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As I have said elsewhere, if you have to make cuts, this is what I would do:
(a) Move Classic FM to DAB and DVB, BUT switch off the transmitters and save energy.
(b) Do you really need high powered 50kW transmitters in Sydney or other metro where other stations survive successfully on 5kW and 2kW.
(c) Amalgamate channels 22 and 23 of ABC-DVB.
(d) Flatten the hierarchy to those who do the work. It appears that there are too many managers. Many commercial commentators make plausible and valid comments on how many people it takes to run a radio program. I am aware based someone I knew at Gore Hill at the time of the large industrial dispute in the early 1990s there were more managers than people actually doing the work. To quote Mr Jon Faine, 21-06-2018 (Radioinfo), Mr Jon Faine's frustration of "....frankly I’m sick of getting it ripped apart because of the failure of our managers,”
(e) Whatever cuts, leave RN alone.
For all those years that I have followed the ABC since childhood, every time that the ABC made cuts, it affected programming more so than other areas. Maybe doing the above will not affect programming.
Thank you
Anthony of Belfield