Mike Walsh posts a few thoughts following his “On The Couch” interview with Mark Scott, Managing Director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), in Sydney last Tuesday evening, and the future of public broadcasting in Australia.
IP based distribution of ABC content is growing - by all accounts by the end of 2008, the ABC will have facilitated 50 million downloads of its shows. That raises two questions. Firstly, should ABC content be provided to local audiences unmetered through ISPs as part of an expanded notion of public distribution? And secondly, is the future of public broadcasting really broadcast at all?
