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The Drum to air at 6pm on ABC News 24

Steve Cannane will host a chat show based on The Drum website for ABC News 24 to air at 6pm weekdays.

Steve Cannane (The Hack Half Hour) will host an hour-long chat show based on The Drum website for ABC News 24 to air at 6pm weekdays.

The Drum is the ABC’s online opinion and analysis site, edited by former Fairfax and Crikey editor Jonathan Green.

The Drum will feature chief political writer Annabel Crabb and Uhlmann as well as invited guests to discuss the news of the day, according to The Australian.

The show will compete with traditional news and current affairs shows, and will air an hour earlier than The 7PM Project, for which Cannane has been a regular panellist.

Like Q&A and The 7PM Project it will be interactive and use Skype and webcams to include viewers.

ABC News 24 launches at 7:30pm on Thursday night, simulasting its first programme on ABC1.

Elsewhere on the channel, The World presenter Scott Bevan will host a mid-evening news bulletin which will focus on international news and a national bulletin hosted by Juanita Phillips which will focus on domestic issues.

Update:  Chris Uhlmann will serve as The Drum host during the election period.

Source: The Australian

17 Responses

  1. Have been enjoying the show since inception, but I do get distracted by people behind the opaque wall swilling beer and champagne etc.,. from time to time

    Are you able to block out these angles, please?

  2. I am an avid viewer of ABC 24. Tonight’s guests were the worst you have ever had (whilst I have been watching at least). Annabel Crabb I have usually had a fair bit of time for but really…. lets lift the debate back to its usual informative standard.
    My vote 1/10 for intellectual substance and useful debate of the issues. We want different views debated well. Not a “yes me too” cosy back patting intellectually bereft cosy group of mates.
    BTW – none of this criticism is levelled at the host.

  3. I enjoy watching The Drum each night as you provide analysis of the important daily issues that arise. I may have missed it but would have appreciated an analysis of some of the activities of the O’Farrell Government in NSW. I write this in the light of Paul Sheehan’s article in the Opinion Section ( SMH 4 July)where he referred to the ‘black hole” as a reason for the action to erode salaries and conditions of public servants. Mr. O’Farrell claims this black hole. Yet one of the first acts of this government was to appoint Mr. Michael Lambert to audit the books. Mr. Lambert, however, upon this audit declared that there was no $4.2 billion black hole. Indeed only $1.93 billions is a shortfall which could be due to a “rounding off of figures” easily recouped with say a rise in house sales. Therefore, why the draconian crackdown on teachers and other public services’ salaries and conditions? The Education Department declared that they had enough savings to finance teachers’ salary increases. The removal of the Industrial Commission as the fair arbiter and no recourse to parliament to appeal allows this Government to rule by regulation with no restraints. With large numbers of teachers retiring, how are we going to attract the brightest graduates to the profession and remember a downgrading in the conditions of teachers downgrades the learning environment for our students. We cannot let these facts escape the public’s notice.

  4. Love the show But on the subject of Whether Barack Obama was born in the USA, and Jo commented that George Washington was not born in America, Yes he was,On his fathers farm at Pope Creek Virginia on 22nd February 1732

  5. Love The Drum but it needs to go for an hour.
    I get tense in the last few minutes, knowing the host is going to have to cut of the interviewee mid sentence.

  6. I’m really looking forward to this, it’s on at a bad time for me but i’m really happy abc decided to do something else other then rolling news in the 6pm easten hour, and I’m not saying this in a bad way but I hope sky news learns from shows like the drum and abc news 24 overall

  7. @Dan – Yep – 4pm here in WA and 3pm during daylight savings times.

    Wonder if The World and mid-evening National News will be on here in WA at a time that will compete with local new broadcasts?

  8. Would be good to alternate news. 🙂 Can’t wait for it. Means it will air in wa at 4pm – shame I won’t be home for it though guess i can watch it online 🙂

  9. He’s the guy that read out my comment on the 7pm Project.

    Those guys work fast, sent a comment at 7:27 and they had it printed and were reading it out at 7:30.

  10. Too early for me… hopefully some early evening programs get an encore late night… really wish Ten kept that up with 7pm Project as well…

  11. Fantastic. Great to have an alternative to the 6pm News bulletins. Foxtel will be looking very shaky in my household once the footy season matches finish in August.

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