Producers see children’s television reaching a ‘turning point’ in 2024

It may be a new year, but concerns for the future of children’s television remain the same, with producers and creatives waiting to see how the sector will factor into the Federal Government’s incoming streaming regulation.

Three years have now passed since the previous government relaxed the fixed local content quotas on free-to-air commercial networks, removing the mandate for these broadcasters to produce local content for children.

The full impact of the move was laid bare in an August 2023

Sean Slatter

Journalist at IF Magazine

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