A pity really, as under Kerry Packer’s ownership Nine sponsored the NYE fireworks and the Sydney Festival. There were Nine logos all over Sydney during January. Marks probably doesn’t see any value in sponsoring those kinds of events.
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Perhaps because there is little benefit to doing it these days
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The ABC don’t own the whole portfolio of properties that they occupy across the country - leasing definitely has its place though.
Selling property needs to be in-line with what the future of the broadcaster is likely to be - if television production in Brisbane beyond Newscaff is unlikely (as an example) - the need to maintain studios may not be a wise choice.
Co-Location with SBS shouldnt necessarily be ruled out either
All that said, they may not need to sell - rather better utilise what they have
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I’m sorry, but this is an absolute stupid report.
The ABC has already downsized or sold its existing HQs in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth.
They have just brought all operation together under one roof in Melbourne Sydney and Brisbane.
All three sites have been built as purpose built studios for television and radio.
What a joke.
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Does anyone know why the ABC is not showing tonight’s episode of Revelation? It’s the series on Catholic priests and abuse.
Instead they are relaying ABC News 24.
I bet there was a court ordered injunction.
They are waiting to show a media conference from the PM in 10-15 minutes live.
There was scrolling text saying it will air next week due to extended Coronavirus coverage.
Thank you for the answers. This is why I love MediaSpy
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ABC expands education schedule to support students at home during COVID-19 crisis
The ABC is launching an expanded schedule of free education content to support students, teachers and parents, with so many children forced to learn at home due to the coronavirus global pandemic.
To enhance its educational programming, ABC Education is working with state and territory education departments and other education providers to deliver additional curriculum-linked content to children of all ages.
ABC Managing Director David Anderson said the national broadcaster was ready to launch the extra resources, in line with its Charter requirement to broadcast programs of an educational nature. “With so many Australian children now studying at home or preparing to do so, the ABC is boosting its support for students, teachers and parents to help young Australians receive the education they need,” he said.
“Our expanded schedule will complement the many hours of education content already available on the ABC across multiple platforms and we will build on that programming as required. Australians trust and rely on the ABC and this is another way we can contribute to and support the community.”
From Tuesday 14 April – with students having started Term 2 or readying to do so, depending on their location – the ABC will extend its educational programming on ABC ME to support children and caregivers at home, from 10am to 3pm each weekday. The expanded schedule moves from blocks of primary school content in the mornings through to secondary school content in the afternoons, featuring programs such as Ecomaths, ScienceXplosion, Numberblocks and English on the Go .
The ABC will offer additional online support through its portal ABC Education, with access to more than 4000 free videos, interactive resources and games mapped to the Australian curriculum – across subjects such as English, maths, science, history, geography, media Literacy, financial literacy and the arts and technologies, including STEM. Sign up to the ABC Education weekly newsletter for engaging online resources, competitions, news and events to help teachers and parents.
Working in partnership with the states and territories, ABC Education will also create original teacher-led mini-lessons, which will be broadcast on the ABC Education portal and ABC ME, to support students learning at home. The NSW and Victorian education departments have provided initial financial assistance to help produce this content.
Behind The News is also ramping up its vital education offering to make sure parents and teachers have plenty of trusted, quality video content mapped to the Australian curriculum, including its daily and weekly programs Newsbreak and BTN Classroom .
BTN will expand its network of Rookie Reporters delivering news, views and opinions via mobile video, so that kids who are working remotely or in isolation will still have a voice in our news. Parents will also be able to access BTN’ s teaching resources and lesson plans in the “Teachers” section of the BTN website.
ABC iview’s enhanced collection of carefully curated education content features informative and engaging programs across multiple subject areas, including BTN, The Storybuilding Tool Kit, This Place, Citizen Code and Teenage Boss.
