Drop Local Content Quotas For Australian TV Networks And Industry Will Be Wrecked, Say Producers
Current licensing rules for free-to-air commercial TV broadcasters in Australia require a set number of hours of original, locally produced drama, nonfiction/news and children's programming each year. Those broadcasters are lobbying the conservative national government to eliminate those rules entirely, but even their "fallback" position, accepting a "simplified" quota system, would see spending on Australian […]