Written by My father was a man of his generation, which meant when summer rolled around and the cricket season started, he insisted on muting Channel Nine’s coverage and blasting the ABC’s radio commentary instead. Ours was a complicated relationship but one thing for which I’ll be forever grateful was the way my father shared his love […]
Until a little over a fortnight ago, there was no inkling of who would replace David Anderson as managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Normally, speculation runs rife within an ABC-obsessed media world and inside the organisation with a laundry list of potential candidates, occasionally planted surreptitiously by would-be hopefuls. This time the board […]
Former Nine Entertainment chief executive Hugh Marks has been appointed as the new managing director of the ABC and has signalled the national broadcaster will need to “make choices” about its priorities to maintain the quality of its news and programs. The appointment of Mr Marks, an experienced commercial media executive, comes as the ABC […]
Funding for the ABC and SBS will be decided for five years at a time, rather than three, under new laws federal Labor says will help prevent “political interference” within the broadcasters. Communications Minister Michelle Rowland has also announced a lift in funding for the ABC worth more than $40 million a year from 2026-27. […]
ABC chair Kim Williams says investment is needed to fund the production of Australian stories, as he also calls for the ABC to be “aggressively, consciously ambitious” in its storytelling. In a wide-ranging conversation with Screen Producers Australia (SPA) CEO Matthew Deaner, which streamed on Facebook Live today, Williams said the formula for meeting Australia’s […]