ABC Radio Australia
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Station facts
- Country
Australia- Language
- English
- Genres
- News and talk
- Codec and bitrate
- AAC · HLS stream
- Official site
- abc.net.au
About ABC Radio Australia
ABC Radio Australia is a news and talk radio station in Australia, broadcasting in English.
It is one of 85 news and talk stations we list in Australia.
The live stream plays in your browser as an HLS stream, straight from the station’s own server.
Background
ABC Radio Australia is the ABC's international radio service, and one of its oldest. Prime Minister Robert Menzies opened the ABC's shortwave broadcasts on 20 December 1939, soon after the Second World War began, partly to answer enemy propaganda aimed at the region. By 1945 the service was broadcasting in 15 languages, and for decades it reached Asia and the Pacific mainly on shortwave.
The last shortwave broadcasts to the Pacific ended in January 2017. Today the service is heard on FM transmitters in seven Pacific island countries and online, mostly in English, with some Tok Pisin and a daily news bulletin in French. The ABC now publishes its content for the region under the ABC Pacific and ABC Asia names, and in December 2024 it marked 85 years of international broadcasting.
- Opened
- 20 December 1939, by Prime Minister Robert Menzies
- Languages today
- English, Tok Pisin and French
- Run by
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Heard on
- FM in seven Pacific countries, and online
- Shortwave ended
- January 2017
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