Last week many people voiced their opinion saying they want Kostakidis to return to SBS, to read the nightly News. We know. The Save Our SBS web site (www.SaveOurSBS.org) has been inundated with comments to that effect.
In wondering why so many people have objected to Australia’s best newsreader not being on the small box [...]
Posted on 28 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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Posted on 26 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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According to media reports Mary Kostakidis has walked out on SBS.
Save Our SBS has been inundated with blog comments and emails from people who are supportive of Mary Kostakidis in her stand against the commercialisation of SBS. We publish some of those comments below and invite all bloggers who support Mary Kostakidis to post [...]
Posted on 22 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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What Is Happening With The Petition?
In the first month since we launched the petition to protect SBS, stop the ads and maintain our multicultural public broadcaster funded fully by government, we clocked up some 1500 signatures. Everyone at www.SaveOurSBS.org has been very encouraged. We had had virtually no publicity until the last of these [...]
Posted on 16 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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SaveOurSBS has been granted permission to re-publish the story below in full by Michael Shmith. It originally appeared in The Age on 10 February 2007.
“Dear SBS: ad breaks just don’t hold water” by Michael Shmith
A good 25 years ago, when SBS was still called Channel 0 and ran series such as Three Women and their [...]
Posted on 13 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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I went along to the world premiere of the Steve Thomas documentary “Hope” on Friday as part of Melbourne International Film Festival. The documentary, which screened to a full house, tells largely in her own words the courageous and tragic story of the subject, Amal Basry an Iraqi survivor of the SIEV X sinking in [...]
Posted on 12 August, 2007 by Bill
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Sign the petition to protect SBS, stop the ads and maintain our multicultural public broadcaster funded fully by government. Click http://petition.saveoursbs.org and wait while you are redirected [...]
Posted on 7 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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SaveOurSBS has been granted permission to re-publish the story below in full by Quentin Dempster. It originally appeared in the July 2007 edition of the Walkley Magazine.
“Come Clean On Commercialisation” by Quentin Dempster
With the federal election campaign already in full swing Quentin Dempster previews the policy debate about the future of public broadcasting.
“Stiff and stiffer.” [...]
Posted on 7 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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On Sunday 5 August 2007 Save Our SBS handed out the double sided sosbs-petition-brochure.pdf (76kb) to the general public at Melbourne’s Federation Square. Many people showed enthusiastic interest. A media release of the event is available here: MEDIA RELEASE: Launch Web Petition To Stop Ads On SBS - Fed Square [...]
Posted on 5 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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DOWNLOAD the double sided sosbs-petition-brochure.pdf (76kb) here. Print it several times. Give it to your friends, retailers and others.
Posted on 5 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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Tell Others About Save Our SBS
DOWNLOAD the double sided sosbs-petition-brochure.pdf (76kb) here. Print it several times. Give it to your friends, retailers and others.
EMAIL the message below to all your friends and colleagues etc.
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Like most people, I am annoyed by the ads interrupting programs on SBS-TV. SBS is a public broadcaster, paid for [...]
Posted on 5 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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To download any of the Save Our SBS Media Releases and other publicity material published by us please look for the individual Posts reverse date order in the Category SOSBS Media Releases & Publicity Material. You might also like to look at the Category Help Promote Us on this web site.
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Posted on 5 August, 2007 by Save Our SBS
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