Australia Media

Is widely accessible and caters to a wide variety of audiences. Ninetynine percent of Australian households have a television, and all households have at least one radio.

Public broadcasters

There are two media outlets in Australia which are publicly funded: the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). Both broadcast on free-to-air television, radio and online.

Television

New South Wales and Victoria was the first states to introduced to television in 1956, with the other states following suit up to 1971 (the Northern Territory). Colour television was introduced in 1975. In addition to the public broadcasters which are available to almost all of Australia's population, there are three major commercial television networks: the Nine Network, the Seven Network and Network Ten. Most of Australia's heavily populated cities are serviced by all three networks.

After heated debate in the early 2000s over a Bill that would have removed the foreign ownership restrictions of broadcasting TV licenses, the Australian government chose to retain the foreign-ownership restrictions in its 1992 Broadcasting Act. As such, Australia continues to disallow foreign control of a broadcasting license and limit foreign ownership of broadcasting firms to 20%.

Pay TV
A lot of people in Australia didn`t pay for Tv services. Approximately 25% of Australian households had access to pay television services by the end of 2005. The main operators are Foxtel and Optus in metropolitan areas, and Austar in regional and rural areas.

Press

Australia have a big industri of newspaper. You can fin a lot and diferebts kinds of newspaper and important magazines. There are 12 national or state/territory daily newspapers, 35 regional dailies and 470 other regional and suburban newspapers. The only national daily newspaper is The Australian, other notable newspapers are The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age (Melbourne) and the most prominent financial newspaper, The Australian Financial Review.

Radio

The radio in australia make a big progress since his starts. Australia's first regular radio broadcasts began on November 13, 1923 with station 2SB in Sydney. The ABC began broadcasting in 1932. Talkback radio was first broadcast with 3AW in Melbourne, 1967. ABC began experimenting with FM stations in the 1960s, but it wasn't until July 1980 did the first FM station commence full operations.

Regulation
Regulation of the media in Australia is limited to a narrow range of specific areas. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is the broadcasting regulator for radio and television in Australia, and also the regulatory Online Content Scheme. Consumers who have complaints about programs on television and radio or certain types of content on the Internet can apply to the ACMA.

Media ownership
Controls over media ownership in Australia are laid down in the Broadcasting Services Act 1992, administered by the ACMA. Even with laws in place Australia has a high concentration of media ownership compared to other western countries. Ownership of national and the newspapers of each capital city are dominated by two corporations, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, (which was founded in Adelaide but is now based from the United States) and John Fairfax Holdings , Murdoch-owned titles account for nearly two-thirds of metropolitan circulation and Fairfaxowned papers account for a further quarter.