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May 26th, 2009

With ABC NewsRadio’s daily news poll really hitting its stride now, it’s time throw the net a little wider for all you news junkies .. and find out what your favourite news headline is so far this year!

There are always some beauties from around Australia and the rest of the world.

They can be funny, dramatic, moving and challenging – and come in all shapes and sizes now, via newspapers as well as on line news sites - so we’d like know what you think is the best of them.

To get things moving, here’s a recent ripper from the ABC’s own news ‘crawl’ that runs at the back of its Sydney headquarters: ‘Man Takes Shortcut, Killed By Tiger’.

If you’ve seen a good one, let us know by leaving a reply below and we’ll start building ABC NewsRadio’s Best Headlines of 2009 data bank!

February 27th, 2009

Hundreds of Twitter users now follow ABC NewsRadio - and you are invited to join them.

We offer one-click updates and links to our live interviews, daily news polls, and much more - so take a look at www.twitter.com/ABC_NewsRadio

If you already have a Twitter account, then simply follow ABC_NewsRadio – that’s ABC (underscore) NewsRadio.

We’ll also be alerting you to breaking news right across the week with regular ‘tweets’.

That’s ABC NewsRadio: your news, now.

January 27th, 2009

As the whole world focused on America’s Inauguration Day last week, we asked you about the out-going and in-coming Presidents, George W Bush and Barack Obama.

As we know, the former President’s mangling of language quickly became known as ‘Bush-isms’ and they continued right to the end of his second term.

So we gave you a list of five to choose from - and ‘They mis-underestimated me’ was a clear winner with 34% of you, followed by the more naff ‘Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech’ garnering 22%.

In contrast, nearly 60% of you believe the greatest challenge ahead for new President Obama is the US economy…

While more than 70% are sure that he will honour his commitment to close Guantanamo Bay within 12 months. 

View the detailed results of these polls here.

 

January 6th, 2009

The results are in!

ABC NewsRadio asked you to tell us what you thought was the most important sports story of 2008. And in the year of the Beijing Olympics, nearly thirty percent of listeners voted for Australian Matthew Mitcham’s greatest-ever Olympic dive, followed by Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt’s three gold medals and American superfish Michael Phelps’ haul of eight gold medals. Certain events in tennis and racing came in next!

Here’s the complete list of the 10 most important sports stories of the past 12 months, as voted by you, ranked in order:

1. Matthew Mitcham’s greatest-ever Olympic dive 28.6%
2. Usain Bolt’s amazing 3 gold medals 21.7%
3. Michael Phelps, superfish, wins 8 gold medals 13.6%
4. Wimbledon Men’s Final (Nadal V Federer) 9.9%
5. Bart Cummings, master trainer, wins his 12th Melbourne Cup (with Viewed) 6.9%
6. Hawthorn beats (hot favourite) Geelong in the AFL Grand Final 6.4%
7. Manly beats (hot favourite) Melbourne in the NRL Grand Final 4.4%
8. Adam Gilchrist, wicket-keeper extraordinaire, retires 4.2%
9. Tiger Woods takes the US Open (literally on one good leg) 3.5%
10. Ben Cousins resumes his footy career (at Richmond) 0.7%

View the results of our other web polls here.

December 30th, 2008

The results are in!

ABC NewsRadio’s first annual end-of-year News poll has delivered an intriguing result.

We were keen to find out what you thought was the most significant news story of 2008. And just over a third of listeners who voted believe it was Barack Obama’s election as US President, on the first Wednesday of November! Less than a quarter felt the global financial crisis was the major news event, while the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe and the Mumbai attacks were the next most critical, according to voters.

Here’s the complete list of the 10 most important stories of the past 12 months, as voted by you, ranked in order:

1. Barack Obama elected as US President 33.9%
2. Global financial meltdown 23.3%
3. Zimbabwe cholera outbreak 9.6%
4. Mumbai blasts 9.0%
5. China earthquake 8.7%
6. Apology to the Stolen Generations 8.2%
7. Heath Ledger dies 3.6%
8. World Youth Day 1.4%
9. Fidel Castro resigns 1.2%
10. Burma cyclone 1.2%

Now go to our latest poll - and vote for your Sports story of the year!

December 24th, 2008

David Lord, one of Australia’s iconic sports broadcasters returns to ABC NewsRadio on special assignment to talk with some of Australia’s iconic sporting greats. His weekly program, called Green and Gold Greats will air on Saturdays at 11.00am and over the next four months he’ll talk to living legends as diverse as Sam Loxton, Betty Cuthbert, Ken Rosewall, Margaret Court, Ron Barassi and Marjorie Jackson-Nelson.

December 8th, 2008

From Monday 8 December there will be some changes to the ABC NewsRadio schedule. While the Breakfast team remains the same with host Glen Bartholomew, political editor Marius Benson and sports reporter Debbie Spillane, Anna Hipsley moves to host Mornings and John Barron presents Drive. Afternoons will again be a ‘tag team’ affair, with Shon Walker sharing presenting/producing with Ben McLean. In addition Kel Richards moves to Weekend afternoons to present five-minute national bulletins every half hour and provide a welcome local ‘voice’ amidst our international partners. There will also be a new mix of BBC material on air between 7 and 9pm, Monday to Friday, and a weekly half-hour series by Fiona Ellis-Jones focusing on African news and current affairs.

November 25th, 2008

Debbie Spillane in Broome

Over the past month three new ABC NewsRadio frequencies were launched in Western Australia as part of the ABC Trailer roadshow:

Broome 106.9FM
Karratha 104.1FM
Geraldton 101.3FM

ABC NewsRadio’s intrepid sports reporter Debbie Spillane had the task of launching the station in Broome, giving nearly 16,000 listeners access to Australia’s only continuous news station.

Over the course of the ABC NewsRadio new frequency rollout WA have received 10 ten frequencies, stretching from Albany to Broome, giving over 200,000 people access to the station.