in a week where a batch of redundancies were announced, management proves that it’s pulling it weight with a bit of ‘value’ adding, writes an ABC insider.
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SBS’s Red Bee deal fails … Last night’s TV Ratings.
ABC launch goes for bloke
One thing to emerge from last night’s launch of the ABC’s 2008 schedule is that it’s now a very male network, writes Glenn Dyer.
No new logo for the ABC, but rebranding on the cards
This morning the ABC’s head of television, Kim Dalton, told Crikey that The Australian was wrong to suggest that the ABC would be dripping the famous squiggle (Dalton calls it the worm) from its television logos, writes Margaret Simons.
MacCormack: Howard struggles as Rudd stays on message
Ouch. You know Kevin Rudd must have flogged John Howard last night when even The Australian scored it a narrow victory to the Labor leader, writes David MacCormack.
SBS: a Brown study of sad decline
You have to marvel at the ability of Shaun Brown to attempt to hoodwink the press in his address at the National Press Club this week and his advertorials in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Margaret Pomeranz: There has been a cultural genocide at SBS
The recent acrimonious departure of Mary Kostakidis is the last in the long line of defections and ejections from SBS under the current management. There has been a cultural genocide at the place, writes Margaret Pomeranz.
SBS: just like the mardi gras parade during its rough patch
SBS is a small pond with some giant puffer fish. Working alongside staff who live and breathe the charter are those who have been promoted beyond their experience. Which has many worried, says Freckles Dunderkleinen.
No to ABC ads: 8c a day is enough
I welcome ABC managing director Mark Scott’s public declaration that the ABC will not be taking advertisements on ABC websites, says Quentin Dempster.
Aunty would sell its grandmother to appease the Right
It’s just as well we humans have nothing to do with global warming because the amount of carbon the ABC is emitting to promote this apologia to right-wing conspiracy-thinking would thaw the Arctic tundra.
