

Legislation passed in 1946 (the ''Parliamentary Proceedings Broadcasting Act 1946'') requiring the ABC to broadcast Parliament live when in session. The legislation does not determine the name of the network. Parliamentary broadcasting was commenced under
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's government on 10 July 1946, of Question Time. The broadcasts were put onto the single nationally broadcast radio network; however, the Commission frequently commented on the disruption this caused to its programming in its
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s.


1988: PBN

In August 1988, the Parliamentary Broadcast Network (PBN) was established under the National Metropolitan Radio Plan, as a dedicated network to carry the ABC's mandatory Parliamentary broadcasts on AM transmitters in each state capital as well as
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and
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.


1994: PNN

In May 1994 the Interim Report of the Inquiry into the Radio and Television Broadcasting of Parliamentary Proceedings was published, supporting the ABC's proposal to provide news on the PBN. The expanded service would be called the
Parliamentary and News Network ABC NewsRadio, since 2017 broadcast under the ABC News brand and for a short time known as ABC News on Radio, is a 24-hour news radio service broadcast by the Australian public broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). ABC ...
(PNN). On 15 August 1994 PNN was launched (6 minutes) to provide a continuous news network broadcast on the same frequencies used by the PBN, when Parliament was not sitting, with the service expanding the service to
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in March 1997 to complete its coverage to all capital cities. in the 1996–7 financial year, "ABC NewsRadio on the Parliamentary and News Network" showed the strongest growth of any ABC network, increasing its weekly reach to 397,000 listeners nationally, up 44.9%. (The news service was known for some time as ABC NewsRadio on the Parliamentary and News Network, with the last six words from in parentheses for a few years before being dropped completely in 2010.2008 AR2009 AR2010 AR
/ref>) Despite the use of the network by ABC NewsRadio, the PNN exists independent of it. The PNN falls under the ''Parliamentary Proceedings Broadcasting Act'' 1946. Parliamentary proceedings must be broadcast on the network defined by the Act.


21st century: other platforms

From September 2001, the 24-hour
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format began with live audio streaming on the Internet. ABC NewsRadio began to continue its news programming online while its radio network broadcast parliament in 2002. The service also expanded into the Gold Coast – the first new coverage area for the network in five years. From 2009, the service was extended to
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, first in the capital cities and then rolled out to regional Australia. and subscription TV services. FM transmission was expanded greatly during a 2006-2009 program. It planned to increase the AM/FM coverage from 78% of the population to 95%. In 2009, separate standard and parliamentary feeds were launched on digital terrestrial (DAB+) radio in the state capitals. In November 2016, the ABC announced that ABC NewsRadio and
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rebranded as
ABC News ABC News most commonly refers to: * ABC News (Australia), a national news service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation * ABC News (United States), a news-gathering and broadcasting division of the American Broadcasting Company ABC News may a ...
on 10 April 2017. The ABC announced on that day that ABC News 24 and ABC NewsRadio were both called ABC NEWS, with a new logo and visual branding. They would be distinguished by context or by descriptors, such as "the ABC News channel" for TV and "ABC News on radio" for radio. Social media accounts would be merged.


Content and format

ABC NewsRadio broadcasts every session live from the
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and the
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, and a delayed broadcast of parliamentary question time in the evening, on the AM/FM radio network, and is not streamed online or broadcast on digital radio. ABC NewsRadio has a 24-hour news format, drawing from all of the ABC News resources, and broadcasts live across Australia, with no delayed broadcasting to accommodate Australian time zones. Schedules may change if there is breaking news. Live parliamentary coverage takes precedence over the station's regular schedule, but while this coverage takes place (whenever Parliament is in session), regular news programming continues online, via
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(DAB+) in
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,
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,
Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ...
,
Perth Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The ...
and
Sydney Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Syd ...
. and on the ABC Listen app. The station often relays programming from the
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. ABC News also broadcasts
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matches on weekends in some states. As of 2017, there were around 700 transmitters across Australia.


Logo history


Branding gallery

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Footnotes


References


External links

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