The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has launched ABC Radio Australia on FM in Tuvalu for the first time, marking another milestone in the network\u2019s expansion in the Pacific. Tuvalu audiences can now enjoy ABC Radio Australia\u2019s full suite of Pacific-focused news, music, sport and cultural programming on 102FM.<\/p>\n
The ABC has also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Tuvalu Broadcasting Corporation (TVBC), demonstrating the ongoing partnership between the two public broadcasters. The MOU supports future opportunities for the ABC and TVBC to share technical knowledge and content, and recognises each organisation\u2019s respective role providing public interest broadcasting services to their national audiences.<\/p>\n
The ABC and TVBC signed the MOU and celebrated the historic launch of the new service at a ceremony in Funafuti, Tuvalu.<\/p>\n
ABC International Head Claire M. Gorman, who co-hosted the ceremony, said: \u201cWe are incredibly excited to be commemorating the collaboration between the ABC and TVBC in launching ABC Radio Australia in Tuvalu and welcome everyone to enjoy the new FM radio service. The MOU between the ABC and TVBC also marks an important milestone in our partnership, and I look forward to future opportunities for us both to work together in supporting our audiences across Tuvalu and Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n
TVBC Managing Director Yvette D\u2019Unienville Isaac, who also co-hosted the ceremony, said: \u201cWe welcome the new ABC Radio Australia FM service with open arms and are thrilled to be formalising the excellent relationship that TVBC enjoys with the ABC. We hope the new MOU leads to a greater cross-cultural exchange of ideas and information and deepens the connections and friendships between our countries.\u201d<\/p>\n
ABC Radio Australia has recently expanded its FM transmission footprint to include Nauru, Palau, Pohnpei (Federated States of Micronesia), Kokopo (Papua New Guinea) and Gizo (Solomon Islands) and plans to launch in more new locations in coming months including Kiribati, the Cook Islands, Marshall Islands, Lorengau in Papua New Guinea, and Buka in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.<\/p>\n
WAYS TO LISTEN:<\/strong><\/p>\n Tuvalu residents can now listen on 102FM to high quality ABC Radio Australia programming including\u00a0Pacific Beat<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Nesia Daily,<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>Climate Mana<\/em><\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0Culture<\/em>\u00a0Compass<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Pacific Pulse<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Pacific Soul<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Stories from the Pacific<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Fresh Off The Field<\/em><\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0<\/em>Nesian Footy,<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>Island Music<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Sista Sounds<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n There are multiple ways to listen to ABC Radio Australia \u2013\u00a0live via internet streaming<\/a>\u00a0or in your area through\u00a024-hour FM stations<\/a>, or catch up with full episodes on\u00a0ABC Pacific online<\/a>.<\/p>\n About ABC International Services<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Since 1939, the ABC has been broadcasting to audiences overseas. The International division reaches an estimated 14,224,065 unique monthly overseas audiences through owned and operated platforms including ABC Australia, ABC Radio Australia and ABC websites and apps including ABC Pacific and ABC Asia. The ABC\u2019s international audiences come from all corners of the globe. ABC Australia, the ABC\u2019s international television service available in 37 markets throughout Asia and the Pacific, has a monthly viewership of at least 3,905,050. ABC Radio Australia, the ABC\u2019s international radio service available via FM in the Pacific and Timor Leste, has a monthly listenership of at least 321,225. Outside Australia, ABC websites and apps have an average global monthly usership of 9,997,790 which includes approximately 7,505,085 users across the Americas, Europe and Africa and 1,865,655 users in Asia.<\/em><\/p>\n \u200b<\/p>\n *Figures based on the ABC 2022-23 Annual Report<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has launched ABC Radio Australia on FM in Tuvalu for the first time, marking another milestone in the network\u2019s expansion in the Pacific. Tuvalu audiences can now enjoy ABC Radio Australia\u2019s full suite of Pacific-focused news, music, sport and cultural programming on 102FM. The ABC has also signed a Memorandum … Continue reading “ABC signs MOU and launches ABC Radio Australia in Tuvalu”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian","category-overseas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}