SCA is launching a new bespoke DAB digital radio channel called ‘7 Rio Live’ which will run live audio simulcast of the events coverage from 5:30am to 1pm AEST each day.
Zachariou takes up the position only three months after she was apointed Screen NSW Production and Development Executive.
The eight-part web-series is written by and stars Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan, who said jointly: “1 million plays of The Katering Show season two on ivue (sic). We can’t believe it. That’s over half the population of Australia."
Their first joint initiative was a four day workshop at AFTRS last week for Year 9 and Year 10 students from Granville Boys High School.
Screen Australia will select the pair and provide up to $5,000 travel support per producer.
The film had a theatrical release in the UK and Ireland earlier this year through Universal Pictures, where it had the highest opening ever for an Irish documentary.
Shooting is expected to begin in the second half of this year.
"The announcement by ABC management yesterday afternoon of fourteen positions to be cut from the Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne newsrooms has been made more painful by yet another deplorable use of targeted redundancies", the MEAA said in a statem