NEVILLE, Ann
Politicians, media moguls and pay-TV : pay-TV policy-making in Australia 1977-1995 - Oxford : Blackwell Publishers Limited, June 2000
This article explores the major influences on pay-TV policy-making in Australia from the late 1970s, when the issue was first discussed in the context of proposals to establish a domestic communications satellite, up until the introduction of pay-TV in Australia in 1995, thereby placing current developments in the pay-TV industry in context. The article argues that among larger broadcasting and telecommunications issues, pay-TV has never been `the main game'. For both coalition and labor governments, and the introduction of competition in telecommunications have been much more important policy priorities than the introduction of pay-TV. Furthermore, because pay-TV policy-making largely took place in this wider policy context, the structure of the broadcasting and telecommunications industries also shaped pay-TV policy outcomes
Politicians, media moguls and pay-TV : pay-TV policy-making in Australia 1977-1995 - Oxford : Blackwell Publishers Limited, June 2000
This article explores the major influences on pay-TV policy-making in Australia from the late 1970s, when the issue was first discussed in the context of proposals to establish a domestic communications satellite, up until the introduction of pay-TV in Australia in 1995, thereby placing current developments in the pay-TV industry in context. The article argues that among larger broadcasting and telecommunications issues, pay-TV has never been `the main game'. For both coalition and labor governments, and the introduction of competition in telecommunications have been much more important policy priorities than the introduction of pay-TV. Furthermore, because pay-TV policy-making largely took place in this wider policy context, the structure of the broadcasting and telecommunications industries also shaped pay-TV policy outcomes
