Last week, as part of the ABC’s cyclone coverage in Brisbane, the ABC made a surprising, and welcome, admission. The ABC thinks AM radio is not a suitable transmission network to reach the most people in Brisbane. How else to describe the choice, by the ABC, to remove classical music station ABC Classic (which, weekdays, reaches just 67,000 people in Brisbane) in favour of a temporary simulcast of its flagship emergency service 612 ABC Radio Brisbane? ABC Classic wasn’t removed from audie...
