The historian in Dr O’Donnell leads him to remember the background to the ABC’s decision to cut production in Tasmania; the futurologist to wonder about the role of the National Broadband Network.
To mainlanders it is little more than an amusing irony: if you come from Hobart it is a downright insult.
The second settled European city of Australia does not exist as a ‘Metro market’ according to Oztam, the TV ratings agencies jointly owned by the commercial triplets, the Seven Network, Nine Network and Network Ten. Hobart is part of the undifferentiated ‘regions’ surveyed daily for forty weeks a year. According to the numbers, they don’t really matter on a national level.
