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Category Archives: Pay Television

How Good is A-Pac?

February 13, 2009 – 9:29 am

I’ve written before about the launch of pay television’s public affairs channel A-Pac, and what a slap in the face it has been for the ABC’s plans to launch a similar channel. But how good is A-Pac? I just ran across this post on Syd Walker’s blog which describes how the same event is played [...]

By Margaret Simons | Also posted in Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Comments (6)

ABC and SBS – A Merger?

February 2, 2009 – 2:10 pm

As those who read the weekend Australian or Matthew Ricketson’s blog will know by now, the Boston Consulting Group at the behest of the ABC has done a report recommending that the ABC and SBS become one organisation, merging all functions other than television programming, news and radio. In a nice piece of management-consultant euphemism, [...]

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ABC and SBS Lock Out Pay TV, says industry.

January 23, 2009 – 4:30 pm

One of the arguments one hears from within the ABC against the outsourcing of production is that it leads to Auntie spending its dollars on programs which, after a few months, end up on pay television. A different view emerges from a submissions from the pay television sector to the Government review of public broadcasting. [...]

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A-Pac Launch

January 20, 2009 – 9:27 am

The launch of Foxtel’s public affairs channel today means there is a fresh need to make the case for government funded public broadcasting.The ABC and pay television are going head to head in a battle for access to what is perhaps our most valuable natural resource – the broadcasting spectrum. Read more in the Crikey [...]

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