Source: mumbrella.com.au - Thursday, January 01, 2015
The ABC’s coverage of the New Year fireworks in Sydney has come in for major criticism from hundreds of viewers and media outlets for the second year in succession, and calls to relinquish the rights to a commercial broadcaster. It was the second year the public broadcaster has shown the event after taking over the rights from commercial rival Channel Nine, with Sydney’s Daily Telegraph today publishing an editorial headlined “ABC’s New Year’s Eve coverage needs a cracker up its clacker” , a reference to a famous headline from News Corp stablemate the NT Times . In it Claire Harvey wrote: “I’m a devoted ABC viewer and even I found the coverage patronising, amateurish, tedious and intermittently baffling.” Viewers took to social media to vent their anger at the coverage (click to enlarge) Hundreds of viewers took to Facebook and Twitter to criticise the coverage, which at one point saw HG Nelson’s head blocking a camera showing the fireworks, labelling it amongst other things “embarrassing” and “awful”. Among the criticisms were too many mentions of the ABC’s funding cuts , and poor vision of the fireworks at midnight and overly long and uncomfortable interviews with guests. The show was hosted by Julia Zemiro and actor Charlie Truslove, with crosses to Tom Ballard, Lawrence Mooney, Charlie Pickering and Adam Zwar amongst others. At the end of te broadcast Zemiro was heard saying “oh thank God” when she thought her microphone had
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The ABC’s coverage of the New Year fireworks in Sydney has come in for major criticism from hundreds of viewers and media outlets for the second year in succession, and calls to relinquish the rights to a commercial broadcaster. It was the second year the public broadcaster has shown the event after taking over the rights from commercial rival Channel Nine, with Sydney’s Daily Telegraph today publishing an editorial headlined “ABC’s New Year’s Eve coverage needs a cracker up its clacker” , a reference to a famous headline from News Corp stablemate the NT Times . In it Claire Harvey wrote: “I’m a devoted ABC viewer and even I found the coverage patronising, amateurish, tedious and intermittently baffling.” Viewers took to social media to vent their anger at the coverage (click to enlarge) Hundreds of viewers took to Facebook and Twitter to criticise the coverage, which at one point saw HG Nelson’s head blocking a camera showing the fireworks, labelling it amongst other things “embarrassing” and “awful”. Among the criticisms were too many mentions of the ABC’s funding cuts , and poor vision of the fireworks at midnight and overly long and uncomfortable interviews with guests. The show was hosted by Julia Zemiro and actor Charlie Truslove, with crosses to Tom Ballard, Lawrence Mooney, Charlie Pickering and Adam Zwar amongst others. At the end of te broadcast Zemiro was heard saying “oh thank God” when she thought her microphone hadfrom Top News on RSS Feeds http://ift.tt/1D764cd
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