ABC radio boss Sue Howard quits

Tim Burrowes

December 19, 2008 3:52

The ABC is parting company with its long serving Director of Radio and Regional Content Sue Howard, it announced this afternoon. According to commentator Margaret Simons, Haward’s departure is tied up with a wholesale rethink of the ABC radio structure which will see specialist programs developed as multi media “brands”. She suggests that Howard opposed the moves.

In October it was revealed that some of Radio National’s best know programs including the Religion Report and the Media Report faced the axe.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.