The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, is consulting the public on the future of Australia’s national broadcasters, the SBS & ABC. Comments from the public are welcome.
This may be a once in a lifetime opportunity to make your thoughts about SBS known directly to the Minister via the Departments [...]
Posted on 22 October, 2008 by Save Our SBS
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A PDF of the statement below may be viewed at: http://saveoursbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/the-sbs-must-be-special-signed.pdf
The SBS Must Be Special
The Special Broadcasting Service was established by the Fraser coalition government, building on the creation of the publicly funded multi-lingual radio stations 2EA and 3EA by the Whitlam government. ‘EA’ stood for Ethnic Australia.
Concrete government support for multiculturalism was a bi-partisan [...]
Posted on 19 October, 2008 by Save Our SBS
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Former Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, whose government established the Special Broadcasting Service, has been joined by ethnic community leaders and key figures from public life, literature and the arts in calling for the SBS to focus on the needs of viewers rather than on selling consumers to advertisers.
The statement, headed “The SBS Must Be Special” [...]
Posted on 19 October, 2008 by Darce Cassidy
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Save Our SBS is conducting a one minute survey at www.SaveOurSBS.org that seeks to find out peoples views in relation to SBS. The survey asks a series of multiple choice questions about advertising, programming and the Charter of SBS and seeks to find out what people think about the ‘commercialisation’ of SBS.
The data at the [...]
Posted on 13 October, 2008 by Save Our SBS
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