Television
Australian television broadcasting is dominated by free-to-air services including ABC TV, Seven Network, Nine Network, Network Ten, SBS TV and their affiliates, as well as subscription television providers Foxtel, Austar and SelecTV.
Ownership of these stations and affiliates is mostly shared between PBL Media, Seven Media Group, WIN Corporation, Macquarie Media Group and Prime Television Limited. ABC Television and SBS Television are government owned stations.
There are also some smaller subscription television providers, such as Neighbourhood Cable and TransACT, but they are limited both in channel availability and subscribers. Community television stations are broadcast in most capital cities.
None of the commercial networks are owned by News Corporation.
Read more about this topic: Media Ownership In Australia
Famous quotes containing the word television:
“Photographs may be more memorable than moving images because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Television is a stream of underselected images, each of which cancels its predecessor. Each still photograph is a privileged moment, turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”
—Salvador Dali (1904–1989)