Pay television and the ABC are in a battle to be allowed access to the spectrum allocated for community television as broadcasters prepare for a new era of scarcity due to the buying power of telephone companies.
Pay television
Conroy’s anti-siphoning review set to king hit subscription TV
All the risks in the anti-siphoning review lie with the subscription television sector, or, as Stephen Conroy’s Department has taken to calling it in a minor but noticeable change of usage, the “pay television sector’.
The shining star in the media universe: pay TV
Pay TV is turning out to be one of the biggest money spinners in the media sector, with reported increased earnings across Australia and the UK.
Errington: Communications policy requires more attention
Communications policy under the present government has been nothing short of diabolical. Communication is vital to a healthy democracy, yet media and telecommunications policies rarely gets a look-in during an election campaign, writes Wayne Errington.
