Topic
areas
- ABA
and broadcasting information
- Broadcasting
planning
- Licence
allocations
- Online
services
- Ownership
and control
- Research
- Television
and radio program content
- Australian
content
- Compliance
with industry codes and the Broadcasting
Services Act
ABA
AND BROADCASTING INFORMATION
10 December - ABA welcomes
extra funding for digital television conversion
(120/98)
27 November - Australian
families guide to the Internet launched (114/98)
29 October - Daylight
saving - differences in broadcast times between
Queensland and New South Wales (107/98)
18 September - ABA
announces new senior management structure (88/98)
11 September - Australian
co-regulation a success says ABA Deputy Chairman
(85/98)
25 August - GWN acts on ABA
TV reception concerns in south west WA (80/98)
23 July - ABA shortlisted
for Carl Bertelsmann Prize (71/98)
24 June - ABA launches new
web site (57/98)
6 May - ABA asks Golden
West to restore coverage to 'blind spots' in
south west (45/98)
21 April - Satellite
delivered television services in remote and
regional Western Australia (40/98)
26 March - ABA extends
Optus WA retransmission permission (31/98)
16 March - ABA grants Optus
permission to rebroadcast Golden West terrestrial
service (24/98)
13 March - ABA considers
granting Optus permission to rebroadcast Golden
West terrestrial service (23/98)
13
March - ABA
Deputy Chairman elected head of International
Children and the Media Research Committee (22/98)
11 March - ABA approves
Golden West network analog satellite service
(21/98)
5 March - ABA seeks
comments by Monday on Golden West network analog
satellite service (18/98)
4 March - Golden West
network analog satellite service (17/98)
19 February - The ABA to
meet in Adelaide tomorrow (12/98)
29 January - Commercial TV
and radio profits up (4/98)
8 January - ABA collects
$181.5m in TV and radio licence fees (2/98)
BROADCASTING
PLANNING
Digital
24 December - Draft
national television digital conversion scheme
(129/98)
17 December - Warning to
consumers about 'digital ' televisions (123/98)
2 November - Draft
commercial television digital conversion scheme
(109/98)
Analog
23 December - Additional
television services in remote regions of
Australia (126/98)
30 November - New radio
services for the Darling Downs (116/98)
26 October - Up to twenty
new radio services proposed for South East NSW
(104/98)
26 October - New radio
services for Coffs Harbour and Kempsey (103/98)
12 October - New radio
services for Kingaroy (98/98)
12 October - Up to eight
new radio services proposed for Canberra (97/98)
9 October - Eleven new
radio services for the Hunter region of NSW
(96/98)
8 October - Additional
television service in the remote regions of
Australia (95/98)
2 September - New radio
services for Armidale, Tamworth and Grafton
(84/98)
4 August - New community
radio licence for Derby (73/98)
17 July - New radio
services for Gunnedah, Moree and Narrabri (69/98)
2 July - New radio services
for Inverell (66/98)
26 June - Variations to
commercial radio licence area plans for Katanning
and Narrogin, Western Australia (64/98)
26 June - New
preliminary views for the Hunter Region of NSW
(62/98)
17 June - ABA proposes
additional radio services for Darling Downs and
extension of 4SUN into Stranthorpe (55/98)
3 June - Proposed change of
freqencies for commercial radio services in
Katanning and Narrogin, WA (52/98)
22 May - New community
radio licences for Alexandra/Eildon and
Wangaratta (50/98)
7 May - New commercial
radio licence for Kingaroy, Queensland (47/98)
7 May - ABA invites
applications for open narrowcasting licences
(46/98)
15 April - New commercial
radio licence for Atherton, Queensland (39/98)
9 April - New community
radio licences for Echuca, Ballarat and Barham
(37/98)
1 April - New commercial
television licence for remote and regional
Western Australia (33/98)
25 March - Variation to
radio licence area plan for Atherton (30/98)
20 March - Up to three high
power radio channels available in Perth (28/98)
20 March - Up to five high
power radio channels available in Adelaide
(27/98)
10 March - New radio
services for Rockhampton/Gladstone and Emerald
(20/98)
17 February - Up to
six high power FM radio channels available in
Brisbane (11/98)
17 February - Up to seven
high power radio channels available in Melbourne
(10/98)
17 February - Up to six high
power radio channels available in Sydney (9/98)
16 February - Extension of
2TEN community radio service into Stanthorpe
(8/98)
10 February - New radio
services for Bundaberg and Maryborough (7/98)
4 February - New community
radio licences for Orange, Kandos and Cobar
(6/98)
6 January - New commercial
radio service proposed in Emerald (1/98)
LICENCES
23 December - New
commercial radio licence for Murray Bridge
(128/98)
22 December - ABA
allocates pay TV licences to FOXTEL and Optus
(125/98)
21
December - FM licences in capital cities
(124/98)
16 December - ABA
narrowcasting auctions raise $150 000 (122/98)
7 December - ABA invites
applications for two community radio licences to
serve Maryborough and Hervey Bay, Queensland
(119/98)
4 December - ABA chairman
outlines principles for allocating community
radio licences (118/98)
30 November - ABA
allocates new non-broadcasting services bands
commercial radio licence for Wagin, Western
