Save Our SBS, Thursday, 11 December, 2008
11 December 2008
To: The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Sent by email to: abcsbsreview@dbcde.gov.au
submission
THE ABC SBS REVIEW
A chronology of events: Public to Commercial
Since advertising was first allowed on the SBS in the early nineteen nineties, there has been a steady drift away from the original multicultural mandate of the SBS.
This was identified by Dr Chris Lawe Davies in a study of SBS output between 1975 and 1995 which found:
“An overview of the market and advertising research reports carried out for SBS between 1993 and 1994 confirms anecdotal accounts of the effects of advertising culture on
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Save Our SBS, Monday, 1 December, 2008
Save Our SBS conducted an online one minute multiple choice question survey about SBS. In addition to the nine multiple choice questions, we also asked for each persons post-code and provided an open ended comments box, for those who wanted to express concerns beyond the questions asked.
The survey commenced in October 2008 and is on-going at www.survey.saveoursbs.org
The results of the survey to date are below. This post will be updated periodically until the survey closes.
The total number of people who participated in the survey was: 1733 participants.
1) In the past six
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