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journal article		The airways belong to you? in Lumiere (March-April, 1972) iss.14 p.28-29 Author: Webb, Dan PhysDes: Article Subject: BROADCASTING RIGHTS. AUSTRALIA; LEGISLATION. AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP TV. AUSTRALIA; PUBLIC BROADCASTING. AUSTRALIA Summary: An address given to the Television Society in Melbourne by Dan Web on the increasingly restricted ownership of the mass media in Australia and how it compares to the US. More info
Interim book		Broadcasting : draft report Melbourne: Productivity Commission, 1999. Call No: 204(94) AUS CorpAuthor: Productivity Commission Source: AT Place: Melbourne Publisher: Productivity Commission PubDate: 1999 Subject: GOVERNMENT CONTROL. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, TV. AUSTRALIA; BROADCASTING. AUSTRALIA; DIGITAL BROADCASTING. AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND TV; LICENCES. AUSTRALIA More info
book		Commercial media in Australia : economics, ownership, technology and regulation / Allan Brown St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1986. Call No: 205.2(94) BRO Author: Brown, Allan Place: St Lucia, Queensland Publisher: University of Queensland Press PubDate: 1986 PhysDes: xii, 240 p. ; 22 cm. Series: University of Queensland Press scholar's library Subject: MEDIA; MEDIA AUSTRALIA; TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA; RADIO AND TV. AUSTRALIA; PRESS AND TV; OWNERSHIP AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP, TV. AUSTRALIA Summary: This book is intended for teachers and students of courses on media and communications at tertiary institutions, as well as for the general reader with an interest in Australian media policy. It revises and updates my PhD thesis, which was submitted at the University of Queensland in 1981. As far as possible the discussion is non-technical, and plain English has been used instead of economic jargon. The study is contained, however, within a theoretical framework which defines the nature of the economic analysis of the Australian media industries and which provides the basis for the examination of policy issues. Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0702218391 Contents: 1. Economics of Newspaper Publishing -- 2. The Australian Newspaper Industry -- 3. Economics of Broadcasting -- 4. The Australian Radio Broadcasting Industry -- 5. The Australian Television Broadcasting Industry -- 6. Cross-Media Ownership and Control -- 7. Technological Developments in Television -- 8. Options for Change ID2: 357 More info
newspaper article		Corbett on mergers, mistakes, News in Australian Financial Review [Marketing and Media] (23/03/2015) p.30 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; FAIRFAX Author: White, Dominic PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: FAIRFAX; MEDIA AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA; CORBETT, ROGER Summary: Chair of Fairfax Media, Roger Corbett, discusses the future of Fairfax and the general state of media ownership and business in Australia. More info
book		Corporate cannibals : The taking of Fairfax / Colleen Ryan & Glenn Burge Port Melbourne: Mandarin Australia, 1993. Call No: 19 FAI RYA Author: Ryan, Colleen -- Burge, Glenn Place: Port Melbourne Publisher: Mandarin Australia PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: x,459p.,[16]p. of plates : ports. ; 20cm. Subject: FAIRFAX; PACKER, KERRY; NINE NETWORK; OWNERSHIP TV. AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA; MURDOCH, RUPERT Notes: Includes index ISBN: 1863302492 Contents: Prologue -- Battling the bondholders -- Warwick faces failure -- The end of a dynasty -- The sharks are circling -- Malcolm heads to court -- A touch of the blarney -- The Savoy: Tourang is born -- The politics of print -- The launch of Tourang -- The Packer factor -- A dash to Ireland -- Courting Canberra -- Goodbye Trevor -- Tourang under siege -- Packer hits back -- Goodbye Malcom -- Goodbye Kerry -- The battle for Broadway -- The bid deadline -- And the winner is... -- Epilogue More info
