The introduction of Australian digital television: politics, policy and power

Title: The introduction of Australian digital television: politics, policy and power
Creator: Tate, John William
Relation: Australian Journal of Political Science Vol. 50, Issue 2, p. 297-314
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2015.1035694
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2015
Description: This article discusses the introduction of digital television to Australia, and the competing interests, and conflicts of power, surrounding this. It seeks to explain the primary outcomes of the digital settlement in terms of these interests and these processes of power. It points out how this settlement was very much at odds with the pro-market, deregulatory and competition-oriented reform advanced by the Howard government (and prior to it, the Hawke and Keating governments) in other industry sectors. The digital settlement introduced in 2001 entirely determined what Australians watched on their television screens for the first decade of the 21st century. This article seeks to unpack the processes that led to this outcome.
Subject: digital television; Howard government; Kerry Packer; Labor opposition; power
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1340308
Identifier: uon:28442
Identifier: ISSN:1036-1146
Language: eng
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