While ABC Television should be commended for their efforts in delivering children’s television, it seems to me to be a case of overkill. There are several periods during each day when all three ABC channels are running children’s programming. And where can the sense be in promoting a channel (ABC3) devoted to school age kids which is broadcasting largely when the kids are at school during term-time? Isn’t the only way they can watch the programs be to play truant? Perhaps these hours would be better served by reviving the very large effort the ABC used to put into education programs used in schools. I remember those times well, I used to design educational programs for ABC Television in Hobart in the 1980s before successive governments starved the Corporation of funding and shut down all education programming. Priorities eh?
