ABC Jazz turns 10

10 years ago, ABC Jazz began as digital radio station in Australia, and in 2018, were the number 1 digital-only network in Australia, averaging 223,000 listeners every week for the calendar year.
 
Today they are celebrating their 10th birthday and their programming celebrates the past decade of broadcasting with Mal Stanley & Jessica Nicholas playing their 10 year highlights all day long.
 
At 5.30pm, James Valentine shares the best ABC Jazz recordings from the past decade, then at 7.00pm join Monica Trapaga has a birthday Dinner Set planned and to round it all out, Home Cooked will be spinning the best Australian Jazz albums of the last decade after 10pm.

Here are some numbers from the first 10 years

  • 87,408 hours of consecutive jazz radio
  • Estimated 889,880 tracks played
  • 29.4% of all broadcasts are for Australian artists

 
 
 

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