<p>Commercial television is under pressure, newspapers have had to reinvent themselves, audiences are splintering across platforms, and the algorithms are doing their best to turn everyone into a partisan.</p><p>Into that comes Hugh Marks - a career commercial media executive, former Nine boss, and now the man running the ABC.</p><p>He joins to talk about the future of traditional media, whether commercial TV can still make money in a world of apps, short-form video and shrinking ad pools, and why he thinks the ABC’s great advantage is that it can be “agnostic” about where audiences find its content - even as staff are stretched across far more platforms than before.</p><p>There are reflections, too, on the ABC’s “mistakes” - including the decision to remove Antoinette Lattouf from ABC Radio Sydney - and perhaps its failure to take a risk on global success Bluey.</p><p>And then there are the more fun questions: whether Married at First Sight helped Nine pull off the Fairfax merger, whether the ABC needs its own version of it, and whether Hugh Marks can persuade Australians - and politicians - that the ABC is not just worth funding, but worth backing into the future.</p><p>ABC managing director Hugh Marks joins Alan Kohler to unpack it all on That's Business with Alan Kohler.</p><p>Got a burning business question?</p><p>Send a short voice recording to the ABC Business Daily team at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></p>