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book		Breaking up the ABC / Glyn Davis Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1988. Call No: 19ABC DAV Author: Davis, Glyn Source: AT Place: Sydney Publisher: Allen and Unwin PubDate: 1988 PhysDes: 150 pages ; 22 cm Subject: AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION; FUNDING. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT AID. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT CONTROL, TV. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS. AUSTRALIA; LAW AND TV. AUSTRALIA; LEGISLATION. AUSTRALIA; PROGRAMME CONTENT. AUSTRALIA; PUBLIC BROADCASTING. AUSTRALIA; SPECIAL BROADCASTING SERVICE; STATE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Summary: "The life and works of 'Aunty', the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, continue to be the subject of public debate and often heated controversy, but they are seldom analysed in any depth. In this book Glyn Davis sets out to take the ABC apart, layer by layer, to reveal the contradictions in purpose and form which bedevil Australia's public broadcasting network. Emphasising the interplay between the ABC and its social and political context, Breaking Up the ABC subjects the recent internal reforms to careful scrutiny. Will these reforms end 'Aunty's' perennial difficulties? Or is the organisation doomed to permanent crisis? Can the corporation, as David Hill hopes, win back an audience and the political support crucial to its continuing existence? Having broken up the institution, how should the pieces be rearranged? This book offers new combinations to ensure the continuing viability of public broadcasting in Australia."--BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes list of abbreviations, bibliographic references and index -- cover illustration and design by John Windus ISBN: 0043370047 Donation: Donated by Mike Counihan More info
book		Broadcast wars : the money, the ego, the power behind your remote control / written by Michael Bodey Sydney: Hachette Australia, 2011. Call No: 20(94) BOD Author: Bodey, Michael Source: AT Place: Sydney Publisher: Hachette Australia PubDate: 2011 PhysDes: 327 p. ; 24 cm Subject: BROADCASTING; BROADCASTING. AUSTRALIA; PROGRAMME CONTENT. AUSTRALIA; RATING FOR TV. AUSTRALIA; RATINGS. AUSTRALIA; TELEVISION; TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA Summary: "This is an explosive look at the recent tumultuous years in the boardrooms and on the studio floors of Australian television. As the Nine and Seven networks traded blows, new technologies emerged and old personalities and management clung on for dear life, everyone fastened their seatbelts for a bumpy ride. From booze buses to ambulance chasing, mirrorballs to hotplates, from Sunrise to Today, Broadcast Wars gives us a fascinating insight into major media events, boardroom stoushes and fading stars' diva-like demands. Michael Bodey fearlessly analyses the personalities we love (and love to hate), the genres that came and went, and the machinations behind MasterChef, Dancing With The Stars, Underbelly, Packed To The Rafters and all the shows we love to watch and talk about. Broadcast Wars exposes the egos, the money and the powre manipulating our remote controls. ' -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307- 311) and index ISBN: 9780733627767 Contents: -- prologue -- one : Seven on the skids -- two: Reality is king -- three: Sunrise for seven -- four: Seven finally hits an ace -- five: An emperor returns to nine -- six: Eddie arrives -- seven: From Beaconsfield to Lausanne -- eight: The turkey slap -- nine: The war intensifies -- ten: Sea water, cops and dirty Melbourne crims -- eleven: The barbarians grab the remote -- twelve: the format wars -- thirteen: Seven ate nine -- fourteen: Multichanelling -- fifteen: MasterChef and the new nice -- sixteen: Affidavits at ten paces -- author's note -- notes -- bibliography -- acknowledgements -- index -- More info
