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July 06, 2004
From the horse's mouth
The
United Nations has its own news service for those who want to keep track of its doings. News is available in print, radio, TV and video and digital images. See the range of offerings at
http://www.un.org/av/.
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May 05, 2004
Not over yet
They aren't giving up on the
Alan Jones/Telstra issue at the
Communications Law Centre at UNSW. While the Centre welcomes the ABA's recent report on the issue -- for those who haven't seen it, it's at
http://www.aba.gov.au/radio/investigations/projects/telstra-2gb/documents/Jones_Telstra_2GBReport.pdf --
Derek Wilding, Director of the Centre, wants some matters cleared up. Read the letter he has sent to the ABA (
www.aba.gov.au/) at
http://www.comslaw.org.au/publications/pub56.pdf. The ABA's report, entitled
Investigation relating to sponsorship of the Alan Jones Program on Radio 2GB pursuant to an Agreement between Telstra Corporation and Macquarie Radio Network Pty Ltd, is 71 pages long. You'd think they could get matters clearer with that many pages to play with.
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June 24, 2003
Get the picture
Moving History is a new site that provides a guide to the
United Kingdom's twelve public sector moving image archives. Use the site to see what's in the different archive collections. There are more than 100 film and video clips available to give a taste of what's in store. The Moving History site is at
http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/
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June 19, 2003
Digital TV and media ownership
The
Parliamentary Library has issued an e-brief on
digital television and datacasting before as well as one on
media ownership regulation in Australia. Both have now been updated so deserve a fresh look as some of the issues have changed. The digital TV one is at
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/INTGUIDE/SP/Digital_television.htm and the media ownership one is at
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/INTGUIDE/SP/media_regulations.htm.
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June 02, 2003
Media ownership
With the
US FCC set to change US media law, it is timely to see the effects of deregulation elsewhere.
Canada deregulated its media 20 years ago, and
Online Journalism Review has a piece about it at
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/law/1054219939.php. In another
OJR piece, columnist
Mark Glaser sees the FCC's
Review of the Commission's Broadcast Ownership Rules and Other Rules Adopted Pursuant to Section 202 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as a boost for online media. Read his thoughts (and link to the FCC's report) at
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1054167431.php.
Poynter has a
5-minute guide to what the FCC's proposed changes mean at
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=35642.
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May 27, 2003
Media ownership in the US
Wired News has a simple Q&A today to help people understand the US Federal Communications Commission's proposals to change media ownership laws in the US. The story reads: "
Current rules ban mergers between major television networks -- NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox -- and limit the number of television and radio stations that a company can own in a market. The rules prohibit any company from owning television stations that reach more than 35 percent of U.S. households, or owning a newspaper and a radio or television station in the same city." Read the full piece at
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58993,00.html/wn_ascii.
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May 23, 2003
Who owns whom and what?
Information on
US media, telephone and cable companies can be found in the
Well Connected database, created by the US
Center for Public Integrity. The database is at
http://www.openairwaves.org/telecom/analysis/default.aspx and you can do a number of different searches
- Search Ownership Database by Area
- Search Ownership Database by Callsign
- Search Ownership Database by Company Name
- View an overall ownership database summary
- View top Industry Corporation lists
The database is part of the
Well Connected project by the Center, a three-year investigation into the United States telecommunications industry, where the three largest local phone companies control 83% of home telephone lines.
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May 20, 2003
Interactive TV, anyone?
If you have been wondering about the future of
digital television and interactive services, you might want to look for clues within the 40-page White Paper,
Future Opportunities for UK Telephony and interactive Services, produced by BT agilemedia, an arm of BT, (the UK equivalent to Telstra). You can get the full report at
http://www.agile-media.co.uk/mc_downloads.htm. The report covers what interactive business opportunities companies can exploit in fixed and mobile telephony, as well as online.
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December 10, 2002
New Zealand Television - back to tight regulation?
The Institute for Social Research has published a new Working Paper called
Television Reform in New Zealand: Broadcasting Blues or Blue Sky? by Marion Jacka. It covers NZ government attempts to renew intervention in broadcasting markets after the ill effects of earlier deregulation. Find the report at
http://www.sisr.net/publications/workingpapers/No7_MJ_final.PDF.
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December 06, 2002
The ABC at seventy
Ken Inglis examines the health of Aunty after seventy years at
http://www.apo.org.au/webboard/items/00181.shtml.
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