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Australian television has been transformed over the past decade. 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.
Australian Television Culture is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of the fundamental changes of this period. It is also the first to offer a substantial treatment of the significance of multiculturalism and Aboriginal initiatives in television.
Tracing the links between local, regional, national and international television services, Tom O'Regan builds a picture of Australian television. He argues that we are not just an outpost of the US networks, and that we have a distinct television culture of our own.
List of contents
Foreword
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Glossary
Introduction1 Australia's television culture
2 High communications policy in Australia
3 The rise and fall of entrepreneurial television, 1986-92
4 Television's double face: Of imported and local programming
5 Television and national culture
6 National television in the new cultural order
7 SBS-TV: Symbolic politics and multicultural policy in television provision
(with Dona Kolar-Panov)8 SBS-TV: A television service
(with Dona Kolar-Panov)9 An Aboriginal television culture: Issues, strategies, politics
(with Philip Batty)Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
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.
Summary
Australian television has been transformed over the past decade. Australian Television Culture is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of the fundamental changes of this period. It is also the first to offer a substantial treatment of the significance of multiculturalism and Aboriginal initiatives in television.
