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Commercial TV groaning under weight of email complaints system

The first full year of the new email-based complaint-making process has seen an explosion on moans and groans and worse from viewers.

Crikey Says: Why not a handout for all in the media?

Did the TV industry do what normally happens when incumbents are threatened by new competitors — improve its product, sharpen its service, listen to its customers? Are you kidding?

The furphies fly in the Great Free TV Handout Debate

There’s plenty of nonsense circulating about the Government’s half-billion dollar handout to the television networks. And not all of it from the Government.

Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey readers’ Friday arguments

Indigenous disadvantage … Free TV … On Unions … Michael Jackson … back pain … Rundle’s Russia … Optus … Dog and Christianity.

So crazy it could work: what about another commercial TV network?

With his internet monitoring policy in tatters and not going forward, Senator Stephen Conroy needs a new idea. Here it is: Give the country a fourth commercial TV network, writes Glenn Dyer.

Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups

The Great Global Warming Swindle … scepticism is a good thing … Keating, Hitler and Howard … Lennon government is poison … Brough’s pork barrelling …