Funding & Ads
In the month leading up to the 2010 federal election, more than
15,427 emails
were sent from people visiting the SaveOurSBS.org website to politicians
across all Parties. The emails asked government to increase public funding for SBS
and amend legislation to stop the disruptive breaks into
programs on SBS-TV. The
Greens promised
to do that.
Labor implied
that in a
different
economic climate it might place advertising restrictions on SBS.
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Save Our SBS, Monday, 28 November, 2011
Last week an event of significance took place in the Senate that may have important implications in the funding of SBS, leading to a considerable reduction in the number of adverts cluttering up television programs.
On Wednesday (26/11/11) the government voted in favour of a motion, tabled by Senator Scott Ludlum, communications spokesperson for the Greens, reiterating the value of SBS to Australian society. He also gave notice of a private bill, aimed at removing commercial breaks during programs on SBS television.
The Special Broadcasting Service Amendment (Natural Program Breaks and Disruptive Advertising) Bill 2012 will be tabled next year.
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Save Our SBS, Wednesday, 11 August, 2010
In a media release issued yesterday the President of SaveOurSBS.org, Steve Aujard, called on the government and Opposition to include SBS in their election policies.
Mr Aujard accused the Labor and Liberal parties of showing little regard towards SBS.
“Despite more than 12,000 emails sent to leaders of all parties from visitors to the SaveOurSBS.org website in the past few weeks, pleading for a promise to increase funding for SBS to free it from advertising, neither Labor nor Liberal are
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Save Our SBS, Sunday, 7 June, 2009
MEDIA RELEASE from Save Our SBS www.SaveOurSBS.org
Will the real SBS TV please stand up?
Save Our SBS www.SaveOurSBS.org congratulates SBS-TWO on its prime time* TV schedule. It goes more than half way in serving Australians whose native tongue is not English.
For the week ending Friday 5 June 2009 the schedule, as published on the SBS website, indicates that well over half of the prime time programs on the SBS second channel are in LOTE (languages other than English).
Save Our SBS spokesperson Darce Cassidy said “This would be good news, but
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Darce Cassidy, Wednesday, 13 May, 2009
Save Our SBS has welcomed the Budget announcement that the SBS will receive an additional $20 million over three years to help the broadcaster lift its level of Australian production.
Save Our SBS spokesperson Darce Cassidy said “The government has made the first move. It is now time for the SBS to listen to the government, and, more importantly, to its viewers. Both the viewers and the government want the SBS to stop interrupting programs with advertisements.”
“It is time for the SBS Board to put the “special” back into SBS television, to return the SBS to its multicultural Charter. Programs
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Darce Cassidy, Sunday, 19 October, 2008
Former Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, whose government established the Special Broadcasting Service, has been joined by ethnic community leaders and key figures from public life, literature and the arts in calling for the SBS to focus on the needs of viewers rather than on selling consumers to advertisers.
The statement, headed “The SBS Must Be Special” was prepared by Save Our SBS (www.SaveOurSBS.org). In addition to Mr Fraser it has been endorsed by the following:
Ethnic Community Leaders:
Professor Mary Kalantzis
Dr Heinrich Stefanik, OAM, former Secretary, Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia
George Zangalis, President, National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters Council,
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Save Our SBS, Saturday, 12 April, 2008
The man responsible for interrupting programs for advertisements on SBS-TV, Shaun Brown, has just had his term of appointment extended despite a 24% drop in the ratings for World News and lower program quality overall.
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Spoiling the ship for a ha’porth of tar MEDIA RELEASE
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Save Our SBS friends of SBS joins all supporters and friends of SBS in celebrating SBS radio and television. Without disruptive commercial breaks, the distinction that once separated SBS from commercial Networks would again be realised, allowing SBS to fully resume its rightful place as a special and unique multicultural broadcaster. We especially favour programs in languages other than English (LOTE) and applaud SBS for its direction of social inclusion and engaging with the Australian public and ethnic communities in particular.
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