Convergence is everywhere now, it seems. On Monday evenings ABC television offers ‘Q&A’, hosted by Tony Jones, with carefully selected guest panellists who generally widely disagree about the issues that face the nation in that week. This programme is offered live on broadcast television, is also simulcast on ABC radio, and also offers sometimes witty though occasionally annoying tweets, which enable viewers a new form of participation as their contributions are scrolled across the bottom of the screen. Viewers who miss an edition of live ‘Q&A’ can catch up later via the ABC’s iview web site, either viewed on a computer, or on an iPad. The experience is a far cry from its old predecessor, ‘Monday Conference’(1971-78), shown in that same scheduled ABC Monday night time slot hosted by Robert Moore, but only ever offered as a broadcast.
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