SBS is chopping and changing its programs with all the trigger-happy reactiveness of a commercial network, says TV Tonight. If it’s not careful, the station may end up accidently giving itself some nasty cuts in the process.
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Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: SBS management are offside
Why is SBS eroding staff conditions while bragging about the millions of ad dollars generated by the World Cup? asks a Crikey tipster. Plus middle-aged army reservists on the frontlines and why it’s not what you know, but who in the WA ALP.
SBS has a Sam Newman moment
The Footy Show rightfully takes a hammering every time one of its stars utters a misogynist remark. So when The Squiz gets sexist on SBS, where is the outrage, asks Michael Winkler.
Battle of the eccentric Greek gardeners
Since cult TV gardener Vasili shunned SBS in favour of community television, the station has answered back by securing a new Greek gardener of its very own: Costa. Is Aussie TV big enough for the two of them? Maresi!
Liberal Rule: historical epoch or chapter of accidents?
Despite what you may have seen on SBS series Liberal Rule, the rise and fall of the Howard government did not represent big shifts in national sentiment, writes Charles Richardson.
Tips and rumours: SBS TV: more commercial than ever
A Crikey tipster writes: The steady descent of SBS TV into commercialism continues. Now all ad breaks are broadcast at noticeably higher volumes than the programs — the technique used by “real” TV stations for years.
Liberal Rule vs. The Howard Years
Does SBS’s new series Liberal Rule provide a better look back at the Howard government than the ABC’s The Howard Years? Peter Brent ranks the retrospectives.
SBS’s Food Investigators gives a big GI tick to sugar
SBS’s Food Investigators contained the startling recommendation that 15-20% of your daily energy intake should come from sugar, writes David Gillespie. Say what?
Tonight the Tour de France surely ignites?
Tonight’s brute of a 223km stage of La Grande Boucle offers any rider outside the Astana team their first realistic moment of truth since the Trans France Express took control of the race on just the fourth day.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Uluru: “a money making exercise on an international scale”
Crikey readers on climbing Ayer’s Rock and the Uighurs.
SBS News used as vehicle for Top Gear
Why did SBS news include a three-minute story on putting automatic stabilisers into Australian cars? Perhaps because it was just a convenient cross-promo for another SBS show.
Rowe vs Australian writers
News that former SBS Independent head Glynis Rowe is being funded by SBS to produce a crime series using UK and US writers will come as no surprise to those Australian writers who had dealings with her.
Tips and rumours: Age online casual says: we were sacked by phone
Age online journo tells of sacking experience, SBS to use foreign screen writers, ABC’s content culture under Mark Scott, journalists quote colleagues as experts.
SBS2 couldn’t be any more uninspired
SBS launched their multi-channel, SBS2, yesterday — too bad they opted for the dullest selection of programing possible, says Televised Revolution.
ABC flush with cash, SBS spits the dummy
There were conflicting responses from the state-subsidised media outlets in the wake of the Federal Budget.
Good time for government-funded media companies
It’s not such a bad time to be a media company that gets most of its money from the government, writes Jock Given.
ABC to get $136m in new funding
The ABC, SBS and digital television all emerge with extra funding from the 2009-10 budget, but community television loses out in funding boost.
Rebecca Gibney shaded by shadowy bankers
The banks are the real powers behind Australia’s commercial broadcast media.
Tips and rumours: A new old ANZ logo?
Is the ANZ doing a backflip on its new logo? And where was The West Australian’s Swine Flu coverage?
Media briefs: Public broadcasters lose their heads (literally)
SBS’s Paula Masselos departs, Fox won’t air Obama news conference, and Elisabeth Murdoch continues to take over global reality television.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Media unionists weigh in on the future of the ABC and SBS
Media union leaders talk public broadbasting, one reader recalls a menagerie of animal flus, and poses existential questions about the existence of Alex Mitchell.
Budget countdown: will ABC and SBS survive our toughest budget in living memory?
Before considering giving more money to the ABC, there’s the small matter of what savings the broadcaster could make.
