Australian Television Culture: Australian Cultural Studies series

Description

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 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.