Australian Television Culture

<p>Australian television has been transformed over the past decade. Cross-media ownership and audience-reach regulations redrew the map and business culture of television; leading business entrepreneurs acquired television stations and then sold them in the bust of the late 1980s; and new television services were developed for non-English speaking and Aboriginal viewers.<br><br><i>Australian Television Culture</i> is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of the fundamental changes of this period. It is also the first to offer a substantial treatment of the significance of multiculturalism and Aboriginal initiatives in television.<br><br>Tracing the links between local regional national and international television services Tom O'Regan builds a picture of Australian television. He argues that we are not just an outpost of the US networks and that we have a distinct television culture of our own.</p>