Rebate is about digital switchover: Ten

In part two of our special report on the future of free-to-air broadcasting, we talked to Ten’s  head of programming and head of corporate communications, Beverly McGarvey and Jeanette McLoughlin respectively.

According to McLoughlin, the controversial license fee rebate is not just about funding local content, but mainly about the digital switchover work that the FTA operators are doing in conjunction with the government.

This is how our conversation with McLoughlin went:

Encore: One of the main objectives behind the rebate was to protect local content. How does Network Ten see the license fee rebate?