The ABC managing director, David Anderson, sent a long email to staff on Thursday explaining that once again the ABC was to undergo a major restructure of its divisions “to reduce the complexity of the current commissioning model and accelerate decision-making”. The driver appears to be shrinking audiences for linear broadcast and a need to “grow our digital reach”.
Davie: “Imagine a world that is internet-only, where broadcast TV and radio are being switched off and choice is infinite. A switch-off of broadcast will and should happen over time, and we should be active in planning for it.” Those pillars will now be smashed up, moving the regional bureaus into news, and creating an over-arching content division headed by a newly created chief content officer. The radio networks will move into the content division. My head is spinning.SBS’s director of television, Kathryn Fink, appears to have inadvertently been caught up in an international scandal involving the Juventus Football Club.
A statement from Juventus said the board had stepped down in light of the ongoing police investigation and “considered [it] to be in the best social interest to recommend that Juventus equip itself with a new board of directors to address these issues.”