'The Bird Wars'...

A feathery ruffling of feathers on Digital Radio in Australia

Australia’s Courier Mail Newspaper reports that three of Australia’s largest networks, the government's ABC, along with commercial stations Austereo and the Racing Radio Network of 4TAB, are 'going to the birds'... or should that be 'giving you the bird?'

For close on a week, ABC and Austereo have been broadcasting nothing but bird sounds on their spare digital channels. Their 'bird feed' is being fed to all mainland state capitals.

Now a channel touting itself “The Real Bird man!” sprung up Wednesday.

This Digital channel has photographs of Budgies and is playing “Bird Music”...
Eg..
Surfer Bird
Bird Dog
Fly Like A Bird
Snow Bird...
The list “flys on”....

No ownership of “The Real Bird man!” is mentioned on air... But, it DID appear at the same time as RadioTAB’s extra digital channel signed off!

I WONDER!!!

(correspondent's name supplied)