DOCUMENTS REVEAL THAT THE AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING COMMISSION NEVER COVETED SBS TV
January 1st 2008 05:23
Australia’s public broadcaster, the ABC has long been accused of wanting to takeover SBS TV, but cabinet documents released on New Year’s Day reveal that it turned down the Fraser government's invitation 30 years ago to make the rival public broadcaster its own.
The Australian reported that the documents show the ABC told the government that the money and staff on offer to assume control of the radio stations that were to form the core of the new ethnic broadcasting service were inadequate.
"The commission would not wish to have the responsibility for operating 2EA and 3EA on the present basis and, indeed, sees no particular advantage in the government transferring responsibility to the ABC unless the proposed changes can be made," the then ABC chairman, John Norgard, told telecommunications minister Eric Robinson in June 1977.
- From MediaBlab
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