Australian Television Culture

Australian television has been transformed over the past decade. Cross-media ownership and audience-reach regulations reshaped the business culture of television; leading entrepreneurs acquired and sold television stations in the late 1980s; and new television services were developed for non-English speaking and Aboriginal viewers. Australian Television Culture is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of these changes. It also provides a substantial treatment of the significance of multiculturalism and Aboriginal initiatives in television. Tracing the links between local, regional, national, and international television services, Tom O'Regan presents a picture of Australian television, emphasizing that it has a distinct culture of its own.