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18-474: Subscribing stations are able to re-transmit individual programs or entire blocks of program time as needed. As NIRS is broadcast 24 hours a day, stations with limited resources who are unable to provide a full-time service can use NIRS to fill the gaps between local programming . For those radio stations that already broadcast 24 hours a day, NIRS gives them access to national coverage of Indigenous current affairs and Indigenous news, which some stations may not have

36-486: A television program made by a television station or independent television producer for broadcast only within the station's transmission area or television market . Local programmes can encompass the whole range of programme genres but will usually only cover subjects or people of particular interest to an audience within the station's coverage area. For example, a local sports programme will present results, interviews and coverage of games or matches, just like

54-520: A default schedule for distribution), the vast majority of broadcast stations do provide program listings. Misplaced Pages itself also uses this designation in its series of American network television schedule articles for non-network programming time. Many local television stations in the United Kingdom ceased broadcasting due to a lack of viability, but some stations are still being broadcast, including: Sydney Tonight Sydney Tonight

72-404: A locally produced segment. Sometimes locally made programmes that are not too specific to the transmission area, will be sold to other local stations for broadcast in their region. Historically there was a large percentage of local programming on television. Late in the 20th century this has significantly fallen. In many cases the only local programmes on a television station today will be

90-462: A network sports programme, but it would only feature teams and players from within the broadcaster's transmission area. In some cases a television network programme may include a local element as well. This is particularly the case in the United Kingdom and still happens today with Politics Show . The BBC regions will all opt-out at the same time from the main programme to present

108-450: A significant number of production centres which create and air their own local morning and/or afternoon talk shows, while Radio 2's and Ici Musique's local content is limited to local news and weather updates. The term is also generally accepted to refer to television programming that is not produced by a broadcast or other media source for national or international distribution ( broadcast syndication ). Usually programming of local interest

126-635: A significant volume of local programming, including newscasts, locally or regionally oriented talk shows, and variety entertainment programs such as Tiny Talent Time or Homegrown Cafe ; a few stations, such as CHCH-TV in Hamilton , Ontario and CJOH in Ottawa , also distributed some of their local programming more widely through television syndication , most notably CHCH's Hilarious House of Frightenstein and CJOH's You Can't Do That on Television , both of which were broadcast across both Canada and

144-475: Is based in Brisbane and provides a national news service consisting of 15 five-minute bulletins Monday to Friday. The news service focuses on Indigenous news and stories relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The newsroom is mainly staffed by Indigenous journalists. Local programming The terms local programme , local programming , local content or local television refers to

162-589: Is produced by either a Public, educational, and government access (PEG) television organization, cable TV operator or broadcast network affiliate stations that offer local radio news and television news . Additionally, the term is used in a more generic form in the United States, Canada , Mexico and other countries in the Western Hemisphere as a placeholder term within published national program guide listings in publications such as

180-468: The United States . With the cross-national consolidation of Canadian media ownership in the 1990s and 2000s, network-affiliated stations now rarely produce much more than their own local or regional newscasts, although some stations may continue to produce a small amount of additional local programming. Independent stations may produce more local programming, although such stations are now rare in

198-466: The local newscast . The above can also apply to radio . A national radio network may have local studios or affiliates who opt-out at various times to present local programs and content. In the late-1950s, many of the early Australian television series such as Melbourne Magazine (1957), Sydney Tonight (1956–1959), and TV Talent Scout (1957–1958) were broadcast in only a single city. In Canada, historically local television stations produced

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216-718: The Canadian media landscape. In radio, virtually all Canadian commercial radio stations are officially programmed locally, although many stations cut costs by contracting some dayparts out to voice-tracked hosts who are not actually located in the station's physical studio or even necessarily in the same city, using a home studio , and may even be performing their show from the United States. The CBC Radio One , CBC Radio 2 , Ici Radio-Canada Première and Ici Musique networks consist primarily of networked national programming, although all include some degree of local programming in certain time blocks. Radio One and Première stations have

234-468: The home and away season, NIRS broadcasts descriptions of at least three Australian Football League matches every weekend. Expert commentators in 2011 included Gilbert McAdam , Ronnie Burns , Chris Johnson, Indigenous Team of the Century umpire Glenn James , and Darryl White . National Indigenous Radio Service is distributed through VAST and livestreaming. The National Indigenous Radio Service

252-590: The morning line-up, Nan Musgrove of The Australian Women's Weekly criticised the use of the Sydney Tonight segments, saying that "I may be peculiar, but ladies in full warpaint and baretopped evening dresses at 7:30 a.m. wiggling their way through seductive songs are not my favorite breakfast entertainment" , though the reviewer had more positive feelings towards the other morning offerings, soap opera Autumn Affair and music series The Toppanos . The series had segment titled Ardath Hit Parade which

270-544: The post-2006 format TV Guide or USA Today which only carry the default schedules of national networks, where the "local programming" designation replaces detailed listings for a local station that would be impossible to print in a national publication. Outside of local newscasts and some rare non-news programming however, the term merely describes time periods under a local station's control, where syndicated content airs rather than true local programming. For equivalent electronic program guide listings for set-top boxes ,

288-767: The resources to provide themselves. The National Indigenous Radio Service receives the bulk of its funds from the Australian Government through the National Indigenous Australians Agency .The service can also broadcast limited advertising in the form of sponsorship. Along with its bed of purely Australian and Indigenous music is national programming covering topics such as health , education , Government department updates and issues relevant to Indigenous Australians . Other programming includes regional news, sporting events and coverage of live music and festivals. During

306-483: The term is used mainly with PEG stations and networks which do not have a schedule compiled by a cable operator as a default placeholder; other instances are with only broadcast stations who outright refuse or do not release their program listings due to lack of staff, though as advertisers usually demand a minimum schedule to place their ads on a television station (and most of these stations are associated with smaller national digital subchannel networks which do provide

324-591: Was an Australian television variety series which aired from December 1956 to early 1959 on Sydney station ATN-7 . Originally compered by Keith Walshe, it was later hosted by Roy Hampson and re-titled Tonight . The series featured a format including guests, interviews, audience participation, and music. Like In Melbourne Tonight , which came later, it was patterned on the groundbreaking U.S. series Tonight Starring Steve Allen . In October 1958, station ATN-7 experimented by using video-tape recordings of Sydney Tonight segments as part of their morning line-up. Reviewing

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