book		Child's Play : issues in Australian Children's Television 2013 2013. Call No: 410-053.2(94) CHI CorpAuthor: Screen Australia Source: AT PubDate: 2013 PhysDes: ca. 150 p. : ill. ; 30cm Subject: AUDIENCE RECEPTION; AUDIENCES; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; CHILDREN AND TV; CHILDREN AND THE MEDIA. AUSTRALIA; CHILDREN AND TV. AUSTRALIA; CHILDREN, EFFECTS OF TV ON; CHILDREN, EFFECTS OF TV ON. AUSTRALIA; CHILDREN, PROGRAMMES FOR; CHILDREN, PROGRAMMES FOR. AUSTRALIA; PROGRAMME CONTENT; PROGRAMME CONTENT. AUSTRALIA; PROGRAMMING. AUSTRALIA; FINANCING; FINANCING. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION; PRODUCTION, TV. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA Summary: 'Screen Australia and the Australian Children's Television Foundation have undertaken this project to increase understanding of how children engage with screen content, and the unique challenges involved in financing, producing and scheduling childrens' programs in today's rapidly evolving media landscape. The project draws together previously availalable data and insights from new research, building on issues raised in the Screen Australia publications Beyond the Box Office, What to watch? and Convergence 2011: Australian Content State of Play." -- Introduction Notes: This report is a summary of three briefing papers which can be accessed at www.screenaustralia.gov.au/childsplay ISBN: 9781920998257 Contents: -- introduction -- key findings -- focus 1: the audience -- child audience attitudes and behaviours: What's On survey -- viewing patterns: ratings analysis -- focus 2: the broadcasters -- broadcaster programming strategies: schedule analysis -- on-air promotion of children's programs: Program breaks analysis -- focus 3: the producers -- Financing and production of children's content: Data from Screen Australia's Drama Report -- Challenges and opportunities for producers: Producers' survey -- conclusion -- appendicies -- appendix A: Children's Television Standards (CTS) -- appendix B: International context -- More info
book		Elements of broadcasting economics / Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1993. Call No: 203.1(94) BUR Author: Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics Source: AT Place: Canberra Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: 239 p. ; 25 cm Series: Report (Australia. Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics) ; 83 Subject: ADVERTISING. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCE RECEPTION. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION; BROADCASTING. AUSTRALIA; ECONOMICS AND TV. AUSTRALIA; PROGRAMME CONTENT. AUSTRALIA; PUBLIC BROADCASTING. AUSTRALIA; RADIO BROADCASTING. AUSTRALIA; SPECIAL BROADCASTING SERVICE Summary: "This report is part of an extensive Bureau program of research to study the operational performance of the [broadcasting] industry and the effects of the substantial technological and structural changes facing it. This report concentrates on the general economic aspects of broadcasting and the performance of commercial radio." - FROM INTRODUCTION ISBN: 0644324546 ISSN: 1034-4152 Donation: donated by Mick Counihan Contents: Foreword -- Abstract -- Summary -- Introduction -- Advertising and media competition -- Broadcasters and market behaviour -- Provision of broadcasting services -- The Australian Broadcasting Corporation -- The Special Broadcasting Service -- Community broadcasting -- Commerical Radio: ownership and competition -- Financial performance of coimmercial radio -- Appendix I / empirical analysis of relationship between advertising expenditure and some makjor economic indicators -- Appendix II / a chronology of national broadcasting services in Australia -- Appendix III / characteristics of commercial radio services -- Appendix IV / data sources used in assessing the financial performance of commercial radio -- Glossary -- References -- Abbreviations More info
book		The making of a television series : a case study in the sociology of culture / Philip Elliott London: Constable and Co., 1972. Call No: 761 ELL Author: Elliott, Philip Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Constable and Co. PubDate: 1972 PhysDes: x, 180p. ; 22 cm Series: Communication and Society Subject: PRODUCTION; DIRECTION; PROGRAMME CONTENT; SOCIOLOGY AND TV; NATURE OF PREJUDICE, THE [TV](UK, 1968) Summary: "This blow-by-blow account of the making of television documentary series, The Nature of Prejudice, traces the evolution of the programmes through all the processes of selection from the emergence of an idea, through the recruitment of the production team and the collection of a wide range of material to their final realisation in the studio, The results of the study are surprising and the implications disturbing. Mr Elliot shows how haphazard the process of programme production is and how much it is constrained by the social and organisational