My tax money spent on the ABC is equivalent to a Big Mac every month, or one DVD each year. Considering the amount of time spent watching television, it seems amazing that the money can stretch so far.
Wednesday, 4 January 2006
Government funding of television
Every year the ABC and its supporters complain about its lack of funding, which has declined in real terms about 30% in the last 15 years. Australians can only dream of the television delights - a real Electronic Program Guide on digital tv, for example - that we would receive if the ABC was funded as well as the BBC is.
My tax money spent on the ABC is equivalent to a Big Mac every month, or one DVD each year. Considering the amount of time spent watching television, it seems amazing that the money can stretch so far.
My tax money spent on the ABC is equivalent to a Big Mac every month, or one DVD each year. Considering the amount of time spent watching television, it seems amazing that the money can stretch so far.