This presentation covers research into listener attitudes toward advertising, sponsorship and commercial influence, in news and current affairs programs, on commercial radio. Commercial radio continues to be a significant part of our contemporary media environment, and is also a 'traditional' broadcast media that is subject to content regulation via industry codes of practice, program standards...

The topics covered in this report range from a critical review of each government’s public diplomacy programs and its aims and objectives for international broadcasting, to developments in the international broadcasting arena – the major evolutions and trends witnessed over the last decades.

Achieving efficient spectrum management in the pursuit of the public interest is a key aspect of legal reforms introduced in spectrum liberalising countries. However, spectrum law is unclear about the precise nature of the efficiencies to achieve and choices between different efficiency objectives are often dictated by the nature of the services, bands and market...

Forget media diversity in the fast broadband world. The new model for local media is top-down and centrally controlled.

Digital radio services will commence in the six state capital cities from 1 January, 2009. Submissions by interested stakeholders on the proposed access regime are invited by the ACCC.The ACCC has issued draft legislative instruments, decision-making criteria and procedural rules seeking stakeholders' views on the access regime that will apply to digital radio. Interested stakeholders...