Australians love and trust the invaluable ABC, chairman tells screen producers

November 15, 2017 10:53

The ABC’s free services are loved, trusted and essential to Australia’s national identity as the media industry evolves in changing environment, the broadcaster’s Chairman Justin Milne told the Screen Producers Associations’ Screen Forever conference in Melbourne this morning.

Milne’s comments were made during the 2017 Hector Crawford Oration following the broadcaster’s restructure announcement yesterday, which will see the organisation move away from separating its radio, television and digital activities based on genres.

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Paul Wallbank

Paul Wallbank was news editor at Mumbrella between June 2017 and June 2019. Previously he's covered business and technology issues for outlets ranging from The Australian and Sydney Morning Herald to the ABC and Business Spectator.

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1 COMMENTS

ex ABC 15 Nov 17

Funny how history keeps being re-written by journalists who can’t be bothered to do any research. The Australian’s headline today was “ABC to disband TV, radio divisions in place since 1950s” – except that the TV and radio divisions didn’t actually exist in the 1950s. In 1970, when I joined the ABC, I worked across both radio and television. It was only later that the two were completely separated.

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