book		The discussion paper on review of broadcasting regulation : a critique / report from the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Transport, Communications and Infrastructure Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1989. Call No: 205.1(94) HOU Author: Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives. Standing Committee on Transport, Communications and Infrastructure; Saunderson, John Source: AT Place: Canberra Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service PubDate: 1989 PhysDes: 42 p. ; 25 cm Series: Parliamentary paper (Australia. Parliament) ; no. 194/ 1989 Subject: AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING TRIBUNAL; BROADCASTING. AUSTRALIA; BROADCASTING RIGHTS. AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP TV. AUSTRALIA; LICENSING LAWS. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT CONTROL, TV. AUSTRALIA Notes: Also titled Review of broadcasting regulation : discussion paper ISBN: 0644105984 Contents: Summary -- Scope of the legislation -- Objectives of the Act -- Planning of services -- Allocation of licenses -- Program content -- Performance review -- Sanctions -- Ownership changes -- legalism and inquiry procedures and the appeals process More info
book		Future directions for commercial television : volume 1: report / Department of Communications Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1985. Call No: 201.3(94) DEP Author: Australia. Department of Communications. Forward Development Unit Source: AT Place: Canberra Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service PubDate: 1985 PhysDes: 121 p. ; 25 cm Subject: AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; BROADCASTING. AUSTRALIA; BROADCASTING RIGHTS. AUSTRALIA; COMMERCIAL TV. AUSTRALIA; FINANCING. AUSTRALIA; LICENSING LAWS. AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP TV. AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA; REGIONAL TELEVISION; TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA Summary: Department of Communications report on the Government's announced intention to proveed to the progressive equalisation of broadcasting services, and how this will effect both "network" and "regional" television services ISBN: 064442648 Donation: donated by Mick Counihan Contents: Introduction -- Approaches to equlisation in regional areas -- Sample scenarios -- Structural issues - Program distribution arrangements -- Structural issues - owndership or control -- Financial implications of equalisation -- Planning issues -- Additional services for remote areas -- Policy issues arising from equalisation More info
book		The media in Australia : industries, texts, audiences / edited by Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner St Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1997. Call No: 401(94) MED Author: Cunningham, Stuart; Turner, Graeme Edition: 2nd ed Place: St Leonards, N.S.W. Publisher: Allen & Unwin PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: xviii, 490 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: MEDIA. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, TV. AUSTRALIA; ADVERTISING. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; PAY TV. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION, TV. AUSTRALIA; NEWS PROGRAMMES. AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA; POLITICS AND TV. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT CONTROL. AUSTRALIA; VIOLENCE ON TV. AUSTRALIA; DRAMAS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN AND TV. AUSTRALIA; HOME VIDEO. AUSTRALIA; RATINGS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING TRIBUNAL; COUNTRY PRACTICE, A [TV] (AT, 1981-1993, 1994); PERFECT MATCH [TV] (AT, 1984-89?) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 441-467 ISBN: 1864482737 LON: 12826003 More info
newspaper article		Media laws for the real world in The Australian (8/05/2017) p.13 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; STATE AND TV. AUSTRALIA Author: Editorial PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: STATE AND TV. AUSTRALIA; BROADCASTING. AUSTRALIA; BROADCASTING RIGHTS. AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA; LICENCES. AUSTRALIA Summary: Praising the new media law reforms put forth by the government. These look set to pass Federal parliament shortly More info
Levy Collection book		Media mates : carving up Australia's media / Paul Chadwick Melbourne: Macmillan, 1989. Call No: 203.5(94) CHA Author: Chadwick, Paul Source: AT Place: Melbourne Publisher: Macmillan PubDate: 1989 PhysDes: 20 cm ; 264 p. Subject: MEDIA. AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA ISBN: 0732900905 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		Media ownership in Australia, 10 April 1997 / a conference organised by the Communications Law Centre and Clayton Utz in association with CAMLA Sydney, N.S.W.: Communications Law Centre, 1997. Call No: 205.2(94) COM CorpAuthor: Communications Law Centre (N.S.W.); Clayton Utz (Firm); Communications and Media Law Association (Australia) Place: Sydney, N.S.W. Publisher: Communications Law Centre PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: 108 p. ; 30 cm Subject: MEDIA. AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA; POLITICS AND TV. AUSTRLALIA Notes: At head of title : "A Communications Law Centre Conference"; "Conference Papers" - Cover; Communications Law Centre, The White House, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052 ISBN: 1875535178 LON: abn97148705; 13197265 More info
