which is pleasurable. David Nicholas: 14 Jun 2012 10:10:32am I owe the ABC. If it were not for the ABC giving me a break at 21 and contracting me to do a 15 minute program on film criticism, I wouldn't have met John Hinde or other film luminaries around in the early 1970s. This break allowed me to springboard into a broadcasting/writing career of 40 years. In those days, the ABC wanted people to host Public Affairs programs with Science degrees as Media/Communications courses didn't exist. That said looking at New24 since its inception in July 2010, it appears like Aunty ABC's poor country cousin. While it has fallen into a schedule, which caters to all in the best of all possible worlds, it still feels at odds with the rest of the ABC. News 24/7 is the way of things and at some point it will supersede the other arms of the ABC as budget cuts will force overlapping broadcasting services to fuse. What will make News24 the network it should be, will be a major news story that no one else bothered to cover. A CNN moment if you like. When CNN started out it, cable programming reached a small audience, not large enough for advertisers to spend a dollar to support programming. Media mogul Ted Turner, who owned newspapers in the American South, poured a large chunk of cash into CNN. The network lost money for years before it started turning a profit. I would say that