Regional broadcasting
Report
Regional commercial TV in Australia: challenges and opportunities
The aim of this report is to review the current situation of the regional television industry and analyse potential solutions to the challenges it faces. In summary, this report concludes that it is difficult to foresee ongoing viability for the regional commercial television industry on current regulatory, technological and commercial settings.
Discussion paper
Media reform green paper: modernising television regulation in Australia
This discussion paper outlines the Australian government's next stage of proposed media reforms, to support the Australian media industry and to enhance the range and quality of services and content available nationally. Submissions to this paper are due by 23 May 2021.
Report
Radio in the bush: a study of radio listening in remote Western Australia
The ACMA undertook quantitative research in 2016 to examine the role of AM radio in the contemporary communications environment. Radio in the bush— A study of radio listening in remote Western Australia explores the radio listening habits of people living in remote and very remote Western Australia.
Report
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's commitment to reflecting and representing regional diversity
On 27 November 2012 the Senate referred the matter of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) commitment to reflecting and representing regional diversity in Australia to the Environment and Communications References Committee (the committee) for inquiry and report. The terms of reference for the inquiry were: (a) the commitment by the ABC to reflecting and representing...
Briefing paper
Media ownership regulation in Australia
Introduction Although Australia's media ownership laws have remained unchanged for over a decade, debate on the desirability of reform has continued unabated. This debate has been fuelled by the advent of new media technologies, a number of inquiries proposing regulatory changes, and the self-interest of those media organisations that report the controversy. The Government has...