newspaper article		Murdoch's 21st Century Fox in Australian Financial Review [Companies and Markets] (24/02/2015) p.11 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY FOX Author: Thompson, Sarah; Chessell, James; Mitchell, Jake PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY FOX; FOXTEL; NETWORK TEN; OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA Summary: Looking at 21st Century's bid to merge with Discovery Communications and at how that would effect the attempt by Foxtel to gain a larger share of Ten Network Holdings in Australia. More info
newspaper article		OK then, who wants to make a deal? in The Australian (23/10/2017) p.26 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA Author: Mccauley, Dana PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA Summary: Australia's media companies are watching each other closely this week after newly relaxed ownership rules freed up proprietors to strike deals that could transform the $16 billion industry. The long-awaited ownership reforms, approved on October 17 after finally passing the House of Representatives, do away with the two-out-of-three rule that prevented media companies from owning a newspaper business, a television station and a radio station in one territory. More info
subject clippings file		OWNERSHIP AUSTRALIA Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: OWNERSHIP AUSTRALIA More info
book		Party games : Australian politicians and the media from war to dismissal / Bridget Griffen-Foley Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2003. Call No: 411.1 GRI Author: Griffen-Foley, Bridget Source: AT Place: Melbourne Publisher: Text Publishing PubDate: 2003 PhysDes: [xi], 292 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm Subject: MEDIA; MEDIA AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP; OWNERSHIP TV. AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; MENZIES, ROBERT; MURDOCH, KEITH; PACKER, FRANK; MURDOCH, RUPERT Summary: "In 'Party games' Bridget Griffen-Foley takes us from the birth of the public relations industry and its triumphant reinvention of Robert Gordon Menzies to the Liberal implosion of the early seventies; from the king-making efforts of Frank Packer to Rupert Murdoch's contentious role in the Dismissal. Describing the pivotal interventions of press barons and politicians in each other's business, she shows how politicians learnt to use the media while the media were learning to shape government..." -- Book cover Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [270] - 284 ISBN: 1877008648 Contents: Introduction -- 1: The Melbourne men: Bob Menzies and Keith Murdoch -- 2: Personality politics: Menzies versus Evatt -- 3: Blue suede shoes: politicians discover television -- 4: The Labor ward: the Fairfax dynasty and the 1961 election -- 5: The utility men: The Packers and New South Wales politics -- 6: King-making: Frank Packer, Alan Reid and the Liberal leadership -- 7: Barrackers, brokers and backers: the media and the 1972 election -- 8: King-breaking: Rupert Murdoch and the dismissal -- Epilogue More info
newspaper article		Ten deal could give News Corp 'too much power' in The Age (04/08/2015) p.23 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA Author: Mason, Max -- Stensholt, John PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: OWNERSHIP TV. AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA; NETWORK TEN; FOXTEL; NEWS CORPORATION; SPORT ON TV. AUSTRALIA Summary: Report on the proposed 15 per cent stake that Foxtel wishes to take into the Ten Network and its ramifications, particularly around sport coverage on the free to air networks More info
newspaper article		Three-way merger would change landscape in Australian Financial Review (04/01/2016) p.16 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; MEDIA. AUSTRALIA Author: White, Dominic PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: NINE NETWORK; FAIRFAX; SOUTHERN CROSS; MEDIA. AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP TV. AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA Summary: Speculation that the companies Fairfax Media, Nine Entertainment Co. and Southern Cross may try to merge in 2016 if current media ownership laws are relaxed More info

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