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Two points: Program distribution and caution on wholesale selling of surplus disks.
First:
While I feel sorry for people losing jobs at the at the ABC Adelaide, I hope that they may be deployed elsewhere within the organization. At the same time centralisation of program material began in 1986 with the deployment of the Aussat (now Optus) satellite. What used to be a duplication in each state of the distribution of TV program material is now distributed from Sydney with the appropriate time delays. One would have thought that music and spoken word CDs and LPs would have been digitized and stored in a central database much earlier than today (2018) and that any program maker anywhere would be able to retrieve the relevant file in a lossless format (*.wav, *.flac) for editing.
Two:
I don't like the wholesale removal of staff and resources. For staff, I don't like it when any business entity reduces staff numbers then later on recruits for staff to fill similar roles. Look for example at the ABC recruiting new journalists doing roles similar to the 'redundant' staff. It also happens with large accounting and law firms. For resources, be very careful that the library's CDs and LPs are not sold. I would not be surprised if there is material that is unique to Adelaide that if sold would not be added to the central repository of digital material.
Thank you,
Anthony of exciting Belfield NSW