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EXCLUSIVE: Some BBC World Service teams are to be asked to relocate away from the UK as they prepare for impending cuts, Deadline understands. Staff within the BBC's global news division are

(Reuters) The BBC World Service has proposed to its staff to move a few more regional language services, including the Chinese and Urdu service, to digital only, in a move that will result in 382 job positions being closed, the BBC said on Thursday.

The ABC has launched the ABC Pacific digital platform to meet the needs of growing digital audiences across the Pacific. ABC Pacific will replace ABC Radio Australia’s existing homepage and social media accounts. Content currently hosted on the ABC Radio Australia webpages will now be found on

The move comes as Russia restricts access to the BBC's websites. The two new shortwave frequencies are broadcasting four hours of news in English each day and can be picked up clearly in Kyiv and parts of Russia.

A Chinese station takes over the shortwave radio frequencies once used by the ABC in the Pacific region, following the broadcaster's decision to end shortwave services.

There is a push in Australia to re-establish Radio Australia's services to the Asia/Pacific region.

The RFE/RL played an important role during the Cold War and continues its great work today.'

Australia's senate has rejected proposed legislation to restore the international radio service of the country's public broadcaster.

South Australian NXT Party leader and senator Nick Xenophon is not happy the Radio Australia broadcast site has been put on the market, before a planned bill to revive the service has gone to a vote.. The north Shepparton site, which holds the

For sale, one large semi-rural 229ha block. Key features include large-scale grazing potential, two irrigation channels and a shortwave antenna that can broadcast to all over the globe.. The former shortwave broadcasting station that for decades

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has made a Senate submission opposing a bill which would force it to restore its shortwave services for the Northern Territory and the Pacific.

The decision of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to end shortwave broadcasts to the South Pacific is a serious blunder, based on a shrinking, insular view of ABC responsibilities. The ABC should be embarrassed...Only an organisation that’s spent the last decade withdrawing resources from the

The government of Vanuatu has sent a formal submission to the Australian Senate asking for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to resume its shortwave service.

Kevin De Reus has lived in the same 24 kilometre radius his whole life but it has not stopped him from seeing the world with the help of a shortwave radio.

African bishops have asked Radio Vatican, the official radio of the pope, to restore shortwave transmissions to the continent, the Catholic agency Fides reported on Friday. Catholics are estimated to number more than 150 million in Africa, the poorest of

The BBC World Service has stopped broadcasting from one of its major global transmission stations situated in Thailand, AFP has learned, after talks broke down with a junta riled by its uncensored coverage. Sources with knowledge of the negotiations said

Britain's BBC has announced it is ending its shortwave transmissions from Thailand after 20 years of operation because it failed to reach agreement with Thailand's military government on a renewal of its operating permit

MD defends shortwave radio cuts and tells Senate hearing ABC is not official emergency broadcaster

ABC Managing Director Michelle Guthrie answers questions at a Senate Estimates hearing into the decision to cut the ABC's shortwave service.

ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie insists the broadcaster is still meeting its charter obligations despite axing the shortwave radio service in the NT.