According to Crikey’s Tips and Rumours, Radio is the next target of cost cuts at the ABC.

“Concerned informants within the ABC”, says the publication, “are operating with the understanding that the ABC will announce redundancies at Radio National and ABC Radio in the very near future — some say as early as tomorrow. No one is very clear on how many or where they’ll be, but Crikey is told the paperwork is being prepared.”

When asked by radioinfo to comment on the rumours, a spokesperson for ABC Radio would only say, “There’ll be news this week when we announce our content and presenter lineups for 2017.”

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Meantime sources told Guardian Australia all but one of RN’s music programs will be cancelled “as the network becomes a talk-only station.” A Guardian report speculated:

RN Afternoons, The Body Sphere, Soundproof, Daily Planet and The Live Set are expected to be cancelled along with the religious affairs program Sunday Nights with John Cleary.

Conservative commentator Tom Switzer, an adjunct fellow of the IPA, has been given another show in addition to Between The Lines.

Switzer will replace Jonathan Green on Sunday Extra, RN’s live Sunday morning broadcast of Ockham’s Razor, Background Briefing, and First Dog on the Moon.

“The changes are expected to save at least $3m which will be spent on ABC Radio’s digital strategy,” said Guardian Australia.