Comments on: ABC digital: 12 hours of kids TV http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/10/abc-digital-12-hours-of-kids-tv/ now with extra source Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:24:29 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Dave http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/10/abc-digital-12-hours-of-kids-tv/#comment-13419 Dave Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-13419 In order to fill up the airtime on this ABC Kids channel, perhaps the ABC could bring back some favourites from yesteryear. If Facebook is anything to go by, this would be extremely popular. In order to fill up the airtime on this ABC Kids channel, perhaps the ABC could bring back some favourites from yesteryear. If Facebook is anything to go by, this would be extremely popular.

]]> By: David Howe http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/10/abc-digital-12-hours-of-kids-tv/#comment-13420 David Howe Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-13420 Mark Scott already intends redundancies in ABC production staff. In case Bernard missed the question from Mark Kenny, Mr Scott did in fact own up to the fact that staff will be shown the door. Nor did he actually commit to increasing journalist numbers and as other have noted there is a culture within ABC to outsource as much production capacity as possible, under the guise of better value for money. But Bernard seems closer to the truth in his analysis that there is very little in Mr Scott's address that hasn't been said before.<br /><br />How Mr Scott intends to regionalise the ABC is worth asking given that the organisation is immensely Sydney-centric administratively and politically, and tending to become more so. Mark Scott already intends redundancies in ABC production staff. In case Bernard missed the question from Mark Kenny, Mr Scott did in fact own up to the fact that staff will be shown the door. Nor did he actually commit to increasing journalist numbers and as other have noted there is a culture within ABC to outsource as much production capacity as possible, under the guise of better value for money. But Bernard seems closer to the truth in his analysis that there is very little in Mr Scott’s address that hasn’t been said before.

How Mr Scott intends to regionalise the ABC is worth asking given that the organisation is immensely Sydney-centric administratively and politically, and tending to become more so.

]]> By: David Havyatt http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/10/abc-digital-12-hours-of-kids-tv/#comment-13421 David Havyatt Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-13421 Why do we imagine there is a need for a kids channel on TV. In fact the debate over the advertising of junk food in C time on commercial TV would be better solved by abolishing C time. Left to their own devices the networks would program to the seniors at that time so it wouldn't be programming that harmed kids. But without programming aimed at kids then both kids and their parents might get the idea that active play after school is better than sedantry TV watching - and is a fr more effective step in battling obesity. Why do we imagine there is a need for a kids channel on TV. In fact the debate over the advertising of junk food in C time on commercial TV would be better solved by abolishing C time. Left to their own devices the networks would program to the seniors at that time so it wouldn’t be programming that harmed kids. But without programming aimed at kids then both kids and their parents might get the idea that active play after school is better than sedantry TV watching - and is a fr more effective step in battling obesity.

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