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StarStuff is a weekly half hour space and science program that airs on Australia's Government operated ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). It is hosted by Stuart Gary who has researched and produced the show since 1998. ==History== After commencing his career as a radio announcer and journalist in commercial radio, Stuart Gary joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as a radio news journalist in August 1989. In 1994 Gary was asked by Dr Ian Wolfe to help set up a new radio network for the ABC called PNN which was to provide a continuous news service. After developing station formats and helping to set up the studios, Gary anchored the evening program on the network (which by now had become known as NewsRadio) for 16 years. When not on air Gary produced feature stories on a variety of issues for NewsRadio. Features on scientific topics proved to be especially popular with listeners, and eventually NewsRadio Manager Ian Wolfe appointed Gary as NewsRadio Science Editor and commissioned him to provide a specific weekly hour long science news program. Gary named the show StarStuff, which was a play on Carl Sagan's famous quote "We are all made of star dust" StarStuff was designed as an hour long science news bulletin wrapping up all the past week's developments and advances in science and technology. StarStuff's strict news bulletin format made it unique in Australian science broadcasting. The show was designed as a one person operation with the presenter Stuart Gary, also sourcing, writing and editing the program on top of his regular evening show, five nights a week. StarStuff's material was sourced from ABC news and current affairs reports, syndicated wires copy, and scientific peer reviewed journals. The program is written and compiled using iNews. All audio editing is undertaken in Netia and Cool Edit Pro. On line platform material is produced in site producer. The program was broadcast on NewsRadio every Sunday night between 1998 and 2010, with a replay the following Saturday evening. Neilsen survey ratings show StarStuff consistently achieved around 9 percent nationally in the five city metro area market, compared to NewsRadio's average market share of just over 2.5 percent. StarStuff's success continued when Mark Collier took over form Ian Wolfe as station manager. However Collier's decision to leave the ABC in 2010, resulted in the new ABC network manager Margaret Cassidy and NewsRadio station manager Helen Thomas, moving NewsRadio in a different direction with the science genre dropped in favour of strong sports programming. As part of this change StarStuff was axed, despite it being NewsRadio's highest rating program at the time with 9 percent National market share. Ironically the decision to axe StarStuff, which always had a strong astronomy and space sciences following, happened in what was the International year of Astronomy. StarStuff's funding was redirected to a new sport program called Weekend Half Time. Weekend Half Time proved to be unsuccessful, however by then StarStuff had found a new home as a podcast published by ABC Science on Line. StarStuff currently scores around a million downloads. Either live or featured packages of the show are broadcast weekly on numerous ABC local radio stations. The complete StarStuff program is also broadcast in the United States on Science 360 Radio. StarStuff has its own twitter account @abcstarstuff, and its own blog starstuffblog.tumblr.com On July 1, 2015 ABC Science on Line was incorporated into the ABC's Radio National network (RN). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「StarStuff is a weekly half hour space and science program that airs on Australia's Government operated ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). It is hosted by Stuart Gary who has researched and produced the show since 1998.==History==After commencing his career as a radio announcer and journalist in commercial radio, Stuart Gary joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as a radio news journalist in August 1989. In 1994 Gary was asked by Dr Ian Wolfe to help set up a new radio network for the ABC called PNN which was to provide a continuous news service.After developing station formats and helping to set up the studios, Gary anchored the evening program on the network (which by now had become known as NewsRadio) for 16 years.When not on air Gary produced feature stories on a variety of issues for NewsRadio.Features on scientific topics proved to be especially popular with listeners, and eventually NewsRadio Manager Ian Wolfe appointed Gary as NewsRadio Science Editor and commissioned him to provide a specific weekly hour long science news program. Gary named the show StarStuff, which was a play on Carl Sagan's famous quote "We are all made of star dust" StarStuff was designed as an hour long science news bulletin wrapping up all the past week's developments and advances in science and technology.StarStuff's strict news bulletin format made it unique in Australian science broadcasting.The show was designed as a one person operation with the presenter Stuart Gary, also sourcing, writing and editing the program on top of his regular evening show, five nights a week.StarStuff's material was sourced from ABC news and current affairs reports, syndicated wires copy, and scientific peer reviewed journals. The program is written and compiled using iNews. All audio editing is undertaken in Netia and Cool Edit Pro. On line platform material is produced in site producer.The program was broadcast on NewsRadio every Sunday night between 1998 and 2010, with a replay the following Saturday evening.Neilsen survey ratings show StarStuff consistently achieved around 9 percent nationally in the five city metro area market, compared to NewsRadio's average market share of just over 2.5 percent. StarStuff's success continued when Mark Collier took over form Ian Wolfe as station manager. However Collier's decision to leave the ABC in 2010, resulted in the new ABC network manager Margaret Cassidy and NewsRadio station manager Helen Thomas, moving NewsRadio in a different direction with the science genre dropped in favour of strong sports programming.As part of this change StarStuff was axed, despite it being NewsRadio's highest rating program at the time with 9 percent National market share.Ironically the decision to axe StarStuff, which always had a strong astronomy and space sciences following, happened in what was the International year of Astronomy. StarStuff's funding was redirected to a new sport program called Weekend Half Time.Weekend Half Time proved to be unsuccessful, however by then StarStuff had found a new home as a podcast published by ABC Science on Line.StarStuff currently scores around a million downloads.Either live or featured packages of the show are broadcast weekly on numerous ABC local radio stations. The complete StarStuff program is also broadcast in the United States on Science 360 Radio.StarStuff has its own twitter account @abcstarstuff, and its own blog starstuffblog.tumblr.comOn July 1, 2015 ABC Science on Line was incorporated into the ABC's Radio National network (RN).」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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