ABC axes Lateline and The Link
The ABC is set to announce it will be axing its current affairs show Lateline along with its current affairs program The Link.
Lateline host Emma Alberici will be appointed as economics correspondent, while Stan Grant will host a new discussion program on ABC News along with becoming an international reporter covering Asia.
Alberici joined the program back in 2012 after a promotion from her previous role as Europe correspondent.
Not a good day for them, also after radio ratings
Lateline was an excellent and thought-provoking program when hosted by Red Kezza, but since the ABC News “fixers” re-invented it as a vehicle for the talentless Tony Jones, it’s been on a downhill slide. Time for something new.
I started watching Stan Grant’s ‘The Link’ a few months ago and thought his ‘man-in-the-street’ interviews were refreshingly good.
It is way more watchable and informative than anything you would get from a politician, and far more intelligent than any morning TV shows, talkback radio or Murdoch press.
I don’t think the ABC really appreciated what they were on to as it only launched in March. I suspect the certain politicians weren’t happy that money from the public purse was being spent on giving the public a voice.
Wonder why they chopped the link. Surely it didn’t cost much for Stan Grant to walk around with a camera crew and interview normal people in the street. I thought it was pretty good.