WHAT'S wrong with calling on the ABC to be more efficient it it's operations. Nowhere in the budget did the government cut the dollars what was asked for a more prudent approach to allocating the dollars available and a trimming of the fat.
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Consider for one moment News 24, sure it's a 24 hour news service, the same news every hour on the hour for the entire day interspersed with replays of programs from previous days, at times the same program several times a week.
The ABC could easily cut cost by surrendering some of it's SBS licence frequencies as most of the dedicated viewers have their own dedicated links to their homeland news services via other digital resources that are beamed live into their homes via satellite.
In many areas of broadcasting the ABC caters to what can only be regarded as fringe dwellers with content that lateral thinkers shake their heads finding it difficult to get anything out of the program content . It's not all negativity, the ABC has made or sponsored some real gems and bought the world closer to those in the bush but on the whole their current content and repetitive nature of their broadcasts is certainly in need of a trim.
Join the real world ABC and tighten the belt like every other Australian has to shoulder the wheel, it's your turn.
Doug Sutton
Wauchope