Australia (115/98)
25 November - ABA
commercial radio auctions raise $1.8M (113/98)
24 November - ABA
to auction new commercial radio licences for
Rockhampton/Gladstone and Maryborough (112/98)
16 November - ABA to
conduct community radio licence allocation
hearing in Bathurst (111/98)
30 October - ABA invites
applications for open narrowcasting licences
(108/98)
15 October - ABA allocates
new non-broadcasting services bands commercial
radio licence for Geraldton and Kalgoorlie
(99/98)
15 October - ABA allocates
new non-broadcasting services bands commercial
radio licence (100/98)
15 October - ABA
to conduct community radio licence allocation
hearing in Bathurst (101/98)
8 October - ABA
allocates new commercial radio licences for
Bendigo, Bunbury and Orange (93/98)
1 October - Commercial
radio licences for Rockhampton/Gladstone and
Maryborough - Applications invited (91/98)
28 September - Bendigo
community radion applications - comments invited
(90/98)
28 August - ABA allocates
new non-broadcasting services bands commercial
radio licence for Albany, WA (82/98)
28 August - ABA allocates
new commercial radio licences for Bundaberg,
Cairns, Mackay and Townsville (83/98)
18 August - New community
radio licences for Dubbo, Mansfield and
Townsville (76/98)
31 July - Albury community
radio applications - comments invited (72/98)
8 July - New community
radio licence for Kyneton (67/98)
26 June - ABA
auctions raise $3 458 000 (63/98)
18 June - Two new radio
licences for Darwin (56/98)
16 June - ABA to auction
new radio licences for NSW, VIC and QLD (54/98)
3 June - New commercial
television licence for remote and regional
Western Australia (53/98)
1 May - ABA invites
applications for commercial radio licences for
Bundaberg, Cairns, Mackay, and Townsville (44/98)
29 April - Tasradio highest
bidder for Hobart narrowcasting licence (43/98)
28 April - ABA to auction
transmitter licence for open narrowcasting radio
service in Hobart (42/98)
14 April - ABA to auction
transmitter licence for open narrowcasting radio
service in Hobart (37/98)
8 April - Darwin community
radio - ABA to conduct public hearing (35/98)
31 March - ABA to auction
commercial television licence to serve remote and
regional Western Australia (32/98)
19 March - ABA invites
applications for Hobart open narrowcasting
licence (26/98)
27 February - ABA to
auction new commercial TV licence for remote and
regional Western Australia (15/98)
27 February - Community
radio applications for Bathurst, NSW (14/98)
24 February - Applications
invited for seven new community radio licences in
Southern NSW and Northern Victoria (13/98)
30 January - ABA invites
comment on Derby community radio applications
(5/98)
ON-LINE
SERVICES
24 June - Industry
Task Force recommends community education
campaign on children's use of the Internet
(58/98)
18 March - Australia at
forefront of global debate about the Internet
(25/98)
OWNERSHIP
AND CONTROL
11 December - FXF Trust
and Fairfax
28 October - ABA concludes
CanWest/Ten network control investigation
8 October - ABA
seeks comment on draft policy guidelines in staff
and facilities sharing in commercial radio
(94/98)
27 August - ABA Fairfax
investigation (81/98)
24 August - ABA to consider
further steps in Fairfax investigation (79/98)
21 August - ABA completes
evidence gathering in Fairfax investigation
(78/98)
1 June - ABA to investigate
appointment of Mr Brian Powers as Chairman of
John Fairfax Holdings Ltd (51/98)
18 May - ABA to investigate
appointment of Mr Brian Powers to John Fairfax
Holdings Ltd (49/98)
7 April - ABA investigation
into DMG and AMI (34/98)
27 February - Court upholds
ABA CanWest decision (16/98)
23 January - 4 April
deadline for CanWest (3/98)
RESEARCH
23 March - New research
about infants and television (29/98)
TELEVISION
AND RADIO PROGRAM CONTENT
Australian
content
13 November - ABA releases
amendments to Australian content standard
(110/98)
28 September - Submissions
to Australian content review on the web (89/98)
23 July - Compliance with
Australian content and children's program
standards in 1997 (70/98)
15 July - Review of
Australian Content Standard discussion paper
released (68/98)
28 April - High Court
decision threatens Australian content on
television (41/98)
8 April - Pay TV falls
short on Australian drama (36/98)
Compliance
with industry codes and the Broadcasting Services
Act
3 December - ABA finds
that TEN 10 exceeded advertising limits (117/98)
27 October - ABA finds
Channel 7 Sydney and Prime TV Northern NSW
exceeded advertising limits
21 October -
Investigations into program matters (102/98)
1 October - ABA
finds that the Government's tax reform
advertisements complied with the Broadcasting
Services Act (92/98)
13 August - ABA releases
correspondence from Senator Faulkner (75/98)
7 August - ABA publishes
guidelines for the broadcasting of political
matter (74/98)
14 September - ABA finds
'virtual advertising' did not breach television
code (87/98)
20 August - ABA finds TCN
Channel 9 exceeded advertising limits (77/98)
2 July - FX The
Series - ABA finds breach of commercial
television code of practice (65/98)
22 May - ABA investigating
the amount of advertising on Channel Nine (48/98)
6 March - Four Corners -
ABA finds breaches of ABC code (19/98)
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