If this month's column appears to be more eclectic and opinionated than usual, it's only because it is.
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The broad result is that RNZI transmissions are reduced by 12 hours per week, with closedown now at 1015. Therefore, RNZI programming will consist solely of relays of the domestic service, National Radio , between 2230 and 1015 daily. Coming little more than a year after the Australian government's crippling of Radio Australia through budget reductions and closure of the Darwin transmitting site, the international broadcasting picture in the South Pacific is bleak indeed. The slow, but steady strangulation of international public service broadcasting continues apace. Gene starts by offering his views on Hello from Tokyo and Brussels Calling .