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How much money does it take for a devoted ABC presenter and public broadcasting advocate to go commercial? About $500,000. Score this as a belated triumph for the Chris of Death, whose support invariably delivers unintended results.
In other ABC news, apparently Melbourne presenter John Cleary last night repeated Bill Moyers’ bogus James Watt attribution (“After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back”). ABC types have a strange habit of repeating myths earlier published by the Sydney Morning Herald’s Alan Ramsey.
So what kind of dipstick “management” keeps their hottest talent on a year-to-year contract? Serves them right.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 06 12 at 04:24 PM • permalinkModern management who harness “the power of the now” rather then get bogged down in forward thinking.
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 06 12 at 09:06 PM • permalinkAs her salary leaps from $200,000 to $500,000, I hope Angela at least has the good grace to turn to the Right. It’s one thing to be a champagne socialist - it’s quite another to be a 1986 Chateau Mouton Rothschild socialist.
Posted by blandwagon on 2005 06 12 at 09:35 PM • permalinkI thought the ABC was skint? How can it afford to pay an airhead like Angela Catterns 200K? She was crap when she was on JJJ. As to being worth 500K WTF??
I’d like to be the coke dealer that supplies broadcast execs- they must do a shiload of blow if they think any of the gibbering idiots that infest the airwaves are worth any thing above the dole.Gotta agree on the poisonality thing- why broadcast management seems to think that the airwaves have to been filled with the brainless blather of ratchet-jawed bucketheads, yammering at each other like participants in a group therapy session for the terminally unfunny? The network that comes up with a station that plays music (at by that I mean anything that doesn’t include doof, rap, Nickelback or Barnsie) interspersed with time calls, regular news and traffic updates and ads that don’t insult your intelligence, and either computerised voiceovers or employ people capable of reading copy without adding their own two-bobs worth and who will work for average weekly earnings will coin it in. Every station at the moment is aimed at the bogan market, and they don’t have large amounts of disposable income.
Could someone tell us the name of the woman who does a lot of the background announcing on ABC TV? she has the most garbled, convoluted accent, strange pronunciation, smarmy tone as well.
I have friends who work for the ABC (true!) who cannot stand her and mute their TV when she comes on.
Do you know who I mean?Posted by arnienelly on 2005 06 13 at 03:54 AM • permalinkThing is that Alan Jones, John Laws and all the other berated ‘shock jocks’, for all their alleged crimes actually earn their own living, the ABC pays their motley crue out of funds stolen from taxpayers.
I didnt know Trioli was on par with Sally Loane, certainly both are twits and it pisses me off that their dopey airheadedness is deemed a public service.
time for abc tv to go taxpayers have higher priority for funds i reckon
Posted by Astonished on 2005 06 13 at 07:12 AM • permalinkMorning presenter Angela Catterns follows Philip Clark going to commercial radio. I don’t mind listening to Philip on the afternoon drive home from work, I surf between Philip on 2GB and Richard Glover on 2BL.
Now on the drive in to work, I surf between Angela Catterns and Alan Jones ... I prefer Angela because her program is light weight without a lot of politics ... gets me into the mood for a crap day at work ... but I surf when AM comes on, it usually never fails to disappoint.
Good luck to Angela on her move to commercial radio ... I don’t know if I’ll follow her there, but I might if her giggle sister Tony Squires defects too. Tony Squires is a very funny media and sports commentator ... I think we should congratulate Angela on making the move ... waiting for the flak ...
Ahh, Angela, I remember, about a decade ago, when she was a JJJ announcer and actually got to interview the great Gough!
It would have to be the most syncophantic interview I have ever heard, and I would have to say I have heard some bad ones.
I kid you not, she actually said (ie minimal paraphrasing), “You know Gough, I and most of my friends reckon you were the best Prime Minister ever!” For a moment, I thought this would be too much for even the Great Gough (tm). Not to fear, the supreme egotist still managed to take it in his stride. I have never had any respect for Ms Katterns since, of course.In fact, now that I think about it, it was about that time that my politics started to change. Was this interview the catalyst? Perhaps I should thank Angela.
Second thought: Was Karl Rove practicing his techniques in the early nineties at JJJ in Australia, with Angela as one of his minions?
#16 entropy:
Maybe Angela has learnt not to broadcast her political allegiances in the last decade ... I wish that our current media and fillum stars do the same thing ... there is nothing more objectionable than them preaching to their audience on politics ... I haven’t heard Angela Catterns sermonize lately on Gough, arguably one of the worst Prime Ministers that Australia has has had to have ...I don’t think it is off topic (OT), because I mentioned his name in topic #15, but my cricket club is interested in getting Tony Squires to our 50th anniversary next season. I think he is an excellent laugh ... good night ...
Don’t know about the early ‘90s, but there’s certainly a Rovian/VRWC thing been going on in the ABC since 2000, particularly JJJ; it has become so juvenile, undergraduate and infested with desperately unfunny, inane and blatantly biased personalities that it is unlistenable, and is shedding audience share quicker than Last Man Standing. Certainly ABC management are not answerable to anyone for their pitiful ratings, but with a hostile senate just around the corner the question is sure to eventually emerge- what are we getting for all the cash slurped up by the ABC? If so few Australians watch and listen to the broadcaster, what needs to be changed, or is it worth saving? I think the appointment of these two spastics to the important breakfast gig was a stroke of Machiavellian brilliance- I stand in awe. I doubt having Kim Jong Ill babbling in Korean would have listeners switching stations in the numbers this pair of dribbling imbeciles have managed.
Last time I saw Tony Squires I wanted to beat him to death with his stupid haircut.
And why must the ABC continue to assault our senses?
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 06 13 at 10:25 AM • permalink
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This just adds more proof to the notion that the left simply have no idea of each other’s existence beyond snippets of info sent out on some anti-Rove mailing list.