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Canberra jobs go at Southern Cross

Presentation co-ordinators and supervisors at Southern Cross' playout centre are understood to be facing redundancy.

Sothern Cross Austereo logo 2011TV Tonight understands production staff at Southern Cross’ playout centre in Canberra were given bad news earlier this week.

Sources indicate all presentation co-ordinators and supervisors were made redundant and told to re-apply for one of 17 positions or accept voluntary redundancies.

At least 15 people will be out of a job.

There is some talk of  industrial action following the move.

Southern Cross has not supplied any statement by deadline.

5 Responses

  1. Aggregation has undoubtedly lowered (if not completely removed) the amount of local production from regional broadcasters but there wasn’t a large amount of it in the first place. Flipping through TV listings from the ’70s and ’80s shows that most of the hours were filled with programming cherry picked from the three capital city broadcasters with many shows seen in the capitals simply never making it to air on the regionals.

    At least in a post aggregation world people actually get to see those shows.

  2. Aggregation has been a disaster for regional television audiences. You could write a thesis about the loss of localism. Sadly ACMAA pays lip service to regulating broadcasting and Southern Cross, Prime and WIN will continue to be nothing more than relay stations for the capital city networks.

  3. It looks like automation could be taking over.
    I went to see a movie last night, it was cancelled as they do not have projectionists for all shifts now and no one else knew how to fix the problem.
    TV presentation is full of holes, this will only make presentation worse.
    Can anyone tell me why WIN, GEM & GO the sound is out of sync ?

  4. The industry is not in good shape.There were WIN production redundancies earlier this year also. It has been said though since being taken over by Macquarie Media and then Austereo Southern Cross TV couldn’t sell tikects in a chook raffle.

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