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Save Our SBS has launched a campaign to see SBS better funded in the 2009 triennial federal Budget and as part of an ongoing objective that would enable SBS to be the public, non-commercial, multicultural ‘special’ broadcaster it once was. The Budget is the time to right recent past policies and prohibit the interruption of programs for advertisements. Save Our SBS has been lobbying for sometime with the support of thousands of concerned persons for this change followed by an eventual phasing out of all commercials on the SBS. On 5 August 2008, Save Our SBS Inc made 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 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 One Minute Survey commenced in October 2008 and is now closed. The results of the survey are below. The total number of people who participated in the survey was: 1733 participants. 1) In the past six months, how often did 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. 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 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 The Minister responsible for SBS, Senator Stephen Conroy wrote to Save Our SBS on 26 August 2008 in response to the petition that we gave to his staff on 8 April 2008. Senator Conroy apologised for his late reply and wrote. SBS is one of Australia’s most important public institutions. The Australian Government recognises the importance of its role as a national public broadcaster, catering for diverse interests in the Australian community and reflecting Australia’s culturally diverse society. Issues of funding and independence are crucial to SBS Triennial Funding Submission (for 2009-2010; 2010-2011; 2011-2012) as proposed by Save Our SBS Inc submitted to Senator Stephen Conroy 5 August 2008 SBS funding for the next triennium – Executive Summary By any reasonable measure the Special Broadcasting Service Corporation (SBS) has been under funded. SBS total revenue (for both its radio and television services) is less than one fifth of the average commercial television station in Australia. The SBS receives about one quarter of the funding that the ABC receives from government and the total combined public funding for both broadcasters is less than half In 2007 SBS-TV forced almost 6000 commercial breaks into some 2000 program broadcasts that were never intended to have commercial breaks. Programs made for non-commercial networks, such as the BBC, were interrupted for ads when screened on SBS-TV. In the public interest, Save Our SBS is publishing the times to air and title of every program where SBS-TV forced an interruption for an ad break, when one was never intended by the program as originally supplied to SBS. Save Our SBS is of the opinion that such breaks were hardly natural. A log of the full list of A few days ago SBS-TV re-branded itself. Their logo changed. SBS will continue to emphasise its commercial approach but with a new look. This is the second time SBS has re-branded in a little over 12 months. Just over a year ago SBS World News Australia changed the set and adopted a more tabloid and commercial style of news presentation. Long time news presenter Mary Kostakidis ended up departing the broadcaster. The idea of a multicultural, non commercial public broadcaster is now but a memory of the past. Will there be nothing special remaining? The re-branding this time |
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