03985nam 22007575 450 991050298250332120240326133123.09789811607769981160776110.1007/978-981-16-0776-9(CKB)4100000012036794(MiAaPQ)EBC6734394(Au-PeEL)EBL6734394(OCoLC)1273981578(PPN)258056274(DE-He213)978-981-16-0776-9(EXLCZ)99410000001203679420210924d2021 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierStrangling Aunty: Perilous Times for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation /by Virginia Small1st ed. 2021.Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2021.1 online resource (1113 pages)9789811607752 9811607753 Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Managing the ABC -- Chapter 3: Funding the ABC -- Chapter 4: What ideas rule? -- Chapter 5: Losing the brand in the Australian media landscape -- Chapter 6: Political influences on the ABC -- Chapter 7: Future options and conclusion.Drawing on a wealth of academic research, statistics and interviews with key Australian media people including present and former Australian Broadcasting Corporation staffers, this book explores the transitions of the ABC under various types of organisational re-strategising, governance and political shifts. The book provides the reader with an authoritative narrative as to how the ABC has lost its iconic status in Australian society, and unfolds how the ABC has strayed from its respected public charter which endowed the ABC with a distinctive and important role in informing, educating and entertaining the Australian public. Successive federal government funding cuts have shrunk staffing levels and services while it has pursued a corporatist model that mimics the trappings and practices of commercial media. In that process it has become politicised and trivialised, thereby threatening its demise. The book is a unique and timely contribution at a time of dwindling interest for the funding of public assets everywhere. There is no other book in the market that addresses the decline of the organisation (the ABC) and analyses the reasons for its demise within an organisational theoretical framework. The book is written for an educated general audience, with academics and media practitioners specifically in mind, and has everyday applications for business organisations operating in the public sector by bringing together important findings of public funding, budgets, management and organisational strategies and evolution.BusinessManagement scienceMotion picture industryTelevision broadcastingMotion picturesAustralasiaCommunicationMarketingBusiness and ManagementFilm and Television IndustryAustralasian Film and TVMedia and CommunicationMarketingBusiness.Management science.Motion picture industry.Television broadcasting.Motion pictures.Australasia.Communication.Marketing.Business and Management.Film and Television Industry.Australasian Film and TV.Media and Communication.Marketing.302.230994Small Virginia848314MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910502982503321Strangling Aunty2569028UNINA