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Walter Angus Lorne
May 8, 2012, 11:56:09 PM5/8/12
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SBS to launch Indigenous TV
by: Michael Bodey
From:The Australian
May 09, 2012
10:52AM
SBS has received its largest ever funding boost, in last night's budget, enabling it launch a new national free-to-air Indigenous Television service.
In last night’s federal budget, the government said it will transfer annual funding from NITV Pty Limited to SBS to develop a new, national digital free-to-air channel dedicated to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content.
Clocky
May 9, 2012, 5:29:19 AM5/9/12
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I want a whites only channel... or is that racial discrimination?
Coach
May 9, 2012, 6:19:12 AM5/9/12
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On May 9, 7:29 pm, "Clocky" <notg...@happen.com> wrote:
> I want a whites only channel... or is that racial discrimination?
You have to ask that question? What world do you live in?
> I want a whites only channel... or is that racial discrimination?
Clocky
May 9, 2012, 1:17:43 PM5/9/12
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that we live in where racial discrimination is acceptable as long as it's in
favour of a minority.
dechucka
May 9, 2012, 5:32:55 PM5/9/12
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"Clocky" <not...@happen.com> wrote in message
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>I want a whites only channel... or is that racial discrimination?
you are allowed to watch SBS you know, there is no colour barrier
Brad
May 9, 2012, 7:37:50 PM5/9/12
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hislop
May 9, 2012, 9:09:51 PM5/9/12
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I would like indigenous people to run it all themselves, just to see,
but I'm not so sure.
Clocky
May 9, 2012, 10:42:10 PM5/9/12
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bandwagons.
Stephen Oakes
May 10, 2012, 4:41:11 AM5/10/12
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On 10/05/12 12:42 PM, Clocky wrote:
> I don't want to pay for minority interest group feelgood and appeasement
> bandwagons.
There's a shitload of crap in this world that I don't want to pay for
> I don't want to pay for minority interest group feelgood and appeasement
> bandwagons.
but have to. I'd rather pay for feelgood bandwagons than charity for
mega-corporations (for example).
- soakes
Clocky
May 10, 2012, 11:00:23 AM5/10/12
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jobs rather than give money to people who will hate me for my skin colour no
matter what I do.
dechucka
May 10, 2012, 9:56:29 PM5/10/12
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well there is an example of equality between you and them
Fred Nurk
May 10, 2012, 11:22:41 PM5/10/12
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On Fri, 11 May 2012 11:56:29 +1000, "dechucka" <dech...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
Do you mean to say that through all that fractured grammar you
actually understood what he was attempting to say?
wrote:
actually understood what he was attempting to say?
Clocky
May 11, 2012, 6:31:59 AM5/11/12
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Clocky
May 11, 2012, 6:32:52 AM5/11/12
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Walter Angus Lorne
May 17, 2012, 7:41:56 AM5/17/12
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Looks like we'll have about 20 Free to air digital channels by the end of this year but only about 15 will
have anything worth watching. Channels 7 and 9 have recently dissapointed Aussie FTA viewers with their bloody infomercial channels. Now SBS plans to launch another 'niche' channel nationally, aimed at Indigenous
viewers. I hope that the Ten network don't introduce another bloody infomercial channel. That would be just *too* much !
Glad I have theFoxtel Platinum HD package !
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-16/indigenous-broadcasting-channel-push/4015316?section=entertainment
Indigenous groups push for digital TV channel
By Michael Coggan
Posted May 16, 2012 16:10:23
Indigenous groups want Communications Minister Stephen Conroy to consider a dedicated digital channel to broadcast programs that are not appropriate for a national audience.
Remote area broadcasters say they will continue to lobby the Federal Government to support local television in Aboriginal communities.
Dozens of channels currently broadcasting regional and local Indigenous programs will no longer be seen when the AURORA satellite is switched off next year.
In the federal Budget, $63 million was allocated to broadcaster SBS to establish a dedicated national Indigenous television channel.
That's been welcomed by Aboriginal broadcasters but Susan Locke from PAW Media, based at Yuendumu in Central Australia, says the national channel won't include important cultural programs because "one size does not fit all".
Francis Jupurrurla Kelly from PAW Media in Yuendumu says separate channels are needed to continue broadcasting programs that are only appropriate for local and regional audiences.
"Like those old people we take out bush that train us about sign languages, bush and all that," he said.
"Our ancestors in the background, you know."
PAW Media and the Indigenous Remote Communications Association want Communications Minister Stephen Conroy to consider a dedicated digital channel to broadcast programs that are not appropriate for a national audience.
