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The ABC says it has cut back the number of half-hourly radio news updates in Adelaide to free up resources to chase “high impact local radio stories”.
Notes on Adelaide
In today’s Notes on Adelaide column, the ABC’s doomed sound archive in Adelaide starts to empty as staff and others are invited to take what they want, a journalist breaks from the pack on Archbishop Philip Wilson, and much more.
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The ABC quietly closed its Adelaide sound library days before the March state election, with new revelations that the drift of jobs away from South Australia over several years played a part in the decision to axe the facility.
The ABC’s interstate management wants to close the historic sound library in Adelaide only a short time after it completed an apparently expensive move of the collection from one part of the Collinswood HQ to another.
Radio Adelaide will contemplate its own rebrand after it agreed to an out-of-court settlement with the ABC, allowing the public broadcaster to change the name of its local station to “ABC Radio Adelaide”.
ABC Adelaide has appointed high-profile media personality Jules Schiller as its new Drive presenter.
