Response received from ABC Sunshine Coast

I received this email from the Regional Content Manager:

Thanks for your email James.

Firstly ABC Local Radio does NOT sponsor events. We support events by providing editorial support to an event and sometimes that involves an outside broadcast.

ABC Coast FM has supported the Woodford Folk Fest for many years and our broadcast has been networked nationally. The festival is of interest to our audience and the editorial support that we provide concerns itself with the artists that perform there and the general theme of the festival.

If you hear any content on ABC Coast FM that breaches our editorial policies then please feel free to forward a written compliant to this email address.

Kind regards,

John Caruso

Regional Content Manager

To which I responded:

Hi John, thankyou for the quick response, I appreciate it. I’m really glad to know that ABC Local Radio does not sponsor events; the festival sponsors page did not make that distinction clear.

I agree, the event is something of interest to a very wide audience around the country. If your team do happen to get Ms Dorey in a conversation, please don’t make the mistake that 612 made recently when they let her comments pass without challenge from an appropriately qualified public health specialist.

Thankyou and best regards,

James C. McPherson