I hope the proposals from the one- man committee of inquiry to make the ABC and SBS ‘more commercial’ are rejected. It is superficially attractive to charge a fee for access to reruns of news and current affairs programmes on TV and radio, allow more advertising on the SBS, form joint partnerships with commercial broadcasters, show programmes on additional ‘platforms’ and new-fangled ‘devices’, create yet another government company to run back-end services, have more investment in internet delivery and expand FM broadcasts.
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