Jon Faine tells the Melbourne Press Club the ABC has to be a bit more mongrel
3 October 2019 · News
On the eve of retirement, the ABC Melbourne’s Jon Faine addressed the Melbourne Press Club yesterday, reminiscing about 30 years of broadcasting.
When asked about the current state of the ABC, Jo...
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Faine is absolutely right about ABC Regional. It was doing OK until the start of 2016 when Mark Scott made all the long-term regional content managers redundant and introduced a "news-based" format. The BBC had done the same thing to local radio a couple of years earlier, realised their mistake and were already back-pedalling furiously even before Scott introduced it in Oz. As a result, ABC regional radio is now terminally boring and irrelevant to a local audience, its older audience is deserting in droves while the younger audience sees nothing worth tuning in for. A massive failure.