Pre-schoolers are also in safe hands with trusted content on ABC Kids, ABC Kids listen and the ABC Early Education website, which includes Reflective Journal blog posts for educators and shows and podcasts across the five curriculum areas of family, community and culture, sustainability and nature, creativity and self-expression, STEM and health and wellbeing.
Special collections of learning content and family activities are also available on the newly enhanced ABC Kids app and ABC Kids Community Facebook page, which engages and inspires ongoing conversations with families, carers and educators.
James Merlino, Victorian Minister for Education, said it was great to partner with the ABC to ensure kids keep learning. “Learning from home is going to be new and challenging for everyone involved; students, their families and carers and for our teachers – it’s fantastic to partner with the ABC in expanding its educational programming.”
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Great news by the ABC.
ABC provides for all Australians at work, at home and online
The ABC has outlined how it is keeping the nation informed, educated and entertained in response to COVID-19, with trusted content and services all Australians can turn to.
The ABC is providing a wide range of programs and services to keep Australians informed, educated and entertained now and into the future, including:
- Expanded educational programming for primary and secondary school students.
- Connecting communities with the latest local news, expert advice, official health information and talkback on the ABC’s Capital City and Regional Radio networks.
- Bringing audiences trusted news, insights and analysis on ABC NewsRadio, the ABC News Channel and our digital networks, including our rolling live blog and coronavirus website.
- New on-demand content on iview, including acclaimed drama Les Miserables, the latest series of Killing Eve and true crime series Murder 24/7 .
- Distinctive new Australian content, such as Mystery Road (series 2).
- Increased support for Australian artists, musicians and creatives.
- Insider tips on family-friendly games from ABC ME’s Good Game Spawn Point.
- Keeping Australians fit and healthy, including recipes on cooking with the essentials and tips on exercising in isolation.
- New weekend sports radio programs and more digital content across all codes.
In a time of rapid change, misinformation and confusion, the ABC remains the nation’s most trusted source of news and information. In particular:
- Daily editions each weekday of the ABC’s Coronacast podcast, breaking down the latest news and research about how the world is living through the pandemic.
- Live coverage of federal and state government announcements and in-depth looks at the impact of COVID-19 through key current affairs programs, including 30, Four Corners, Foreign Correspondent , Afternoon Briefing, Australian Story and Q+A, along with key radio current affairs programs such as AM, PM and RN Breakfast and RN Drive.
- Enhancing triple j’s Hack’s news and information for younger audiences.
- RMIT ABC Fact Check’s new CoronaCheck website and newsletter is exposing fake news and misinformation that is spreading as fast and far as the virus itself.
- ABC International is sharing ABC NEWS to audiences overseas with ABC Australia television in 40 territories across Asia and the Pacific, ABC Radio Australia across the Pacific and multiple digital touchpoints including ABC Australia iview.
- Download the ABC NEWS app for breaking news alerts and receive updates through the ABC NEWS Facebook Messenger bot.
The ABC is helping people cope with the changes to their daily lives and routines, with additional health and consumer advice and education resources. Initiatives include:
- The ABC Health newsletter has increased in frequency to three editions a week, bringing subscribers the latest information and advice from here and overseas.
- ABC Sport is keeping fans of all codes entertained with new weekend radio programs on ABC Grandstand DAB+ and the ABC listen app, including the return of Roy & HG every Saturday from midday AEST.
- Mindfully’s new Corona Calm podcast, in partnership with Smiling Mind, offers meditation and mindfulness exercises to stay calm amidst uncertainty. Or check out new bonus episodes of kids’ ethics podcast Short & Curly and Parental As Anything with Maggie Dent on helping children cope with the impact of COVID-19.
- New ABC Science video series in development will share health advice and life hacks for Australians on how to stay well and sane in isolation.
- For those unable to attend religious services over the Easter period, we will broadcast the Compass special “Easter in Australia” on 7 April and seek to show livestreams of religious services from here and overseas, including the Pope’s Easter Saturday Vigil Mass from the Vatican.
