‘Vital’: ABC Radio to become own division after chair Kim Williams intervenes to reverse strategy

Kim Williams is understood to have raised the importance of radio consistently since his appointment as ABC chair earlier this year. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

ABC Radio will be elevated to the executive team and moved to a stand-alone audio division in a dramatic reversal by the chair, Kim Williams, of a major restructure announced by the managing director, David Anderson, last year.

Guardian Australia understands the backflip on strategy after just 16 months follows Williams speaking consistently about the primacy of ABC radio since arriving in March.