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| Chris Winter, a key architect of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's new ABC2 digital channel, describes its opportunities and challenges | | Date Created: 25 Nov, 2005, 06:26 PM |
 Chris Winter, the manager of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's new, second digital channel, ABC2, describes the ABC's strategy, production processes and thinking about the future world of broadband video and IPTV.
He describes how many people are watching ABC2, and what consumption patterns have emerged so far. He describes how the ABC (or AuBC to distinguish it from the ABC in the United States) is revolutionising its output, with a broadband version, for example, of the popular (and long running) current affairs show, Four Corners. The effort to create a strong experience with each week's Four Corners topic has taken centre stage at ABC new media and Winter describes why it is a showpiece of what the ABC, as an integrated cross platform media organisation similar to the BBC, can do with its new skills. Now if only the ABC had more funding...
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