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book		The Australian Broadcasting Tribunal children's television standards report and determination / David Jones, Chairman and Ken Archer, Vice-Chairman...[and four others] [1984]. Call No: 205-053.2(94) AUS Author: Jones, David; Archer, Ken; Weigall, Catharine; Armstrong, Mark; Watterson, Ray; James Bailey, Julie CorpAuthor: Australian Broadcasting Tribunal Source: AT PubDate: [1984] PhysDes: 92 leaves : 31 cm Subject: INDUSTRY, TV. AUSTRALIA; CHILDREN AND TV. AUSTRALIA; LAW AND TV. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING TRIBUNAL; RATING FOR TV. AUSTRALIA Summary: The report discusses children's television standards, including the amount of time allocated to children's viewing, including pre-school programs, specific time slots for children's programming, requirements for the amount of Australian content and scheduling of programs, restrictions on advertising during children's programs, and the need for quality drama programs for children. The Australian commercial television industry's opposition to the Children's Television Standards and the importance of regulating children's television programming are also covered in the report. Notes: Spiral bound; Includes determination and 3 attachments 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		Case studies in Australian media management / edited by Elizabeth More, Keith Smith Sydney: Macquarie University, Graduate School of Management, 1992. Call No: 401(94) CAS Author: More, Elizabeth; Smith, Keith (Keith R. A.) CorpAuthor: Australian Film, Television and Radio School; New South Wales Education and Training Foundation; Macquarie University. Graduate School of Management Place: Sydney Publisher: Macquarie University, Graduate School of Management PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: x, 204 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm Subject: TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA; PAY TV. AUSTRALIA; RATING FOR TV. AUSTRALIA; MEDIA. AUSTRALIA; PACKER, KERRY; BLACK, CONRAD; BLACK ROBE (CN/AT, Bruce Beresford, 1991) Notes: Published in association with the Australian Film, Television and Radio School and New South Wales Education and Training Foundation; Bibliography: p. 193-204 ISBN: 0858377756 (pbk.) LON: 9454276 More info
book		Exploring attitudes towards film, TV and video classifications : a marketing research report / prepared for the Office of Film and Literature Classication and Australian Broadcasting Tribunal by Frank Small & Associates [Sydney?: Frank Small & Associates], 1992. Call No: 414(94) EXP Place: [Sydney? Publisher: Frank Small & Associates] PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: 109 p. : ill. ; 30 cm Subject: AUDIENCE RECEPTION. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; LANGUAGE AND TV; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA; CENSORSHIP. AUSTRALIA; SEX AND THE CINEMA; CENSORSHIP TV. AUSTRALIA; SEX ON TV; CLASSIFICATION. AUSTRALIA; RATING FOR FILMS. AUSTRALIA; RATING FOR TV. AUSTRALIA Summary: A study attempting to understand the underlying attitudes held by members of the community to the depiction of sex, nudity, language, and violence on film, television and video. Survey was done with members of the public from Sydney and Dubbo, and includes questions regarding the context and viewing environment and classifications of films and tv shows and videos More info
book		Public attitudes to the classification of television programs / Australian Broadcasting Tribunal Research Branch Melbourne: Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, Research Branch, 1983. Call No: 441.1 AUS Source: AT Place: Melbourne Publisher: Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, Research Branch PubDate: 1983 PhysDes: 88, 14 p. ; 26 cm Series: Australian Broadcasting Tribunal research report Subject: RATING FOR TV. AUSTRALIA; PROGRAMMING. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCE RECEPTION. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCES. TV. AUSTRALIA Summary: Survey of television viewers in Melbourne and Swan Hill about the classification rating given of various types/genres of shows and about the shows that they felt were suitable/unsuitable for viewing by children and young people. Contents: Introduction -- Explanaory notes -- Description of the sample -- Summary -- Discussion and conclusions -- Acceptability of material -- Suitability of programs for young audiences -- Knowledge and use of the symbols -- Special issues; the news; program promotions; late night explicit programming -- Television use and attitudes -- Appendices -- Method -- Description of programs and movies -- Questionnaire More info
book		R classified programs on pay TV : report to the parliament of Australia / Australian Broadcasting Authority [Sydney]: [The Authority], 1994. Call No: 441.1(94) ABA Source: AT Place: [Sydney] Publisher: [The Authority] PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: xiv, 201 p. : ill., form ; 25 cm Subject: RATING FOR TV. AUSTRALIA; CENSORSHIP TV. AUSTRALIA; RATINGS FOR TV AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION. AUSTRALIA; PAY TV. AUSTRALIA; STATE AND TV. AUSTRALIA Summary: The findings of the Australian Broadcasting Authority commissioned research on community reception of R rated programs and the suitability of them to be screened on subscription based television (Pay TV) Notes: November 1994. -- Bibliography: p. 221 ISBN: 0642213445 Contents: Executive Summary -- Introduction -- 1. Research on community standards - background and design -- 2. Research on community standards - findings -- 3. Disabling devices -- 4. Recommendation -- Appendices -- References More info
