All metropolitan commercial television broadcasting licensees reported meeting main channel (55 per cent) and multi-channel (730 hours) transmission quotas for Australian content in 2013.
What needs to be in place to get the sector back to work? And what will production actually look like when things can resume?
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has called for submissions about the future of free-to-air TV
Existential threats to the screenwriting profession have been making headlines lately with the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike, but Australian writers working in children's television have been facing their own less noisy, but equally momentous, disruption since the scrapping of quotas in October 2020, writes Cleon Prineas.
Gretel Killeen, Media Watch’s Jonathan Holmes, 2UE’s John Stanley and Australian Press Council chairman Julian Disney will take part in community forums next month which will review and debate the radio and TV broadcasting codes.
The Federal Government has committed $4.2 billion in funding for the public broadcasters over the next three years, while concurrently outlining the next steps in its media reform agenda.
The ACMA has registered a new Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice in a bid to adapt to the changing media landscape.
The broadcasters have breached TV code obligations of accuracy and fairness according to ACMA