This E-Brief updates earlier statistics on funding provided to the ABC by the Australian Government and information on funding derived from other sources.

The analogue subscription television broadcast carriage service encompasses the terrestrial carriage of analogue signals used for transmitting a pay TV service, as well as the use (or potential use) of conditional access services. The service was declared on 1 September 1999 and is due to expire in July 2007. The ACCC commenced a review of...

Peter Andren MP, the Independent member for Calare, considers the impact of the recent changes to media law on media diversity in rural areas. The laws, which will allow a single owner to control both television and newspapers in a particular market, will see, he says, an end to local content in rural areas.

Peter Andren MP, the Independent member for Calare, considers the impact of the recent changes to media law on media diversity in rural areas. The laws, which will allow a single owner to control both television and newspapers in a particular market, will see, he says, an end to local content in rural areas.

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...