THE Chaser has picked up an award likely to take pride of place on the team's mantelpiece - for the second year running, its War on Everything was the most-complained-about show on the ABC.

The guerilla comedy program attracted a total of 4995 complaints in the year to the end of June, 4286 of which were in relation to the Make a Realistic Wish Foundation sketch that featured children with terminal illnesses.

Following the sketch and expressions of outrage that extended all the way to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, the show was suspended for two weeks and the members of the group apologised.

Next on the 2008-09 complaints list was the decision to axe various programs on Radio National, which generated 1379 complaints, many inspired by the on-air attack on the decision by Religion Report host Stephen Crittenden.

In total, the broadcaster received 32,130 complaints, including 3564 for bias or lack of balance and 1738 for factual inaccuracy. The total number of complaints was down more than 20 per cent from last year's total of 40,246.

The figures were contained in the national broadcaster's annual report, released yesterday, that also revealed that Australians are more satisfied with the ABC's performance that they were a year ago.

Newspoll found that 89 per cent of people value the broadcaster and its services to the community, up 1 percentage point, while those who believe quality programming offered by ABC television was steady at 82 per cent, and ABC radio up 4 points to 69 per cent.