book		Rating the Audience : the business of media / by Mark Balnaves and Tom O'Regan with Ben Goldsmith London ; New York: Bloomsbury, 2011. Call No: 410 (41/73/94) BAL Author: Balnaves, Mark; O'Regan, Tom; Goldsmith, Ben Source: UK/US Place: London ; New York Publisher: Bloomsbury PubDate: 2011 PhysDes: xvi, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: MEDIA; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; AUDIENCE RESEARCH; AUDIENCES; AUDIENCES THEORY; AUDIENCES USA; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCES. UK; RATING FOR TV; RATING FOR TV. AUSTRALIA; RATINGS. AUSTRALIA; RATINGS. USA Summary: "Knowing, measuring and understanding media audiences has become a multi-billion dollar business. But the convention that underpins that business, audience ratings, is in crisis. Rating the Audience is the first book to show why and how audience ratings research became a convention, an agreement, and the first to interrogate the ways that agreement is now under threat. Taking a historical approach, the book looks at the evolution of audience ratings and the survey industry. It goes on to analyse today's media environment, looking at the role of the internet and the the increased difficulties it presents for measuring audiences. The book covers all the major players and controversies, such as Facebook's privacy rulings and Google's alliance with Nielson. Offering the first real comparative study, Rating the Audience is critical reading for media students and professionals." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9781849663410 Donation: Donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013 Contents: -- list of figures -- list of tables -- preface -- acknowledgments -- 1.Why the Ratings Are Important -- Introduction -- The Single Number -- Summary -- 2.The Convention -- `The Crossleys' - Archibald Crossley -- Arthur C. Nielsen (and the Black Box) -- Bill McNair and George Anderson -- New Forms of Knowledge about Audiences -- Theorizing the Convention -- Summary -- 3.The Panel and the Survey -- The Ratings Intellectuals -- Lazarsfeld -- The Very Idea of Measurement -- Single Source: `The Holy Grail' -- Summary -- 4.The Audit -- Taming Error -- Invisible Audiences -- The BBC: Robert Silvey's Thermometer and Barometer -- Summary -- 5.The Technologies of Counting -- The Diffusion of Ratings Technology -- Proliferation of Channels and Measurement -- Neuroscience, Neuromarketing and New Technologies of Measurement -- Timeshifting and Technologies of Counting -- The Increasing Technical Complexity of Audience Measurement -- Calls for Harmonization -- Summary -- 6.The Ratings Provider -- The Official Truth -- The Silent Revolution -- `Superior Technology': ATR-OzTAM and ACNielsen Controversy in Australia -- `Superior Technology': Nielsen versus Hooper, Nielsen versus Arbitron -- Summary -- 7.The Networks (and Other Media Providers) -- TV Economics -- Standardization -- Small Audiences and Set-top Boxes -- United Kingdom -- Summary -- 8.Advertisers and Media Planners -- The Dual Persona of the Advertiser -- The Media Planner -- Cost Efficiency and the Curve of Experience -- The Competent User -- Summary -- 9.The Audience -- The Modem Audience -- The Average Household and the Representative Individual -- Home Studies and the Public -- Audience Consent -- The Knowledge Aggregators -- Summary -- 10.The Critics -- The Broader Context -- The Bogart Persona -- Objections to Ratings -- Setting Limits to Statistics -- Problems with Increases in Scale -- Impersonal Secondary Data -- Deprofessionalization of Media Research -- Summary -- 11.The Future of Ratings -- bibliography -- index -- More info
book		Sex, violence & offensive language : community views on classification of TV programs / by Kathryn Paterson and Milica Loncar North Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, 1991. Call No: 440(94) PAT Author: Paterson, Kathryn; Loncar, Milica CorpAuthor: Australian Broadcasting Tribunal Source: AT Place: North Sydney Publisher: Australian Broadcasting Tribunal PubDate: 1991 PhysDes: 44 pages ; 25 cm Series: Research Monograph Series (Australian Broadcasting Tribunal) ; No. 2 Subject: AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCE RECEPTION. AUSTRALIA; BROADCASTING. AUSTRALIA; CENSORSHIP TV. AUSTRALIA; CODES OF PRACTICE. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT CONTROL, TV. AUSTRALIA; LEGISLATION FOR CHILDREN. AUSTRALIA; LEGISLATION. AUSTRALIA; PORNOGRAPHY ON TV; RATING FOR TV. AUSTRALIA; SEX AND TV; VIOLENCE ON TV. AUSTRALIA Summary: "Program classification issues have long been at the core of a heated public debate focusing on what can be shown on television. Because television is readily accessible to nearly all people of all ages, it is accepted that program standards are required to regulate what we are able to watch on television. However, any government regulation of television programs still raises sensitive issues. On the one hand, there is concern that even the most indirect intrusion into programming can destroy artistic intention and creativity. On the other hand, community opinion indicates that television and broadcasting in general, should maintain certain social objectives [...] This monograph is concerned principally with public attitudes to classification issues: namely, sex, violence and offensive language and knowledge of the classification system" - FROM INTRODUCTION ISBN: 0642168857 More info
book		Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Video Material / by the Research Branch of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal [North Sydney: The Tribunal], 1985. Call No: 44(94) SUB Source: AT Place: [North Sydney Publisher: The Tribunal] PubDate: 1985 PhysDes: 40 leaves ; 30 cm Subject: CENSORSHIP. AUSTRALIA; VIDEO, FILMS ON. AUSTRALIA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; VIOLENCE ON TV. AUSTRALIA; SEX IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SEX ON TV; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION. AUSTRALIA; RATING FOR TV. AUSTRALIA Summary: Study of the effects of sex and violence on viewers, particularly children, and the usefulness of the classification system Contents: Introduction -- Research on the effects of violence -- Public attitudes to televised violence and sex -- Attitudes to censorship -- Summary -- discussion of issues -- comments on the terms of reference -- references More info

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