This work offers an analysis of the changes which have taken place in the past decade. It argues that cross-media ownership and audience-reach regulations redrew the map and business culture of television; leading business entrepreneurs acquired television stations and then sold them in the bust of the late 1980s; and new television services were developed for non-English-speaking and Aboriginal viewers. By tracing the links between local, regional, national and international television services, the author offers a picture of Australian television. He argues that Australians are not just an outpost of the US networks, and that Australia has a distinct television culture of its own.
Author Biography
Tom O'Regan is Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at Murdoch University and an editor of Continuum: the Australian journal of media and culture. He co-edited An Australian Film Reader and The Australian Screen, both with Albert Moran.
