Hopes for new ABC TV arts program

The ABC has not made a local weekly arts program for three years. Is that about to change?

31 Mar 2014 12:00

Richard Watts

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Image: Ash Keating & Antony Hamilton at the Festival of Live Art, Melbourne. Photo by Tony Owczarek via www.abc.net.au/arts

Two separate sources inside the ABC have told artsHub that a new dedicated arts program will feature as part of the ABC’s forthcoming television schedule.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts