Australian content on the ABC

[vickijane]

Here's your chance to lobby for more Aussie content (takes two minutes).

Dig Jazz online has been down for twenty four hours (March 11, 8.45 am). If you want to hear more Australian content on Dig, then please leave a message saying how much you miss it and please include a higher percentage of Australian jazz.

If it’s up again by the time you read it, please send an email anyway lobbying for more Aussie content. Click the link:

www.abc.net.au/dig/contact/default.htm

In Canada they have a law that broadcasters must include a fairly high percent of current Canadian content. We have those laws too but the percentage is much lower and there is no stipulation about content being contemporary. Time for a change, I believe!

[vickijane]

has anyone done this yet? Just curious.

[mrqwerty]

Do you mean Jazztrack as well?..they usually always have some Oz stuff...

[vickijane]

Dig jazz and Jazztrack include Australin content, but there's always room for more, in my opinion.

[vickijane]

Found a new way to get to Dig jazz!

I am assuming by the silence on this topic that each of you took two minutes to lobby for your own industry. May I thank you on behalf of all the musicians in Australia who are doing door deals this week.

[timothystevens]

Right now on the Dig Jazz 'just played' page there are ten items displayed. Five of them are Australian. This seems pretty good to me. Both Paul Grabowsky and Joe Chindamo are represented (though at opposite ends of the list).

I don't really listen to it because in my experience it's pretty underwhelming via dial-up.

[vickijane]

I'm not suggesting that Mal and Jerry aren't supportive of local musicians Tim, if that was indeed what you were thinking. My experience of Dig jazz is that it is most unusual to have 50 percent Australian content.

Increasingly marketing driven, the ABC needs our community to let the marketers who drive the funding decisions (based laregely on electronic data analysis) know that we are here and that we want to hear more contemporary Australian jazz. Every click, on every page on the ABC site is monitored. They should know how long you stay on which landing page and what you do there, if they are smart they'll know where you go online after you leave and where you came from.

They are playing Bernie McGann, and Phil Slater before that but only after 10 or so foreigners but I forgive them today!

You are not alone with dial up Tim. Australia is light years behind the rest of the ‘developed’ world with half the onlne population still using it.

[johnk]

vickijane said:

I'm not suggesting that Mal and Jerry aren't supportive of local musicians Tim, if that was indeed what you were thinking. My experience of Dig jazz is that it is most unusual to have 50 percent Australian content.

Increasingly marketing driven, the ABC needs our community to let the marketers who drive the funding decisions (based laregely on electronic data analysis) know that we are here and that we want to hear more contemporary Australian jazz. Every click, on every page on the ABC site is monitored. They should know how long you stay on which landing page and what you do there, if they are smart they'll know where you go online after you leave and where you came from.

They are playing Bernie McGann, and Phil Slater before that but only after 10 or so foreigners but I forgive them today!

You are not alone with dial up Tim. Australia is light years behind the rest of the ‘developed’ world with half the onlne population still using it.

do u work 4 the goverment vckijane? u sound like ur making a speech sometimes

[jvmac]

a speech for more australian jazz in the media, keep up the battle VJ, you are a small but positive voice on the jazz landscape. Always pushing our local artists even though you want Jessica Williams for Wangaratta (how's that going by the way?).