A Culture Channel? Strewth Mate, No Worries

IT IS hard to imagine John Singleton, advertising and talk radio boss, gambler and quintessential Aussie, as a culture vulture. But not only is he serious about bidding for a fourth commercial TV licence if a Labor government, if elected, sticks to its word and puts one up for grabs in 2006, he also wants the fourth network to show only Australian programming, with a heavy - but not total - emphasis on "culture".