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I'm working on a petition. Any input on the wording would be greatly appreciated...
I, the undersigned, would like to appeal to Mark Scott (ABC Managing Director) to overturn a decision made by News Radio management (supported by Helen Thomas, Margaret Cassidy and Sue Howard) to axe Stuart Gary’s Star Stuff programme on News Radio.
Star stuff was Australia’s only Astronomy, cosmology and general science news programme and has been running successfully for almost 9 years and 500 episodes. When the show was running for a full hour on Sunday nights it consistently pulled 8% and even its rerun managed to pull a staggering 6% rating. The show has continued its success even in its relegated and reduced format.
The reasoning provided for the decision was that news radio would be moving away from block programming opting for a continuous rolling news broadcast. This is however, utterly inconsistent with other programming provided by the station which includes a myriad of foreign block programming, three hour blocks devoted to AFL matches and a sports programme (Weekend Half Time) which happens to be hosted by Helen Thomas herself.
I believe that if News Radio can no longer support the programme it should be moved to another station such as Radio National. I also believe that if News Radio can no longer support block programming then it should remove all of its block programming, including that hosted by station management.
Yours,
The Undersigned
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