Time for Conroy to deliver

25 March 2010It is time for the communications minister to talk about how content might be nurtured, not just delivered, writes Margaret Simons in Crikey

FOR AT LEAST a year, it has been clear that one of the key media battles of this decade will be between those who would like us to pay up-front for content (Murdoch, pay television and others) and free-to-air providers, with leadership for the free-to-airs being provided by taxpayer-funded broadcasters such as the ABC.

This is the context for communications minister Stephen Conroy’s promise of a regulatory shake-up, made in a speech to the Australian Broadcasting Summit yesterday...

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