About this episode
The episode discusses the Federal Budget's impact on the media, the new SBS managing director, and job losses at Ooh Media.
Welcome to this week's Mumbrellacast, where Abe Udy, Hal Crawford, and Nathan Jolly -- who some are calling the best power trio since Nirvana -- discuss the Federal Budget's impact on the media world, the new SBS managing director, and the job losses and bidding wars at Ooh Media. We open with the Federal Budget, easily the best 990-page document to be released so far this month. AAP is being given a cool $15m to keep the newswire ticking along, while the ABC and SBS both got their budgets increased. But it's the capital gains tax changes that have start-ups in the media and marketing space worried. Is it just post-budget panic, or will the new rules make it less attractive to start -- or continue -- a small business in Australia? Also this week, Jane Palfreyman has been named the managing director of the SBS, a job she's been doing for around nine months already, taking over from James Taylor, who is now at Ooh Media (more on him, shortly). As we discuss, the SBS has a reputation for promoting from within their ranks -- and for largely avoiding the "our tax money pays for this garbage" garbage that the ABC seems to cop every time they report something slightly impartial or show…
People in this episode
Hosts: Abe Udy, Hal Crawford, Nathan Jolly
Topics covered
- Federal Budget
- media impact
- SBS managing director
- job losses
- capital gains tax
- Ooh Media AGM
Keywords
- Federal Budget
- SBS
- Ooh Media
- capital gains tax
- job cuts
- media industry
- Australia
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: AAP, ABC, SBS, Ooh Media, Mumbrella
Places: Australia
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