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Originally called the '' Parliamentary And News Network '' (PNN), the national network is chartered to broadcast live the proceedings of Parliament , either the House of Representatives or the Senate, as specified by the standing orders. Also broadcast, at the end of each day's sitting, is a recording of Question Time for the chamber that was not broadcast live that day. Parliamentary broadcasting was commenced by Ben Chifley 's government in the late 1940s . The PNN/ABC NewsRadio service was introduced in August , 1994 to utilise the Parliamentary broadcasting frequencies - which were not being used when Parliament was not in session. When parliament is not sitting, NewsRadio has a 24-hour news format, including extensive finance, science and IT reports, as well as extended reports from the ABC's local and international news sources. NewsRadio also rebroadcasts international programming from the BBC , DW-Radio , Radio Netherlands and '' All Things Considered '' from NPR . ABC NewsRadio also broadcasts Australian Football League matches on weekends in New South Wales and Queensland , where the National Rugby League is the more popular football competition and thus is broadcast on ABC Local Radio services in those two states. ABC NewsRadio Callsign s for stations on the AM radio band are always ''xPB'', where ''x'' is the number denoting the particular State Or Territory and ''PB'' stands for ''Parliamentary Broadcasting''. ABC NewsRadio stations on the FM radio band use callsigns of the format ''xPNN''. From September 2001 , Live Audio Streaming of the 24-hour news format was extended so that when Parliament is in session, listeners who have Internet access may still receive the NewsRadio service even when the NewsRadio network is broadcasting Parliamentary proceedings over the air. In 2005 it was announced that up to seventy new NewsRadio stations would be rolled out across rural and regional areas of Australia. This roll out is scheduled to commence in 2006 and is expected to take three years. This expansion of ABC NewsRadio services will raise the percentage of the Australian population who can receive the NewsRadio signal from 78% to an expected 95%. FREQUENCIES
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