ACMA has released the first two in a series of fact sheets relating to its key priority tasks resulting from the media law reforms and has set up an email update service on its website. The first two in the series are titled 'Media Reform: Key Concepts' and 'Media Reform ? Digital TV Standards Development'.

Rhonda Jolly provides an overview of the development of media ownership regulations and the changes wrought by the recently implemented media ownship legislation. The Bill permits cross-media mergers in radio licence areas where sufficient diversity of media groups remains following the mergers. At least five separate media groups will be required to remain in mainland...

Rhonda Jolly provides an overview of the development of media ownership regulations and the changes wrought by the recently implemented media ownship legislation. The Bill permits cross-media mergers in radio licence areas where sufficient diversity of media groups remains following the mergers. At least five separate media groups will be required to remain in mainland...

Media owners appear to be scrambling to take advantage of new legislative changes. And amid the flurry, a deal confirmed yesterday between James Packer's PBL company and a group called CVC Asia Pacific has suddenly given Mr Packer an awful lot of ready money for investment, billions of dollars of it.

In July, proposed changes to the current cross-media ownership and foreign media ownership laws were launched as part of a media reform package. In response, the ACCC published its views on protecting competition (and possibly diversity) in the context of anticipated mergers in rapidly developing media markets, which are outlined here by Karen Gibbons and...