The nation’s public broadcasters are in a bit of a holding pattern at the moment, waiting to hear whether their triennial funding submissions will find favour in the Budget.
There has been plenty of cause for pessimism in the last few months. Funding public broadcasters isn’t normally seen as a way of keeping blue collar workers [...]
February 24, 2009 – 1:41 pm
According to what Minister for Communications Senator Stephen Conroy told Senate Estimates yesterday, an announcement is imminent on the new appointees to the ABC and SBS Boards. Not before time.
It is surprising Conroy didn’t get more of a grilling about this. Like most things connected with his portfolio, it has taken forever.
So who has their [...]
February 2, 2009 – 2:10 pm
As those who read the weekend Australian or Matthew Ricketson’s blog will know by now, the Boston Consulting Group at the behest of the ABC has done a report recommending that the ABC and SBS become one organisation, merging all functions other than television programming, news and radio.
In a nice piece of management-consultant euphemism, the [...]
January 27, 2009 – 6:52 pm
My long article on threats and opportunities for the ABC and SBS, resulting from an Australia Day reading of submissions to the Government’s review of public broadcasting has been published at Inside Story.
January 27, 2009 – 9:00 am
Some go to the beach. Some have barbecues. Lucky them.
I spent Australia Day reading through some of the more than 2400 submissions to the Government’s review of public broadcasting. I could dress this up as patriotism, I suppose. No. It’s just sad.
Anyway, the result is a short news story for Crikey later today, plus a [...]
January 23, 2009 – 4:30 pm
One of the arguments one hears from within the ABC against the outsourcing of production is that it leads to Auntie spending its dollars on programs which, after a few months, end up on pay television.
A different view emerges from a submissions from the pay television sector to the Government review of public broadcasting. They [...]
January 23, 2009 – 9:20 am
More than 2400 submissions were made to the Government’s review of public broadcasting. They have just been published on the web.
I haven’t had a chance to look at them yet, and today is a busy day. Crowd sourcing welcome – if anyone wants to point me to something that should be looked at, my e-mail [...]
December 19, 2008 – 4:16 pm
The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (the journo’s union) has published its submission to the public broadcasting review.
I haven’t had a chance to read it yet. I am told that in all around 2400 submissions have been received.
