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New documents shed light on the enthusiasm of the Attorney-General’s Department to move forward with (and think large on) data retention, and the resistance it encountered from industry.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has found Channel Nine Adelaide guilty of breaching privacy provisions for airing unauthorised footage of a family involved in a home birth. This is the first time a TV station has been slapped for breaching new privacy guidelines introduced by ACMA last December. The February news story, about a […]

2Day FM says it’s business as usual, despite the sins of controversial shock jock Kyle Sandilands. Rachael Jane Chin has been following the appeal against ACMA’s licence ruling in Sydney.

Crikey readers have their say.

The broadcasting regulator has found Alan Jones in breach for his notorious “0.001%” comments, but not those about killing the Prime Minister.

Crikey readers have their say.

Australia’s media watchdog has opened an investigation into recent comments by radio host Kyle Sandilands’ that a baby born with extra limbs was a “spider baby” and would have an unfair advantage at the Olympics.

Kyle Sandilands’ comments cut to the core of the internal FM radio culture towards women. Well, let’s just say radio.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority found it is “unclear” whether the new self-regulation initiatives have acted to reduce children’s exposure to junk food advertising on free-to-air TV, writes Jane Martin.

Three golden moments from radio that have hit the news in the past 24 hours. Take a bow Kyle Sandilands, Ray Hadley and Alan Jones.

It has taken 18 months, and one of those involved was sacked long ago, but today we finally get the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s pronouncement on the conduct of channels Seven and Ten last year.

Given that Lachlan Murdoch is now exerting clear influence over Ten Network Holdings as acting CEO and a substantial shareholder, why aren’t the regulators examining the question of his ongoing directorship of News Corp?

Lachlan Murdoch now runs Ten, owns half a radio network, and sits on the News Corp board, but has so far faced only one media diversity obstacle.

We’d like to congratulate Lachlan Murdoch on his appointment as (acting) chief executive of the Ten TV network.

ACMA has applied some baffling logic in its decision to exonerate Seven over the outing of the former NSW Transport Minister David Campbell.

If you’re going to out an irrelevant but embarrassing secret of a public figure, you’d better make sure they react badly. That seems to be ACMA’s logic in clearing Channel Seven of breaching standards when it outed NSW MP David Campbell.