So basically what the ABC is saying here is that you need two women to do the job of one man?
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Thereâs already been a âhit pieceâ in last Saturdayâs Herald Sun about it
They canât do any worse than Tom Ballard. Apparently all you need for a show is to just read something unfunny, YELL randomly throughOUT it and pepper it with unneceSSARY F BOMBS.
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didnât the usual suspects get in a lather over it last year that certain male presenters got the day off in favour of female presenters?
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Jon Faine said on air today heâd be âworking behind the scenesâ
Leon Compton also said on Tassie Mornings yesterday heâd be having a day off today, I canât remember who he said was on, it wasnât the usual one but still a regular. Maybe Louise Saunders.
At the culmination of this period â 1998-99 â the ABC broadcast 157 hours of locally made drama. Last financial year, the figure for new fiction was a grim 70 hours.
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ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie is disappointed with the $84 million funding cut in this yearâs Federal Budget. She has called for an all-staff meeting tomorrow.
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SBS gets more but ABC gets a freeze.
What exactly is the government trying to say here?
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That the ABC should play more Donald Trump docosâŚThe SBS has an ethnic focus, the ABC has more of a âProfessional, Teacherâ focus. The latter should be the one getting more funding.
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IMO now that the SBS is allowed to run adverts, the govt should be (with appropriate advanced notice) cutting back there advertising restriction along with there funding each year. The SBS needs to learn how to fund itself. After all these years if it canât, the question of its need to exist at all becomes more relevant .
Again IMO the govt should only be funding one national broadcaster.
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The obvious hamfisted attempts at âbalanceâ provided by the ABC across a variety of its news and current affairs clearly arenât good enough for the federal government.
Although in saying that I canât see labor rolling these cuts backâŚ
I could see them rolling back some of the cuts as way to have another dig at the Coalition about this:
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Thatâs what they tried to do. The relevant legislation didnât pass parliament, hence the (seemingly random) funding increase. Itâs certainly not being made out of the goodness of their hearts
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They may as well just merge the two now. Have one umbrella organisation and 3 networks under that - ABC, SBS and NITV. Each with their own independent programmers and board.
I would not be at all surprised if thatâs where it all heads, in a few years.
SBS getting more
Statement from ABC Director Regional and Local Michael Mason on the funding cuts (via Radioinfo)
Following the Managing Directorâs message regarding more cuts to the ABCâs funding, announced in last nightâs Budget, I wanted to add my comments.
Like Michelle, I am extremely disappointed in the Governmentâs decision to freeze the corporationâs annual funding indexation. And I also share the MDâs concern. This move represents a loss of $84 million in funding over three years starting in the next Financial Year in July 2019.
This comes at a time when the ABC is preparing its submission for its next Triennial funding period, which will also start in July 2019. This means our next funding bid takes on even more importance and significance.
We have 12 months to try and reverse that decision and position the organisation as strongly as possible as Australiaâs most trusted media organisation and one that is able to meet all its charter obligations.
In Regional & Local we have consistently delivered high quality programming against a falling trend in funding that the ABC has had to work with over the past five years.
I know that everyone, from our stakeholders in Canberra, to the ABC Executive Leadership Group, to our viewers, listeners and on-line audiences, have all been hugely impressed with the work you have done. Our regional and local content is at the heart of what the ABC does and that wonât change.
Once again, we find ourselves in the situation of defending the importance and relevance of our work in order to safeguard its future. I have every confidence that, given the talent and quality in our team, we will meet the challenge, but to do that effectively, we must do it as one.
I will be talking to you more in coming weeks about what is required from R&L to support the ABCâs opposition to this decision and how best we can contribute to the 2019 Triennial Funding bid.
This is due to the wild weather thatâs currently happening in Hobart.
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Yep, pretty much all TV bar SC7 is stuffed. JJJ is running open carrier; Classic is on air but running quiet modulation. Commercial radio is unaffected. Nine seems to be running from a backup site at much reduced power; reception is there but unwatchable in Tranmere.
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