ABC To Spend More On News
(1.30 p.m.) CANBERRA. This- Day. In a draft agreement submitted to the Parliamentary standing committee on broadcasting, the Australia*] Broadcasting Commission proposes to extend its news sources.
The agreement, which requires the approval of the committee befoi-e it can be effected, is with, the Australian Newspaper Proprietors' Association.
If the agreement is approved the ABC will spend about £30.000 more yearly than on present news broadcasts.
This would bring the estimated annual costs of national news broadcasts to £83.000. The extra money would be spent on buying news services and in the appointment of staff.
Overseas news would cost the commission £12.500 yearly, and home news £7500. which the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner (Professor Copland) has adjudged as a fair payment.
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Northern Advocate, 25 June 1946, Page 5
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