Indira Naidoo will return to the ABC in Februaryto host ABC Radio’sWeekend Nightlife.
Ms Naidoo will present the national program each Friday, Saturday and Sunday, sharing hosting duties with Philip Clark, who presents the show Mondays to Thursdays.
Director of ABC Regional & Local, Judith Whelan, says:
The ABC will focus on the communities most affected by the ongoing bushfires as part of its 2020 Australia Day coverage.
The ABC will broaden its Australia Day coverage this year to include stories from the regions that have been impacted by bushfires. Emergency broadcasting, however, will remain at the core of its service for those communities still under threat from bushfires.
Myf Warhurst went through her whole show on Friday before revealing to her audience that she would not be returning to ABC local radio next year.
There were some hints that something was wrong when she began the show by asking for requests that listeners needed to hear today, then played a request for herself titled Ball of Confusion.
Through the show she told isteners this was her last show for the year, but it wasn't until the very end of the show that she revealed it was her last show ever.
ABC Radio will not be covering the Olympics next year, due to cost pressures.
For the first time since the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, the ABC will not have a live radio broadcast of the Games, with the national broadcaster citing "budget pressures and the changing broadcast environment" as reasons not to bid for the non-commercial radio rights. Channel Seven is the top level rights holder in Australia.
The ABC’s Senior Researcher in Archives, John Spence, died peacefully over the weekend.
In a note to staff, ABC Director Regional & Local, Judith Whelan, wrote
As a Senior Radio Researcher in Archives, John was one of those people who connected in so many ways with so many people over the 30 plus years he worked here. He has always been the first person our program teams would go to for help with archival material and his knowledge of ABC Radio’s history was second-to-none.
Deputy leader of the Nationals and Minister for Agriculture, Bridget McKenzie, is calling on the ABC to provide quality regional services and venture into territory that does not solely rely on ratings.
In her private Senators Bill Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment (Rural and Regional Advocacy) Bill 2015, the Minister has addressed the question of what she believes the ABC’s mandate in regional Australia should be.
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