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