framework in which it takes place. Of absorbing interest to all sociologists and students of the mass media as well as the general public, this book raises the challenging question of whether it is inevitable that television should be a reflective medium, or whether it can be a vehicle for the communication of new ideas and experiences. " -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Includes bibliography. ISBN: 0094584001 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 Contents: -- acknowledgements -- introduction -- 1: a case study of the television production -- 2: starting work on the series -- 3: collecting programme material -- 4: preparing programme outlines and scripts -- 5: the presenter and the studio guests -- 6: the audience and the nature of prejudice (by Roger. L. Brown) -- 7: the organization of television production -- 8: mass communication - a contradiciton in terms? -- appendix A programme outlines -- appenidx B the research method -- index -- URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:12:56 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		The Media reader / edited by Manuel Alvarado and John O. Thompson London: BFI Pub., 1990. Call No: 401.1 MED Author: Alvarado, Manuel; Thompson, John O Place: London Publisher: BFI Pub. PubDate: 1990 PhysDes: 364 p. ; 24 cm Subject: MEDIA; ADVERTISING; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL ISSUES AND TV; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; BLACK FILMMAKERS. UK; POPULISM AND TV. AUSTRALIA; PROGRAMME CONTENT; BRAZIL; UNITED KINGDOM; SEX IN FILMS. UK; CLASS AND THE CINEMA. UK; REALISM IN FILMS. UK; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND TV; NEWSREELS. GERMANY; EL SALVADOR ON TV; DETECTIVES ON TV; MELODRAMA; VIDEO GAMES; BROADCASTING. UK; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; GANDHI ((UK, Richard Attenborough, 1982); DALLAS [TV] (US, 1978-91); DYNASTY [TV] (US, 1981-89); MOONLIGHTING [TV] (US, 1985-89) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0851702589; 0851702597 (pbk) LON: 6923029 More info
Levy Collection book		Outside interference : The politics of Australian broadcasting / Richard Harding Melbourne: Sun Books, 1979. Call No: 19AUS HAR Author: Harding, Richard Source: AT Place: Melbourne Publisher: Sun Books PubDate: 1979 PhysDes: viii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Subject: AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING COMMISSION; AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING TRIBUNAL; BROADCASTING. AUSTRALIA; ECONOMICS AND TV. AUSTRALIA; LEGISLATION. AUSTRALIA; PROGRAMME COMPLAINTS; PROGRAMME CONTENT. AUSTRALIA; PUBLIC BROADCASTING. AUSTRALIA; RADIO AND TV. AUSTRALIA; SPORT ON TV. AUSTRALIA; STATE AND THE MEDIA. AUSTRALIA; STATE AND TV. AUSTRALIA; TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA; FRASER, MALCOLM; GYNGELL, BRUCE; PACKER, KERRY; ALVIN PURPLE (AT, Tim Burstall, 1973) Summary: "In recent years the Australian Broadcasting Commission has been racked with storm and strife. The public mud-slinging and political gesturing that has kept it in the news have been accompanied by the simmering background of internal wars that affect the media monolith. Professor Richard Harding has been a man inside the ABC - among the men with the hottest seats and the best views of the bloody circus, the Commissioners. His brilliant observation of the events that have occurred in his time at the ABC gives a fresh insight into many of the issues that made headlines - the Bland affair, the staff commissioner, the continuing crisis and cries of "bias" in current affairs programmes, 2JJ and access radio, FM, the department of the media, the sports coverage tangle, etc. The effects of politics and government funding on the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and the role of the ABC as an opinion maker are seen in a realistic light from the centre of affairs." - BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index ISBN: 0725103159 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		Seven action packed nights : a police story / John P. Murray North Ryde, NSW: School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, 1976. Call No: 410(94) MUR Author: Murray, John P. Source: AT Place: North Ryde, NSW Publisher: School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University PubDate: 1976 PhysDes: 8 pages ; 26 cm Series: Television and socialisation research reports; TVS-1976/C; The mass media and social behaviour project Subject: AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; PROGRAMME CHOICE; PROGRAMME CONTENT. AUSTRALIA; TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA; VIOLENCE ON TV; TELEVISION. USA; CRIME ON TV; POLICE ON TV More info
