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- Title
- Pay's big play: the fight for possession of TV sport: a sporting challenge
- Author(s)
- Given, Jock
- Abstract
- Before pay TV began in Australia in 1995, the federal Parliament put together a strategy to address one of its great fears about the new medium - that TV viewers would end up paying for programs they were used to watching for free. The politicians dreamt of bumper stickers screaming 'I'm a Disgruntled TV Viewer and I Vote' in traffic jams from Bunbury to Byron Bay. That could add up to a lot of disgrunt. The strategy was an 'anti-siphoning list'---a list of events of 'national importance and cultural significance that have traditionally been televised by free-to-air broadcasters', to which pay TV would not be able to acquire rights that excluded free-to-air coverage. [Introduction]
- Publication type
- Newspaper article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Institute for Social Research
- Source
- The Australian: Media, 12 April 2001, pp. 6-7
- Publication year
- 2001
- Keyword(s)
- Anti-siphoning; Australia; Commercial television; Free-to-air television; Government policy; Media coverage; Olympic Games; Pay television; Sport; TV
- Publisher
- News Limited
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2001 Jock Given.
- Additional information
- This article featured as the cover story in the Media section of The Australian newspaper on 12 April 2001.
