ABC Pacific shortwave exit

On Tuesday 31, the A-B-C pulled the plug on what it calls an out-dated service replacing it with online streaming and F-M radio.

Das Ende einer Ära Source: Supplied

The end of an era -- 80 years of A-B-C shortwave radio broadcasts into the Pacific -- is being criticised as a diplomatic misstep.

For more than 10-million people in the region, it has been a highly-valued service, especially during natural disasters and political upheavals.