ABC makes Tim Latham new Media Watch producer

ABC TV has named Tim Latham as the new executive producer for its Monday night media monitoring show Media Watch, as former executive producer Lin Buckfield departs for “a break” in New York.

Latham, who has been Radio National Breakfast executive producer and with ABC Radio for 15 years, spent the last years on Breakfast with Fran Kelly and has also worked on shows such as Radio National’s Background Briefing.

Of his appointment, Latham said: “It has been a great eight years with Breakfast and I’m really proud of the show we have created. This is an opportunity to do something different and I am looking forward to working with Paul Barry and the Media Watch team and of course not getting up at 4am every day.

“I’m also looking forward to making the change from radio to television; 2014 is a critical year for the media as all mediums try to make sense of the changing landscape.”