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Future of SBS: government seeks public submissions

Save Our SBS, Wednesday, 22 October, 2008

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 online submission form.

We will make a submission and we strongly encourage you to make one too before 12 December 2008 at the Department’s online form. See URL under the box of our suggested questions below.

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Wednesday, 22 October, 2008 | Category: News | Comments are closed

The SBS Must Be Special

Save Our SBS, Sunday, 19 October, 2008

A PDF of the statement below may be viewed at: https://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 issue in the mid-seventies, but recently the special nature of the SBS has been under threat.

Since the introduction of sponsorship and advertising to SBS-TV in the 1990s the

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Sunday, 19 October, 2008 | Category: Campaigns, News | Comments are closed

The SBS Must Be Special media release

Save Our SBS, Sunday, 19 October, 2008

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” was prepared by Save Our SBS (www.SaveOurSBS.org). In addition to Mr Fraser it has been endorsed by the following:

Ethnic Community Leaders: Professor Mary Kalantzis Dr Heinrich Stefanik, OAM, former Secretary, Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia George Zangalis, President,

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Sunday, 19 October, 2008 | Category: Media Releases | Comments are closed

No Ads on SBS – one minute survey

Save Our SBS, Monday, 13 October, 2008

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 end of the survey period will be published on the SaveOurSBS.org web site and may be provided to politicians and media outlets.

Personal details of the participants will remain confidential and will not be handed over to

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Monday, 13 October, 2008 | Category: Campaigns | Comments are closed