7.30 report axed Quentin Dempster sacked

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http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/abc-sacks-quentin-dempster-20141128-11voj4.html

When veteran ABC broadcaster, Quentin Dempster, says "bye-bye" in his Queensland, boy-from-the-bush way next Friday night, it will be for the last time.

After more than 30 years with the national public broadcaster, Dempster told viewers on Friday night that he plans to go out with a "bang".

"Next Friday will be the final edition of 7.30 NSW," he said. 

"I will be leaving the ABC after 30 years to return to the private sector. It has been an honour to work with Australia's great and unique public broadcaster."

The ABC is abolishing local TV current affairs programs including 7.30 NSW.

"I think the ABC is making a big mistake in axing these shows and will have to revisit the deficiency in future years," Dempster said.

Within two hours of ABC managing director Mark Scott's announcement to staff on Monday that 400 jobs would be lost around the country, director of news, Kate Torney, called Dempster into her office to tell him he had no future role at the ABC.

"I will be among 300 staff retrenched in the first round of the ABC's cuts," he said. 

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http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2014/11/axed-the-roast.html

The axing will raise further concerns about the future of original primetime content on ABC2. Shows like Soul Mates and Back Seat Drivers have attracted modest ratings this year -but some such as Please Like Me and Dirty Laundry Live could potentially move to ABC.

A more dire outcome could even see the channel move online, which has also been speculated in recent months.

This is the last week on air for The Roast.

love the twitter comment

The Roast won’t be back on the ABC next year. If you want a ridiculous parody of a news show, you’ll have to watch the Bolt Report

#roasttv

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The CEO is certainly making a hash of things with what he is cutting.

I think he might have been better off cutting some of the fat from other places first before programs, except that wouldn't go with his Agenda of making Abbott look bad.

Still a bloated, left wing spokesgroup and always will be until it is gutted and rebuilt. 5% wasn't a big enough cut.

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and here was me thinking his agenda was "to keep the **bleep**s honest" regardless of who was in government......; Doh

On why he was being "sacked", Dempster says he "only ever sought to uphold the integrity of Her Majesty's institutions, the Parliament and the police, in Queensland and NSW."

"That's not left-wing," he said. "There could be nothing more conservative.

"Why isn't Rupert Murdoch being sacked for phone hacking, invasion of privacy, intimidating the politicians, his tax havens and all those **bleep** on page three? Just asking."

In what has been described as a "Hunger Games" approach to staff culling, colleagues with similar skill sets have been grouped into small pools and told that some within that group will be among 300 to lose their jobs by Christmas Eve.

Dempster is an active member of MEAA, the journalists' union, he was also a staff-elected director of the board of the ABC.

Hmmm

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Hmmm indeedy

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We caught a bit of "Mad As Hell" before we realised we were on ABC2.

They should have axed that.

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Best 2 programmes on Australian TV are Mad As Hell and The Media Circus with the Chasers !! LOL

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Yeah, they won't axe those.

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The last episode of Mad As Hell was hilarious unless of course if you were a one-eyed LNP supporter.

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If you want a ridiculous parody of a news show, you’ll have to watch the Bolt Report.  Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 Once Gina R is replaced on the Ch 10 board, Bolt will be history.

Who is it blame for these cuts? The ABC will have its budget cut by $254 million over the next five years, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced.

Who said this on election eve 2013? There will be no cuts to ABC & SBS ( looking at you Tony Abbott).