Australian commercial free-to-air broadcasters are unhappy with the costs of complying with the Code of Practice and claim the classification zones prevent them from satisfying viewers' appetite for more PG and M-rated content.
Australia's 69 commercial free-to-air broadcasters collectively lost $364.8 million despite posting $4.25 billion in revenues in 2011-2012.
New ACMA investigation to determine whether Australian's have adequate access to material of local significance.
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.
Channel Nine's A Current Affair is under fire from the Australian Communications and Media Authority after the organisation found the program to have breached provisions on factual accuracy, privacy and complaints handling.
ACMA has warned the industry that free-to-air broadcasters are increasingly relying on New Zealand content to bolster their minimum annual Australian content quotas
Almost one-third of Australian households have purchased a new television set in the past 12 months
The film about cyberbullying and sexting was developed by ACMA