Journal article
Localism and networking: a radio news case study
Media International Australia, (117), pp.121-136
2005
Abstract
The Broadcasting Services Act 1992 ushered in a new hands-off approach by government which, in the case of radio, permitted commercial broadcasters to double their investments in individual markets through the two-station policy while removing any onerous commitments to local content. Since then, there has been concern about the flow-on effect this may have had, with Peter Collingwood's 1997 study of commercial radio confirming that levels of local content were reducing as levels of networked content were increasing. He bemoaned the fact that a by-product of the self-regulatory regime was a reduction in the amount of publicly available information against which performance could be gauged. Since 1992, only one detailed study of local radio news has been done, Graeme Turner's 1996 examination of radio and television news in the Brisbane market. Now a parallel study has been conducted in Perth, giving an insight into localism and networking six years later.
Details
- Title
- Localism and networking: a radio news case study
- Authors/Creators
- B. Josephi (Author/Creator)G. Phillips (Author/Creator)A. Businoska (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Media International Australia, (117), pp.121-136
- Publisher
- University of Queensland Press
- Identifiers
- 991005541715007891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Media, Communication and Culture
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher URL
- http://www.uq.edu.au/mia/index.html
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