Australian Television Culture |
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Author:
| O'Regan, Tom |
ISBN: | 978-1-282-79674-4 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1993 |
Publisher: | Allen & Unwin
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $24.38 |
Book Description:
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Australian Television Culture offers a comprehensive analysis of the fundamental changes to Australian television during the 1980s and early 1990s. It provides a substantial treatment of the significance of multicultural and Aboriginal initiatives in television. Australian television was transformed during the 1980s. Cross-media ownership and audience-reach regulation redrew the map and business culture of television; leading business entrepreneurs acquired television stations and then...
More DescriptionAustralian Television Culture offers a comprehensive analysis of the fundamental changes to Australian television during the 1980s and early 1990s. It provides a substantial treatment of the significance of multicultural and Aboriginal initiatives in television. Australian television was transformed during the 1980s. Cross-media ownership and audience-reach regulation redrew the map and business culture of television; leading business entrepreneurs acquired television stations and then sold them in the bust of the late 1980s; and new television services were developed for non-English-speaking and Aboriginal viewers. Tracing the links between local, regional, national and international television services, Tom O'Regan builds a picture of Australian television. He argues that we are not just an outpost of the US networks, and that we have a distinct television culture of our own.