Digital resources tagged with ‘broadcasting’

Aussie-made content

Australian film and television production is competing in a globalised world with big international production companies who market their product effectively to the world market.

Australian television drama

Australian content on television reflects our culture and our society. Mac Gudgeon celebrates the importance of Homicide in the history of Australian television production. Stuart Cunningham and Scott Goodings remember some of the popular dramas which showed Australians that they could love Australian programming.

Broadcast Media Ownership

Trevor Barr looks forward to the future of broadcasting and the internet in Australia.

Broadcaster control

Liz Jacka details the history of broadcaster control and the introduction of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board.

Broadcasts in cyberspace

Trevor Barr contrasts the privileged access to public television broadcasts with the free information exchange on the Internet. Stephen Mayne celebrates the value of ABC Online as a national resource and describes how activists have used the Internet to successfully broadcast their alternative views.

CAAMA & Indigenous Broadcasting

A broadcast studio at Radio Redfern in the late 80s. Christina Spurgeon talks about the importance of providing media services to remote Indigenous communities to the culture, identity and language of Aboriginal Australians.

Cash for comment

The 'Cash for Comment' affair in 1999 showed Australian audiences how corrupt and corruptible commercial broadcasting can be.

Censorship in Media

John Safran discusses censorship in Australian media.

Channel 9 and cricket

Self-confessed cricket lover Tim Bowden remembers when Channel 9 took over the cricket broadcasts from the ABC.

Cinesound Review

Ray Edmondson provides a history of Cinesound. Liz Jacka talks abut the differences between newsreels and today's TV news.

Community TV

The role of community television in general and its role in training TV personalities.

Content Quotas

The importance of content quotas in preserving and encouraging programs that represent Australian culture.

Creating an Australian Image

Stuart Cunningham explains how innovations in technology have transformed television content.

Early radio broadcasting

An excerpt from The Royal Empire Society Banquet. Liz Jacka describes the impact which radio broadcasts had on Australian life.

Effects of TV on radio

Tim Bowden describes how radio continued to prosper after the launch of television. John Safran reveals what attracts him to television production rather than radio. Corinne Grant talks about the link between the soap box and talkback radio.

Ethnic Community Broadcasting

Liz Jacka talks about how SBS was established to cater to minority communities as part of multicultural policy in the late 1970s.

Family radio

A young boy plays along with a musical game during one of the many ABC broadcasts for children. Children from around Australia tune into a kindergarten broadcast over the ABC. Tim Bowden remembers the ABC children's program The Argonauts.

First prime-time Soap Opera

Scott Goodings links the popularity of Number 96, first screened in 1972, with the post-Menzies liberalisation of society and media content.

Fox Movietone News

The importance in Australian news broadcasting history of Movietone and other newsreels.

Imparja: Indigenous Broadcasting

Imparja Television allows Indigenous communities to tell their stories and to communicate both with each other as well as the wider Australian community.

Independent media

Trevor Barr talks about independent media and behind the scenes at Radio Redfern as another show goes to air.

Indymedia

Stuart Cunningham talks about how and why Australian content has changed over the last 40 years.

Launch of Pay TV

The issues surrounding the establishment of Pay TV in Australia.

Launch of TV

Liz Jacka provides a brief history of the debate on how to establish television broadcasting in Australia. Tim Bowden recalls the enthusiasm with which Australians embraced television.

Menzies' Forgotten People Speech

With the “Forgotten People” radio talks, Robert Menzies begins reaching out, pitching himself in more domestic, family friendly, homely terms.

Mini-Series

The Australian film revival of the late 1970s and early 80s triggered a rise in quality of Australian TV drama and a 'high point' in the production of mini-series from the early 1980s to the early 90s.

New technologies create new TV formats

John Safran talks about the unique techniques, structure and ideas of reality TV.

News as Entertainment

John Safran talks about the use of 'doorstopping' in current affairs programs. Scott Goodings traces the celebrity and entertainment value of today's news broadcasts to the 'news wars' of the late 1980s.

Overview of Australian broadcast media

Stuart Cunningham gives an overview of core broadcast media.

Public broadcasting

Families tune in to a broadcast of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra over the ABC. Liz Jacka describes how the BBC's preference for 'high culture' programming influenced the nature of early broadcasts in Australia.

Race Around the World

Technology has revolutionised the nature of 'guerrilla filmmaking'.

Radio Soap Operas

Actors gather around a microphone to record an episode of radio soap The Country Hour. Tim Bowden reflects on how significant radio series were in Australia.

SBS Charter

John Safran, Megan Spencer and Scott Goodings discuss the nature of programming at SBS.

Sport - a spectacular television event

Behind the scenes of a transmission from Wembley Stadium, seen on Australian television.

The ABC Act

Behind the scenes of a radio broadcast and the role of the Postmaster-General Department personnel. Liz Jacka talks about how the Australian Broadcasting Commission was modeled on the BBC and the philosophy of its director John Reith.

The Media Machine

Electrified, digitalised then globalised, the media machine has created fantasy so spectacular that it makes the truth look badly acted.

The Ratings War

The ruthless world of commercial television and its chase for ratings is compared to the programming motivations of the public broadcaster.

The Youth Market

Tim Bowden reflects on the emergence of youth culture with the advent of rock'n'roll.

Triple J

Triple J takes popular culture from the big cities to young people across Australia.

TV Pop & Rock

The opening sequence from Six O'Clock Rock - Australia's first national teenage programme on the ABC. Scott Goodings gives a history of music shows on Australian television.

Video cassettes and Colour TV

Tim Bowden recalls the technical difficulties of getting programs to air in the early days of news and current affairs.

Web & Pod Casting

Scott Goodings describes the experience of watching TV via webcasts over the internet.