book		Some people watch anything / Susan Kippax and John P. Murray North Ryde, NSW: School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, 1976. Call No: 410(94) KIP Author: Kippax, Susan; Murray, John P. Source: AT Place: North Ryde, NSW Publisher: School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University PubDate: 1976 PhysDes: 8 pages ; 26 cm Series: Television and socialisation research reports; TVS-1976/F; The mass media and social behaviour project Subject: AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; PROGRAMME CHOICE; PROGRAMME CONTENT. AUSTRALIA; TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA Notes: Reprinted from New Journalist, no. 20, 1975, 18-19 More info
book		Television and children : some problems in studying the impact of televised violence / John P. Murray North Ryde, NSW: School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, 1976. Call No: 410(94) MUR Author: Murray, John P. Source: AT Place: North Ryde, NSW Publisher: School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University PubDate: 1976 PhysDes: 11 pages ; 26 cm Series: Television and socialisation research reports; TVS-1976/3; The mass media and social behaviour project Subject: AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; PROGRAMME CHOICE; PROGRAMME CONTENT. AUSTRALIA; TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA; VIOLENCE ON TV. AUSTRALIA; CHILDREN AND TV More info
newspaper article		TV drama's gone to the dogs (and cats) in Daily Telegraph (31/08/2015) p.16 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DRAMAS. AUSTRALIA Author: Molloy, Shannon PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: DRAMAS. AUSTRALIA; ANIMALS ON TV; PROGRAMME CONTENT. AUSTRALIA Summary: Discussion with various actors and producers about the recent high ratings on Australian tv for shows made from internet content about funny cats and dogs. Talk of production costs, ratings, and the Australian tv drama industry are in this article More info
book		Using television : programme content and need gratification / Susan Kippax and John P. Murray North Ryde, NSW: School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, [1974]. Call No: 410(94) KIP Author: Kippax, Susan; Murray, John P. Source: AT Place: North Ryde, NSW Publisher: School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University PubDate: [1974] PhysDes: 33 pages ; 26 cm Series: Television and socialisation research reports; TVS-1976/4; The mass media and social behaviour project Subject: AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; NEWS PROGRAMMES. AUSTRALIA; PROGRAMME CHOICE; PROGRAMME CONTENT. AUSTRALIA; TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA Summary: "It is shown that audience members actively select amongst available programs on television. This selection is based upon the social role and situational characteristics of the viewer and it is also directly related to the reasons given by viewers for watching television. Patterns of program selection are related to three clusters of needs and reasons. The two most important of these are composed of needs relating to information and diversion. The least important cluster is concerned with the self and social contact. Escape and diversion are needs satisfied by almost any programme; selection is minimal by those viewers expressing these needs. Information needs are best satisfied by news and other informational programmes, while social and self needs are best satisfied by quiz and variety programs, popular drama and movies." - ABSTRACT Notes: Date of publication sourced from Trove More info
journal article		What have we done to TV? in Lumiere (August, 1972) iss.15 p.28-29 Author: Rosenthal, Newman PhysDes: Article Subject: AUDIENCE RECEPTION. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION; INDUSTRY, TV. AUSTRALIA; PROGRAMME COMPLAINTS; PROGRAMME CONTENT. AUSTRALIA; PROGRAMME POLICY. AUSTRALIA; TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA Summary: Lamentation on the state of Australian television and its overdependence on overseas program supplies More info

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