Funding Public Broadcasters To Do What?
From Creative Economy Online
Crunch day is arriving for the ABC and SBS. During the next three months the public broadcasters will be compiling and lodging their triennial funding submissions with Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy writes Margaret Simons.
What should a charter for a publicly funded new media "space" require? Both ABC managing director Mark Scott and the 2020 summiteers talked about the organisation being the nation's "town square" in which Australians can meet to discuss their concerns.
Asked about embracing amateur content available on the web, and making the archive available for "mash ups." ABC head of television Kim Dalton responded that while all that had its place, he never wanted to see a situation in which the Chris Lilleys of the world were replaced by patchy amateur content. Are divisions like professional and amateur now relevant to patchy versus slick?
Spicks and Specks might be fun, but is a music game show "charter"? East of Everything might be Australian drama, but isn't it just Seachange revisited? Doesn't the charter say the ABC has to be innovative?
What do you think?
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Margaret Simons's latest book, The Content Makers: Understanding the Media in Australia, is published by Penguin.
Crunch day is arriving for the ABC and SBS. During the next three months the public broadcasters will be compiling and lodging their triennial funding submissions with Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy writes Margaret Simons.
What should a charter for a publicly funded new media "space" require? Both ABC managing director Mark Scott and the 2020 summiteers talked about the organisation being the nation's "town square" in which Australians can meet to discuss their concerns.
Asked about embracing amateur content available on the web, and making the archive available for "mash ups." ABC head of television Kim Dalton responded that while all that had its place, he never wanted to see a situation in which the Chris Lilleys of the world were replaced by patchy amateur content. Are divisions like professional and amateur now relevant to patchy versus slick?
Spicks and Specks might be fun, but is a music game show "charter"? East of Everything might be Australian drama, but isn't it just Seachange revisited? Doesn't the charter say the ABC has to be innovative?
What do you think?
Read the full article
Margaret Simons's latest book, The Content Makers: Understanding the Media in Australia, is published by Penguin.
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