AM (ABC Radio)
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| Genre | News and current affairs |
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| Country | Australia |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | ABC's Radio National and Local Radio |
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| Website | abc |
| Podcast | abc |
AM, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's flagship current-affairs radio program, is one of Australia's longest-running productions. Its tagline is Ensure you are informed.
AM was created in 1967 for what were then ABC Radio 1 and Radio 3 (now ABC Local Radio). Aired every morning at 8 am (after the 7.45 am news bulletin), it soon became Australia's most-popular morning radio current-affairs program.
Two years later, ABC Radio's evening current-affairs program, PM was created as a companion program. It is now the ABC's flagship evening current affairs program.
AM was later introduced to ABC Radio 2 (now Radio National) with a new early edition at 7.05 am after the 7 am news. In recent times, the 7 am news was lengthened from the standard 5-minute duration to 10 minutes, meaning that Radio National's edition of AM had to be truncated to 20 minutes in length. As a result of this, the early edition carries one or two fewer stories than the full half-hour-long 8 am edition, still broadcast on ABC Local Radio.
The Radio National edition of AM is broadcast during Radio National's Breakfast program, which is presented by journalist Fran Kelly.
AM is also broadcast on Saturday mornings at the same time on Radio National, 7.10 am, as Saturday AM. Like its weekday counterpart, Saturday AM is also presented at 8 am on Local Radio and 10 am for Local Radio in Western Australia. AM is not broadcast on Sundays as the Correspondents' Report program is broadcast at that time.
The programme is compiled every morning at 5 am for its early bulletin at 6.05 am. It is presented live four times a day - 6.05 am, 7.10 am and 8 am for the East Coast of Australia and 10 am AEST for broadcast in Western Australia (where local standard time is 8 am).
The 6.05 am edition, known as Early Edition AM, is a 10-minute program broadcast on Local Radio networks after the 6 am news. Like the Radio National edition of AM, the early edition features fewer stories than the complete edition at 8 am and features three reports at most.
The Local Radio edition of AM is broadcast during Local Radio's Breakfast in Sydney program, along with Triple J's Tom & Alex in the studio as a part of the youth network.
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