Paper review: Digital turn-off, tightened belts and dissing Murdoch

Tim Burrowes

May 18, 2009 10:26

It’s not a good week for Australia’s great digital switch on, if today’s media and marketing sections are to be believed.

In digital radio, Austereo’s plans for Pink Radio have hit the slight snag that they didn’t get round to asking the artist’s permission, reports The Australian. As a further blow, the ABC has scaled back its plans for new digital radio services after failing to get Budget funding, says the paper.

And in digital TV, the only service unique to Freeview – Ten’s sports channel One – is going to be available on Foxtel from July 1, says The Oz.

Sticking with broadcasting, Commercial Radio Australia is not amused by the Press Council’s proposals to widen its remit to radio and online. Joan Warner, the CRA’s CEO uses the Oz to send a get-your-tanks-off-our-lawn message to the Press Council.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.