Live gigs and festivals are being cancelled around the world, so to help support artists, triple j is holding a special edition of their annual Ausmusic T-Shirt Day on Friday 17 April.
 
Plus, they’ll be playing Australian music all day across the ABC’s networks including triple j, Double J, triple j Unearthed, ABC Radio, ABC Country, ABC Classic and ABC Jazz.
 

Former ABC newsreader, soccer and public affairs commentator John (Martin) Royal passed away on the weekend aged 99, at Baptcare’s Karana nursing home in Kew.
 
John came to Australia at the end of WWII, joined the ABC, adopting the onair name of Martin as there was already a John Royal working in the Melbourne studios.
 
He went on to become one of the country’s most respected news readers and program presenters, first on radio, and later, from 1955, on TV.
 

When Stanley John Bancroft constructed his first crystal set as a young teenager in the 1920’s, it sparked a fascination with radio that lasted a lifetime.
 
Beginning with the PMG as a Junior Mechanic in Training and with an interest in radio, Stanley got his first job in broadcasting with 2CY, Canberra in 1938, to set up the parliamentary broadcasts.
 
 
 

The ACMA has released its Future delivery of radio report, that lays out its

When too much sport is barely enough, the ABC has announced that Rampaging Roy Slaven (John Doyle) and H.G. Nelson (Greig Pickhaver) will be on the radio just in time for the footy season, to present Bludging on the Blindside.

Indira Naidoo will return to the ABC in February to host ABC Radio’s Weekend 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.   
 

ABC cricket commentator Jim Maxwell talks to Steve Ahern about his stroke and why radio cricket is still booming

Radio on TV.... without the actual TV

Summer, the time for holidays, the festive season, family vacation and time to throw out your old unwanted radio line-up and try on something new.

SCA have begun to make wholesale changes with anywhere between 50 – 100 redundancies rumoured.