- Our teams of specialist content makers will give audiences plenty to watch, listen to and read over the months ahead, including ABC TV’s Compass and Catalyst and RN programs such as Conversations, All In The Mind, Awaye!, Earshot and Radio National Fictions.
- ABC Life is boosting its health and wellbeing content to help Australians navigate the daily impacts of COVID-19, with advice on looking after your mental and physical health while working from home and recipes for cooking with essentials.
With so many children now at home, the ABC is expanding its free education content and resources for key learning stages and year groups to assist students, teachers and parents, including:
- ABC ME will extend its daily dedicated educational programming from 10am to 3pm, from 14 April, moving from blocks of primary school content in the mornings through to secondary school content in the afternoons .
- The ABC will offer additional online support through its portal ABC Education, with access to more than 4000 free videos, interactive resources and games mapped to the Australian curriculum across multiple subjects.
- Working in partnership with state and territory education departments, ABC Education will also create teacher-led mini-lessons to be broadcast on the ABC Education portal and ABC ME, to support students learning at home.
- ABC iview’s curated collection of educational content for children features informative and engaging programs across multiple subject areas, including BTN, The Storybuilding Tool Kit, This Place, Citizen Code and Teenage Boss.
- BTN is also expanding its network of Rookie Reporters delivering news, views and opinions via mobile video, so that kids who are working remotely or in isolation will still have a voice in our news. Parents can access BTN’ s teaching resources and lesson plans in the “Teachers” section of the BTN website.
- Pre-schoolers are also in safe hands with trusted content on ABC Kids, ABC Kids listen and the ABC’s Early Education website .
- Special collections of learning content and family activities are available on the newly enhanced ABC Kids app and ABC Kids Community Facebook page.
The ABC is keeping Australians entertained, curious and connected to the world and each other, with more content that makes them laugh, think and imagine. Initiatives include:
- New on-demand content on iview to give audiences more of what they want, when they want it, including:
- Australian free-to-air premiere of the six-part adaptation of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece Les Miserables , starring Dominic West, David Oyelowo, Lily Collins and Olivia Colman.
- Australian premiere of five-part new true crime series Murder 24/7 , which follows police murder investigations in real time. The British series forms part of our true crime collection on iview, which also includes Exposed: The Case of Keli Lane, Barrenjoey Road and Who Killed Belinda Peisley.
- Binge viewing of the gripping new British crime drama The Capture.
- Australian premiere of the new series of Killing Eve fast-tracked from the US (available on iview from 13 April and premiering on ABC TV on Sunday 19 April at 9.30pm).
- New seasons of the ever-popular Death in Paradise and
- Boxsets of programs Australians know and love, including comedies Frayed, Black Comedy and State of the Union, dramas and documentaries Stateless, Total Control, The Australian Dream, Doctor Who (series 12), The Heights and You Can’t Ask That, and audience favourites such as Gardening Australia, Back Roads, Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell, Hard Quiz and Spicks and Specks specials.
- Distinctive new Australian content, including the second series of drama Mystery Road (from 19 April), series 4 of heart-warming comedy Rosehaven and new factual series Miram Margolyes: Almost Australian .
- New arts and cultural content to keep the creative juices flowing, such as daily singalongs on ABC Classic Breakfast .
Les Miserables
As the nation’s biggest backer of Australian talent, the ABC is boosting support for local artists and creatives by bringing more of their work to audiences. In particular:
- The ABC’s national music networks are already well above the industry’s Australian music quotas for radio (triple j plays 60% of Australian music). But we are looking to further increase the proportion of local music featured and played on-air across national and local and regional radio to assist Australian musicians.
- triple j, Double J and triple j Unearthed have also announced a special edition of Ausmusic T-shirt Day on 17 April to encourage listeners to buy and wear a new T-shirt from their favourite Australian artist.
- We are working with our partners across all platforms in the Arts to co-host virtual festivals and events, from book clubs to live streaming performances.
