In an email to staff on Wednesday he said the broadcaster had so far managed to cut $17 million in annual expenses from 2021 onwards and was looking into other initiatives.
"The challenges are well-known. Declining real funding,the rising cost of content production and the need to maintain broadcast technologies while also investing in personalised digital services,"Mr Anderson said in the email.
He has advised staff on several initiatives to"enhance our relevance and save significant costs",including renegotiating distribution contracts and changing the ABC's transmission partnership with Optus and Foxtel that led to radio channels coming off the pay TV service but catch-up app iView added to the platform.
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The Foxtel deal was previously worth $4 million a year and Mr Anderson had told staff in June he wanted to"pay nothing". Changing this arrangement was a suggestion at the last two efficiency reviews of the public broadcaster.
The ABC is now looking at other ways to find savings before having to consider cutting into produced content,Mr Anderson said.
He listed renegotiations of other third-party contracts,looking at discretionary spending and addressing ways to increase commercial returns as possible areas to improve the broadcaster’s funding position.