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.
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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.
Democracy and the near-death of public trust journalism
As classified advertising migrates from newspapers to the internet, the funding source for Australiabn public trust journalism is disappearing, writes Eric Beecher.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Twitter … Climate change … Victoria’s bushfires … Home and Away …
A Twitter hoax: Gerard Henderson writes: Re. Yesterday’s editorial. We all fell about laughing yesterday at my coverage at the top of Crikey. Anne has told me that Crikey believed that my reflection on “the Scotch Finger question” was all my own work. As you will now be aware, Crikey was hoaxed — not unlike the fate […]
Macquarie’s curious Canadian bedfellows
Just what game is Macquarie Group playing with its attempts to sell Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group? asks Glenn Dyer.
ABC/SBS board appointments: step up from Howard
It’s been a long wait, but the first fruits of the Government’s new ABC Board appointments process have emerged, writes Bernard Keane.
Shaun Brown: Get set for SBS Mark 2
The multicultural broadcaster has its hand out for more funds, says Managing Director Shaun Brown, and that could mean more channels like SBS2.
Pay v. public: the battle for relevance in broadcasting
The pay television sector has made a comprehensive and pointed challenge to the ABC and SBS and their claims on the public purse, writes Margaret Simons.
Freeview, digital and analogue teevee: commercial station’s big temper tantrum
So what’s Freeview? Well, it’s not like the UK Freeview. In fact it’s not clear what it is, because it’s not a new service of any kind, writes Bernard Keane.
Redefining the role of SBS in the digital revolution
During the Howard years, Australian media underwent a revolution, writes Bernard Keane.
Media briefs: Newsroom backstabbing, Top Gear loses stig
Falloon disengagement begins … Satin safari watch … Less foreign news than ever before! … Top Gear loses its stig … Miley boosts VF sales … Newspaper massacre .. Newsroom backstabbing.
What does the ABC’s Charter actually mean?
The charters of our public broadcasters are broadly worded, binding them to almost nothing, writes Margaret Simons.
ABC and SBS look to the future (and hope it’s cashed-up)
This week Crikey begins a series of articles on whether the public broadcasters are fulfilling their charters, what they are doing, what they should be doing and how to take things forward, writes Margaret Simons.
Public broadcasting about to get a shake-up
I understand the federal government will shortly announce an inquiry into the role of public broadcasting in modern day Australia. Margaret Simons spills the beans.
