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ABC Radio National
Broadcast areaFlag of Australia Australia - National AM/FM & Internet
FrequencyVariable
First air date1932
FormatTalk
OwnerAustralian Broadcasting Corporation
Websiteabc.net.au/rn

ABC Radio National is an Australia-wide radio network broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with many various programs, involving news and current affairs, arts, music, society, science, drama and comedy. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Frequency is a measure of the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit Time. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. This article is about Broadcast radio, for other uses see Radio (disambiguation. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly abbreviated to the 'ABC' is Australia's national public broadcaster. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly abbreviated to the 'ABC' is Australia's national public broadcaster. News is any new information or information on Current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or Word of mouth Current affairs is a Genre of Broadcast journalism where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of News stories that have recently occurred Art refers to a diverse range of Human activities creations and expressions that are appealing to the Senses or Emotions of a human individual Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. A society is a Population of Humans characterized by patterns of relationships between individuals that share a distinctive Culture and Institutions Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning " Knowledge " or "knowing" is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding Drama is the specific mode of Fiction represented in Performance. Comedy (from the Greek κωμωδίαkomodia has a popular meaning (any discourse generally intended to amuse especially in Television, Film, and Some programs are mirrored on Radio Australia, Australia's shortwave service. ABC Radio Australia is the international broadcasting and online service operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia 's public broadcaster Shortwave Radio operates between the frequencies of 3000 KHz (3

The radio programs from many of the stations are available for real-time streaming over the Internet, or for downloading as MP3 podcast files. Streaming multimedia is Multimedia that is constantly received by and normally presented to an end-user while it is being delivered by a streaming provider (the The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a Digital audio encoding format using a form of Lossy data compression A podcast is a series of audio or Video digital-media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated Download Some programs also have transcripts available on the Radio National website.

Radio National as it is known today has had a long history. RN's Sydney station 2FC first broadcast in 1923, the ABC taking over all existing "A" Class stations in 1932. Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. 2FC stood for Farmer and Company, the original owner of the station before the ABC took it over. ABC Radio National is an Australia-wide Radio network broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with many various programs involving News and The Melbourne station, 3AR, began in 1924, followed soon after by 6WF Perth, 4QG Brisbane, 5CL Adelaide and 7ZL Hobart. Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. Brisbane ( is the state capital of Queensland. Brisbane is the third most populous city in Australia and the most populous city of Queensland Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia with a Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania.

From 1947 until mid 1980s, "Radio 2" (as it became known) was broadcast to the major metropolitan centres with additional reception in adjacent areas. It contained most of the ABC's national programming. It began to take on a more serious tone in the 1970s. Peter Timm, an art critic, notes ABC Radio National is "virtually the only non-print media forum for art in this country. "[1]

In 1985 ABC renamed Radio 2 to Radio National. Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) Since 1990, all RN stations have had the same callsign format - *RN, where * is the appropriate number for the state or territory.

Contents

Typical programs

The times shown relate to Radio National's schedules in the eastern states of Australia

News

News and analysis

Talkback

Arts and music

Religion

Radio National's religion unit provides reporting and analysis on religious and ethical issues for Australia. Following its ABC charter obligations, this unit forms a key part of the ABC's religion output, and is unique in providing the independent analysis of a public broadcaster.

Society

Science

See also

External links

References

  1. ^ Timms, Peter. List of Australian radio stations. A list of Radio stations that broadcast in Australia. Radio New Zealand National (formerly National Radio is a publicly-funded non-commercial New Zealand Radio network operated by Radio New Zealand. This page provides a Timeline of the main events that charted the course of Australian radio What's Wrong With Contemporary Art? 2004, UNSW Press, ISBN 0868404071, page 102
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