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have anything worth watching. Channels 7 and 9 have recently dissapointed Aussie FTA viewers with their bloody infomercial channels. Now SBS plans to launch another 'niche' channel nationally, aimed at Indigenous
viewers. I hope that the Ten network don't introduce another bloody infomercial channel. That would be just *too* much !
Glad I have theFoxtel Platinum HD package !
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-16/indigenous-broadcasting-channel-push/4015316?section=entertainment
Indigenous groups push for digital TV channel
By Michael Coggan
Posted May 16, 2012 16:10:23
Indigenous groups want Communications Minister Stephen Conroy to consider a dedicated digital channel to broadcast programs that are not appropriate for a national audience.
Remote area broadcasters say they will continue to lobby the Federal Government to support local television in Aboriginal communities.
Dozens of channels currently broadcasting regional and local Indigenous programs will no longer be seen when the AURORA satellite is switched off next year.
In the federal Budget, $63 million was allocated to broadcaster SBS to establish a dedicated national Indigenous television channel.
That's been welcomed by Aboriginal broadcasters but Susan Locke from PAW Media, based at Yuendumu in Central Australia, says the national channel won't include important cultural programs because "one size does not fit all".
Francis Jupurrurla Kelly from PAW Media in Yuendumu says separate channels are needed to continue broadcasting programs that are only appropriate for local and regional audiences.
"Like those old people we take out bush that train us about sign languages, bush and all that," he said.
"Our ancestors in the background, you know."
PAW Media and the Indigenous Remote Communications Association want Communications Minister Stephen Conroy to consider a dedicated digital channel to broadcast programs that are not appropriate for a national audience.
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◙ The Last 200 Days ◙
May 24, 2012, 12:23:23 AM5/24/12
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Mixed feelings over SBS absorbing indigenous TV
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/mixed-feelings-over-sbs-absorbing-indigenous-tv/story-e6frg996-1226361642342
by: Sally Jackson
From:The Australian
May 21, 201212:00AM
MANAGEMENT at National Indigenous TV has raised concerns that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander network will lose its identity once it is absorbed into SBS on July 1.
The SBS takeover would give the channel a free-to-air national platform for the first time, but at the price of its independence, interim NITV chief executive Michael McMichael said.
It was previously confined to pay-TV and satellite broadcast.
"The upside is we expand the audience for NITV from a potential 7.5 million (viewers) to 23 million. That's a big upside, to bring indigenous stories to all of Australia," Mr McMichael said.
He has a three-month consulting contract to oversee the changeover.
"But there is a genuine concern about the loss of indigenous control," Mr McMichael said. "It has been expressed to me that yet another indigenous activity is being mainstreamed, taken away from the indigenous people.
"One of the issues I am concerned about -- although I know SBS is very aware of it and are addressing it -- is that the channel is not another multicultural channel, and indigenous Australians are not another type of multicultural Australian. They're the first Australians, and their voices are distinctive because of that, and I think there may be some real challenges on SBS's part internally to make sure that is recognised and promulgated."
In particular, SBS management should be conscientious about finding skilled indigenous personnel for the channel, he said.
About 80 per cent of NITV's approximately 50 staff will move across to SBS and station manager Tania Denning will retain that role.
This month's federal budget handed SBS $63m over four years to launch the new indigenous channel, which is due to start before the end of this year.
In the meantime, pay-TV Foxtel will continue to carry NITV.
The network will move from the Optus Aurora satellite to the federal government's Viewer Access Satellite Television system, which provides digital TV to remote areas.
Mr McMichael also said the budget money theoretically could be diverted elsewhere because it was not tied to the indigenous channel.
"My board really wanted to see the funding ring-fenced so it is spent only on the channel.
"The risk is there that at some point in time someone delves into the NITV budget to shore up something else," he said. "But I don't think this administration has any intention of doing that."
SBS is establishing an advisory board for the channel, which will include indigenous representatives, and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has also expressed a wish that one of SBS's two board vacancies be filled from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
SBS's last indigenous director was Aboriginal businessman Joseph Elu, who left the board in 2006.
NITV was launched under the Howard government and first aired in July 2007, with founding chief executive Pat Turner angling for funding to eventually make the network into a third public broadcaster alongside the ABC and SBS.
Instead, it came perilously close to being shut down altogether after the 2010 Stevens Review found it had failed "to fully meet the expectations of its stakeholders and to fulfill its potential".
Mr McMichael said he believed NITV had been successful "because of the achievement of obtaining free-to-air".
"But there will be those within the indigenous community who will say otherwise because of the loss of control," he said.
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◙ The Last 200 Days ◙
May 24, 2012, 8:12:24 AM5/24/12
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Find out about the challenges facing indigenous broadcasters in #Australia, #Canada and #New Zealand
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