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Since the ABC began in the 1930s, it more than 30% of the network's schedule has been a supporter of the arts in and include the generai arts program Austraiia and a key source of cultural Sunday Morning, speciaiist music contenl, for Australian audiences. For programs (The Deep End, The Planet, many in remote and regional areas, it Music Deli, The M~fsicShow, Singers of has been the primary or only source. Renown, Story of Pop, Liue on Stage, The Night Air, Sound Qiialify and The ABC Charter requires the Nocturne), the radio drama program Corporation to "ericourage the performing Airpiay, iiterature programs (Australia arts in Auslralia" (s.6(l)(c) of the ARC Talks Books, The Book Reading, Short Act) and to broadcast programs that Story, Book Taik, Books and Writer-s and "reflect the cultural diversity of the PoeticA), the Indigenous arts and cuiture Australian community" (s,6(l)(a)(i)). program Awaye!, documentaries and The Corporation ABC has consistently features (Kadio Ege and Sunday Nighl interpreted these responsibiiities as ) and profiles of artists extending to the arts in the broadest and performers (The Makers). sense and atways supported the arts more generally. In recent years, it has ABC Locai Radio is also committed to responded to the emergence of new art supporting the arts, with a particular Forms, such as digital media and changing emphasis on local arts issues, events audience expectations. and performers. Its coverage includes gallery exhibitions, theatre and cinema Arts on ABC Radio reviews, live performance by poets and musicians, and dedicated national and Radio is the primary broadcast medium arts programs such as Saturday Nighl by which the Corporation presents and Count!-g and Lights, Camera, Action! and supports musical performance and statewide programs such as 's composition. ABC Radio's three The Sunday Shoiu and the Northern music-based networks - , DIG Territory's The Louur-ed Lounge. and ABC Classic FM - span classicai and contemporary music. More than in 2001, ABC Radio used 40% of the music on Triple J and DIG is Commonwealth Government National Austraiian. Interest Initiative funding to estabiish a Regional Production Fund that commissions In 2004, Triple J is adopting a new innovative and originai radio programming approach to arts programming that produced by people living in regional integrates contemporary and youth arts Australia. The RPF has commissioned coverage into its daytime programming. almost 150 projects, approximately 40% of which were arts-reiated, including ABC Classic FM is also adopting a works in the areas of writing, music, different approach to new music and drama and poetry. wili now have it mixed with the general schedule. ABC Classic FM will feature Arts on ABC Television concert broadcasts - live, where possible - each weeknight at PM and a daily ABC Television is Australia's leading iate-evening program presented by television arts broadcaster, with Juiian Day which showcases new music programming that encompasses - inciudirig eiectronic, improvised and performance, documentary, review and other works - prominently featuring anaiysis. ABC Television News and Australian artists. The network has aiso Current Affairs also employs a dedicated appointed a New Music Curator to liaise arts correspondent. with the Austraiian composition community to find, record and schedule Australian The 2004 Teievision scheduie makes composition and new music from within arts and cultural content accessible to Australia and overseas. both general and speciaiist audiences. Arts programming will be divided Radio National offers a wide range of between evening slots and the three-hour, specialist arts and cultural programming, magazine-format omnibus Sunday reportage and analysis. These make up Afternoon.

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In 2004, Sunday Aflernoon has received a Supporting Cultural Festivals three-foid increase in its resources to enable arts stories to be sourced from more locations throughout ABC Radio networks provide extensive coverage of Australia and to allow greater engagement with major arts and cultural festivals around the country. locai contemporary arts. The show features "In ABC Classic FM and Radio Nationai cover each of Conversation" segments and many more Locaiiy the major capital city arts festivals, as weii as a made stories over the course of the year. Sunday number of smaller regional festivals. Afterrioor~ wiii aiso present seasons of themed programming and will continue to feature its regular Local Radio activeiy supports arts festivals and segment Words. events across Australia, including the Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth Festivals, art exhibitions Arts talks program CI-iticai Mass is broadcast each and regional festivals such as ABC Capricornia's Sunday night and repeated foliowing Words each Arts in the Park, the Tarnworth Country Music Sunday afternoon. It features guests examining Festivals and the Port Fairy Folk Festival. Triple J contemporary exhibitions, theatre, literature, dance and Dig cover a wide range of music iesiivais and film. targeted to their respective audiences.

A number of new prime time arts and cuiturai programs The ABC Television Sunday Afternoon program have also been scheduled for 2004-05. Austraiians showcased the best of the 2004 Adelaide Festival of wili be invited to nominate their favourite books, in the Arts. a cross media initiative that wiil explore, encourage and celebrate literature and reading as an activity; Community Consultation and a new design series. The New Inventors wiil operate in the junction where art meets science The Corporation connects with arts and cultural communities in a number of ways, including direct ABC Teievision will aiso screen a number of new reiationships between program-makers and arts Austraiian arts documentaries from some of practitioners, and through its Arts Development Australia's ieading documentary makers. Advisory Group.

Arts on ABC Online The Arts Development Advisory Group is made up of representatives from across the Austraiian arts Through its arts and cuiture gateway, The Space, sector and senior ABC staff involved in the deveiopment ABC Online provides access to a wealth of online and production of arts programming. Its role is to arts content, including material on film, music, "inform, advise and guide its arts programming and books, performance, digitai arts, visuai arts, design, content, and provide a conduit for the views of the regional arts and arts content for children, as well community." as discussion iorums and arts news. This includes original oniine content and cross-media content produced with Radio and TV programs.

The ABC's children's arts site Spialt currently contains over nine hundred pages of content and continues to grow.

ABC New Media and Digital Services is an active coilaboraior with the local independent production sector, through projects such as Game On, Four Minute Wonders, the AFC-ABC Broadband Production Initiative and a number of cross-media drama projects. The ABC was recently very successful at the 2004 AiMlA awards. Severai arts and cuiturai projects were finaiists or award winners; many of these were co-productions with the independent sector.

Arts and ABC Enterprises

The Enterprises Division actively participates In the deveiopment of Australia's cultural industries through the creation and distribution of consumer products related to the ABC's broadcasting and oniine output, and the performances of the State-based symphony orchestras.

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