The Albanese government has thrown a last-minute lifeline to keep Network Ten on air for 500,000 people in Western Australia, after a joint venture between Seven West Media and WIN Corporation came within days of turning off the signal, reports Nine Publishing’s Sam Buckingham-Jones . In May, Seven and WIN announced they would shut down a loss-making broadcast signal airing in Mildura, in north-western Victoria. The company, Mildura Digital Television, broadcast the Ten signal to an area the size of Belgium – an audience of about 70,000 people – and was “unable to justify” the expense.
[Read More] Australia is giving the internet industry six months to come up with an enforceable code detailing how it will stop children seeing pornography and other inappropriate material online or face having a code imposed on it, a regulator said on Tuesday, reports Reuters . The eSafety Commissioner said it wrote to members of the online industry demanding a plan by Oct. 3 setting out how they plan to protect minors from seeing high-impact material before they are ready, also including themes of suicide and eating disorders.
[Read More] The billionaire Barry Diller is exploring a bid to take control of Paramount, the parent company of CBS, MTV and Nickelodeon, according to four people with knowledge of the matter, according to The New York Times ‘ Lauren Hirsch and Benjamin Mullin . Diller’s digital-media conglomerate, IAC, has signed nondisclosure agreements with National Amu.
