ABC managing director apologises to audience, amid strike action
A majority of staff who voted rejected the broadcaster's latest pay offer on the three-year enterprise bargaining agreement, which paved the way for the strike action.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-25/abc-journalists-24-hour-strike-action-begins/106493282
Radio Taiwan International’s Shortwave Transmissions in English
Something is weird at Radio Taiwan International (RTI). Their English-language transmission for South Asia on 9405 kHz, at 16:00 UTC, usually comes in rather well in Europe, too. However, the opening bulletins are always old news. It was the Friday bulletin when I listened on Monday (yesterday), and the Monday bulletin when I listened again on Tuesday (today). On both days, the audio files they had chosen for transmission were actually correct – Monday’s program was according to schedule with "Beyond the Reefs" and "Doomscroll News Report" on Monday, and "Hear in Taiwan" on Tuesday. But why the old news on an otherwise current reel?
I found the same pattern on July 11 last year, when that Friday program ran the Thursday news bulletin.
This means that a news bulletin that the European audience gets to hear in French and German at 19:00 UTC on one day, will be beamed to South Asian listeners only a day – 21 hours – later.
The English transmissions are still worth to be listened to, but RTI gives away a classical ace that radio could and should have: speediness, if not realtime newsbreaking.
Suggestion: let’s send the occasional reception report to RTI’s English service, and express our surprise that the only English-language transmission available on shortwave (as far as I know, it is their only one) broadcasts old news. To show that we care might help keeping the program on air.
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ABC staff to go on 24-hour strike after rejecting pay offer
Staff were informed this morning that a majority of ABC workers had voted against the broadcaster's latest enterprise agreement offer.
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HFCC A26 Transmission and Programme schedules / BBC World Service’s Internet Focus “backfires”
The HFCC have published their global B25 A26 shortwave plan, taking effect mostly on March 29 (with some likely exceptions in North America). The organization says it seeks to eliminate "inaccuracies and ‘reserve’ frequency requirements from the global schedule database".
The HFCC global shortwave plans are among the most meaningful reference points to find or identify broadcasts on shortwave, arguably along with Eibi Space, and the BDXC’s frequently updated DX Guides.
While shortwave usage is indeed shrinking, international broadcasters may sometimes jump to premature conclusions. Recent reports suggest that the BBC World Service’s shift to online media has "backfired". Shortwave isn’t mentioned in particular here, but the BBC had been warned:
As transmitters can’t go on strike or lobby politicians, they can be cut with the promise of the internet. There are many pros for internet services and streaming in general, such as ease of implementation, low running costs and less need for specialized technical staff,
RedTech’s Ruxandra Obreja wrote in February 2023, adding that
However, the most important attribute of shortwave, beyond its free availability, is the anonymity it offers listeners. This may not be so important in, say, Britain or the United States, but it is significant in authoritarian states like China or Myanmar. The truth is that millions of people still rely on free-to-air radio in the car or at home for news, information, entertainment, education and the increasingly essential emergency warnings.
There may be a bit of a silver lining now, for the BBC:
[t]he BBC World Service will see funding increased by an additional £33 million over the next three years, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper
was expected to confirm last week, according to the "Independent".
After decades of BBC-bashing by Labour and Tories alike, March 2026 seems to become BBC appreciation month.
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