''Local Radio Breakfast'' is an early morning Australian radio program. The program is broadcast on the ABC Local Radio network and is simulcast to state-based metro and regional radio studios and newsroom. Featuring news, talk-back, social issues, information, music and entertainment; the program is broadcast live to audiences in Australia's eastern states and, due to a difference in time zones, on delay to audiences in westerns states.

Background

''Local Radio Breakfast'' programming includes live broadcasts of news, music and community service announcements. The program airs between 5:30am and 8am

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, prior to the daily current affairs program, ''AM'', at 8am. A weekend edition of the program, ''Saturday Breakfast'', is broadcast from 6am to 7:45am

Format

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theme tune. The weekday ''Local Radio Breakfast'' program involves a presenter highlighting key news stories, introducing a musical playlist and making community announcements. An average of four major current affairs news items are presented each hour, with precedence reserved earlier in the program for deeper analysis and discussion of key new stories. Key news items include a mix of reports from ABC correspondents, the

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. ''Local Radio Breakfast'' also involves interviews with a variety of people, including federal and state politicians, prominent academic or social commentators, persons of interest, celebrities and people involved in current affairs or breaking news stories. ''National Breakfast'' is a similar broadcast on metro and regional ABC radio stations, whose content is identical to the morning broadcast on ABC's 24-hour TV News channel. ''National Breakfast'' differs from ''Local Radio Breakfast'' in that the content of the program has a strictly national focus.

''AM''

At 8am, ''Local Radio Breakfast'' switches over to ''AM''. ''AM'' is the ABC's flagship national radio current affairs program, and follows an identical format to similar long-running ABC current affairs programs, ''The World Today'' and ''PM''. ''AM'' is presented by Sabra Lane, an award-winning ABC journalist. The ''AM'' program in presented on weekends between 8am and 8:30am, after which listeners are ‘returned’ to local hosts and state based radio programs.

References

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External links

ABC Local Radio websiteABC NEWS WATCH
controversial blog site dedicated to critical analysis of ABC radio

link to daily podcasts of ''Local Radio Breakfast'' and other ABC programs ABC Radio and Regional Content Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio programs Breakfast radio Australian talk radio programs