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FRI 002 Newsletter Friends of the ABC (NSW) Inc. quarterly newsletter August-September 2008 Vol 16, No.7 update friends of the abc Travails with my Aunty David Salter (keynote speaker at FABC State Conference) satisfy the latest PC obsession or to poach a few rating points from the commercial networks. t is with no pride “good old days” nostalgia. I’ve been in, I whatsoever that I or around, the Commission or Content is what the ABC has always claim the individual Corporation for more than half its 76 done best. It has been at its strongest record for total years and can assure you that many of when it concentrates on the primary number of those ‘old’ days were deplorable. Aunty job of making and broadcasting resignations and/or endured ultra-conservative programs for its established outlets. sackings from the management and timorous boards; Everything else – the doomed Pay TV ABC. Since 1967 I’ve had to clean my ultra-cautious program heads; ultra- venture, Australia Television, its desk out six times (and that’s not Anglophile cultural attitudes; many recurring multi-channel ambitions, counting all those silly relocations ultra-wasteful, negative or just plain occasional secret plots to engulf SBS, caused by the Corporation’s lazy permanent staff. even the highly successful Internet unrelenting mania for ‘structural presence – all of these are potentially Dig out the tapes of ABC radio’s so- review’). So much for civil service job dangerous distractions. called Golden Era in the early 1950s security. and you’d be aghast at the smug Dangerous, because they inevitably Why then do I remain such an ABC mediocrity they broadcast. The involve seeking additional funding loyalist and Defender of the Public prevailing value-systems came directly from governments quick to impose Broadcasting Faith? Because the from the prefect’s rooms of second-rate conditions on that extra cash. alternatives are too horrible to private boys’ schools. Literature was Distracting, because the diversion of people and resources into these contemplate. anything published by Angus & adventurist excursions always weakens Somehow, in the peculiar Robertson’s. broadcasting landscape of Australia, the Yet despite all this tenured self- (Continued on Page 3) ABC has managed to maintain its indulgence, the ABC’s most valued asset genuinely independent national voice. – it’s core notion of independence – was Somehow, despite the best efforts of defended with vigour. sour politicians and incompetent Charles Moses rightly treated inside managers, it has found the courage to politicians with disdain and usually The President’s Report 2 provide a platform for discomfiting ignored their attempts at pressure. ideas and disconcerting tastes. The Electronic Generation Gap 4 Richard Boyer understood that Branch News 5 At its best, the ABC is the gristle protecting the editorial integrity of the amongst all the pre-masticated pap that ABC’s output was the Board’s primary A Conversation with Henri Szeps 8 passes for ‘content’ in this country’s function. News is good for ABC 10 electronic media. After a few years tied to radio’s apron Summer Heights High Success Story 10 But let’s not waste time celebrating strings, the new and uniquely powerful Logie Awards 11 that achievement. The more mass medium of television was allowed Map of the future for Australia and constructive approach is to pause and to find its own feet. By the early 1970s the ABC 11 consider the positive lessons of history: Channel 2 was setting the local what can we extract from the ABC’s information and entertainment agendas The Gruen Transfer. How it all ads up 12 past to help us secure and enhance its for the nation. The ABC made programs Letter from Senator Conroy 13 future? because producers felt there was an New Teeth for Aunty - Reinvigorating This should not be an exercise in obligation – or need – to do so, not to the National Broadcaster. Part 1 14 Update Publication Information A word from the Update is published four times a year by NSW President Friends of the ABC (NSW) Inc. (FABC), PO Box 1391 NORTH SYDNEY 2059. Printpost approved PP245059/00002 t is now over six months since the 2008 STATE CONFERENCE of To become a member phone I election of the Rudd Labor FRIENDS of the ABC. (02) 9990 0600 or email to government, and many are asking [email protected] High on the agenda of this year’s what the change of government has or access our website NSW FABC State Conference, to be www.fabcnsw.org.au. meant for the ABC. Disappointment held in Wollongong on 9th and 10th Extracts from newspapers and other has been expressed that there were August, will be discussion and a publications appearing in Update do not not immediate changes to the sharing of ideas and strategies to necessarily reflect the views of the board, reinstatement of the staff- members of FABC. convince the government and local elected director and increases in Update is distributed to all members of members of the absolute necessity to FABC, as part of the membership fee. funding. A letter from Senator increase funding to the ABC in the Update is also supplied to journalists, Conroy, Minister for Broadband, 2009 budget in order that the ABC politicians and libraries across Australia. 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Anyone seeking basic information about will address the conference on “The writing to persons of influence might find it There was no increase in funding National Broadcaster in the Digital helpful to go to the FABC NSW website www.fabc.org.au where there are some to the ABC in the 2008 budget, but it Future.” Australia will soon be living menu items under "Be Active" leading to had been made clear by the Prime in a fully digital media age – the pages of information: Who can I write to? Minister that priority for funding in range of media choices for audiences What can I say? this budget would be given to pre- will be abundant and the media election promises, and there were experience itself is profoundly FABC (NSW) Executive Committee changing. How will the ABC retain its Office Bearers none relating to the ABC. On the other hand, there were no cuts to relevance in such a world? Mark President - Mal Hewitt Scott will talk about the ABC’s Phone: 9637 2900 ABC funding, as were suffered by Email: [email protected] most other government-funded obligation as a public institution to instrumentalities. The critical budget reach more Australians, in more ways, Secretary & Treasurer - James Buchanan for the ABC will be the triennium more often. Phone: 9371 5621 commencing in 2009. Friends of the He will discuss the Corporation’s Email: [email protected] ABC will most certainly be holding plans for its increasingly fragmented Membership Secretary - Angela the government to its commitment audience whose expectations have Williamson to “adequate funding on a triennial been shaped by traditional media, Phone: 9416 4463 basis.” The Prime Minister has also and how the Corporation is Email: [email protected] made it clear that changes to the realigning itself for future ABC Update Editor - Mal Hewitt ABC will follow due and proper audiences – the next generation of PO Box 1391 N. Sydney NSW 2059 process, and all current board Australians who, through ease and Email: [email protected] members will serve out their full familiarity with online and mobile term, no matter how inappropriate digital media, have very different Membership Line: 9990 0600 their appointment by the Howard expectations and make very different government may have been. demands on their media. Page 2 REPORTED CLOSURE OR SALE current ABC programming exudes a OF ABC SHOPS Travails with bland, respectable sameness and I am assured by the ABC that there timidity. It’s pitched at the middle of are no plans either to close or the sell my Aunty the statistical bell curve – the area ABC Shops.
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