- ABC Music has launched the #covidcoverschallenge on social media to support Australian country music, by encouraging musicians to post videos of themselves performing songs by Australian and New Zealand country music artists.
- As concert halls go dark across Australia, ABC Classic is keeping the music going as Australia’s Concert Hall, working with Australian musicians to bring audiences concerts and livestreams and a list of online music events.
- ABC music networks are working with the Australian music industry on the Sound of Silence initiative, which is supporting local artists and music industry workers during the shutdown of live music performances.
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Together In Art Kids
Dr Norman Swan, the Art Gallery of New South Wales – and Australian kids – create Together In Art Kids
The Art Gallery of New South Wales and media partner the ABC are delighted to announce Together In Art Kids , an online project designed to inspire and support children isolated from their friends and community due to COVID-19.
Now live with award-winning Del Kathryn Barton as first participating artist, Together In Art Kids invites primary school-aged children from around the country to create works to a specific theme.
The project was the brainchild of ABC health expert Dr Norman Swan , who was inspired by kids who unprompted began sending him their artworks. Dr Swan, a longstanding member of the Gallery’s Contemporary Collection Benefactors group, launched the project in the Coronacast podcast.
“In a sense this idea came from the many kids who listen to Coronacast . The trigger was seeing a couple of amazing drawings they sent in spontaneously,” Dr Swan said. “The stories that children will tell through their art will be incredibly moving as well as funny and we at the ABC are proud to be partnering on this project.”
The idea was brought into being by the Art Gallery of NSW, which will display a curated selection of submissions in an online exhibition as part of its online social project Together In Art .
Each month one Australian artist will invite kids to create an artwork to a theme using materials available in their home. The resulting artworks can then be photographed and submitted by families to Together In Art Kids in two age categories, 5-8 years and 9-12 years.
Children’s artworks shared on Together In Art will be seen by audiences around the world and will capture a snapshot of this moment in time through their eyes. Some of the artworks will also be featured on ABC platforms.
Del Kathryn Barton announced the theme for the first month would be “Inner Worlds”.
“COVID-19 has changed the world in which we live – we all find ourselves more isolated in our physical spaces,” she said. “This is an incredible opportunity to connect more deeply to our bodies and venture into the inestimable potential of our inner worlds.”
Art Gallery of NSW deputy director and director of collections Maud Page said the initiative would provide a creative outlet for children during this period of uncertainty.
Cuppa with Kumi
ABC brings the big questions to its first Instagram Live show
Weekdays at 3.30pm, from Monday 20 April 2020.
Have isolation and the coronavirus pandemic left you feeling uneasy with plenty of questions? Don’t worry, you’re not alone! Compass host Kumi Taguchi will be going live on ABC TV’s Instagram account every weekday at 3.30pm, from Monday 20th April, to discuss the issues we’re all facing.
The COVID-19 crisis has brought the life we know to a massive halt and everyone is trying to adjust to this new world. There are big questions to answer:
What will our future look like? How will this affect our kids? Will our relationships survive? Will this change who we are? What are the good things to have come out of this? What’s happening elsewhere in the world? How can I have fun this weekend?
For more than 20 years, Compass has focused on social issues, ethical conundrums, faith and philosophy. Cuppa With Kumi takes Compass into a two-way conversation, in which audiences can ask and respond to questions about what the future might look like.
Kumi, along with her special guests, will be discussing a new topic each weekday. So, boil the kettle, grab your favourite mug, and enjoy a Cuppa with Kumi . Because social distancing may keep us apart physically, but we are virtually all in this together.
Michael Carrington, ABC Director of Entertainment & Specialist content, said: “ Cuppa with Kumi is a chance for audiences to connect in real-time with a presenter they know and trust. Broadcasting on Instagram TV means we can meet our audiences where they are and stay connected as we navigate these unsettling times together.”