Journal articles: 'ABC television'

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Acham, Christine. "Black-ish: Kenya Barris on Representing Blackness in the Age of Black Lives Matter." Film Quarterly 71, no. 3 (2018): 48–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2018.71.3.48.

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African American studies and television scholar Christine Acham interviews Kenya Barris the creator of the top-rated primetime network show Black-ish (ABC, 2014—). Acham tuned in during the 2014 political climate of #BlackLivesMatter to find a show that veered so far from television's traditionally monolithic or culturally void versions of blackness. Her conversation with Kenya Barris took place on June 23, 2017, in Burbank, California. They discussed Black-ish in detail, and also engaged questions of politics, the specificity of black storytelling, the contemporary “Black Television Renaissance,” and the pressures and responsibilities facing black creatives in the industry. At press time, Barris had gone on to create a new spinoff show, Grown-ish, and to collaborate with some of its writers to launch yet another series, Bright Futures, a twenty-something comedy, also at ABC.

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Rutherford, Leonie. "The ABC, the Australian Children's Television Foundation and the Emergence of Digital Children's Television in Australia." Media International Australia 151, no. 1 (May 2014): 5–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1415100103.

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This article analyses the campaign to establish terrestrial digital children's public service broadcasting in Australia. It finds that the development of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's digital children's channel (ABC3), an initiative initially embraced somewhat opportunistically, enabled an expansion strategy for the public service broadcaster that ultimately helped determine the shape of its current digital channel portfolio. Contrasting the collective and divergent interpretations of future audience behaviours and needs developed by the Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF) and the ABC, it argues that both organisations developed strategies and made policy decisions that were influential in conditioning the current digital television ecology.

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Sexton, Max. "The Origins of Gritty Realism on British Television: Euston Films and Special Branch." Journal of British Cinema and Television 11, no. 1 (January 2014): 23–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2014.0190.

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Euston Films was the first film subsidiary of a British television company that sought to film entirely on location. To understand how the ‘televisual imagination’ changed and developed in relationship to the parent institution's (Thames Television) economic and strategic needs after the transatlantic success of its predecessor, ABC Television, it is necessary to consider how the use of film in television drama was regarded by those working at Euston Films. The sources of realism and development of generic verisimilitude found in the British adventure series of the early 1970s were not confined to television, and these very diverse sources both outside and inside television are well worth exploring. Thames Television, which was formed in 1968, did not adopt the slickly produced adventure series style of ABC's The Avengers, for example. Instead, Thames emphasised its other ABC inheritance – naturalistic drama in the form of the studio-based Armchair Theatre – and was to give the adventure series a strong London lowlife flavour. Its film subsidiary, Euston Films, would produce ‘gritty’ programmes such as the third and fourth series of Special Branch. Amid the continuities and tensions between ABC and Thames, it is possible to discern how economic and technological changes were used as a cultural discourse of value that marks the production of Special Branch as a key transformative moment in the history of British television.

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Potter, Anna. "You've Been Pranked: Reality Tv, National Identity and the Privileged Status of Australian Children's Drama." Media International Australia 146, no. 1 (February 2013): 25–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1314600106.

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Australian children have always been considered a special television audience. In November 2009, Australia's public service broadcaster the ABC launched Australia's first dedicated free-to-air children's channel. Within a year of its launch, ABC3's most popular program was a local version of the transnational reality format, Prank Patrol. The popularity of reality television with children challenges policy settings, including the Children's Television Standards (CTS), that privilege drama in the expression of the goals of cultural nationalism. While public service broadcasting ideology is expressed and applied to Australian commercial free-to-air channels through the CTS, public service media compete with pay TV channels for the child audience using a range of genres. Thus contemporary Australian children's television is characterised by an abundance of supply, pan-platform delivery and a policy regime that has remained largely unchanged since the late 1970s.

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Harrison, Kate. "RCTS: A Review of the Policy Process." Media Information Australia 38, no. 1 (November 1985): 24–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x8503800109.

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The political problems surrounding the provision of a commercial television service to viewers in remote areas first surfaced publicly in the 1984 Australian Broadcasting Tribunal (ABT) Inquiry into Satellite Program Services (SPS). The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) had already worked out its Homestead and Community Broadcasting Satellite Service (HACBSS) scheme for bringing ABC TV to remote areas via the satellite, but there remained considerable uncertainty as to the provision of commercial television to remote areas. The Minister for Communications asked the Tribunal to examine this issue in the course of its Inquiry.

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Hawkins, Gay. "ABC TV Online, Digitally Yours." Media International Australia 100, no. 1 (August 2001): 95–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0110000110.

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Molly Reynolds worked at the ABC as the TV Online Producer for 18 months. She now works for Beyond and is responsible for Beyond Online's foray into broadband Internet. In this interview, she discusses with Gay Hawkins the nature of her work and its implications for the future of television production and delivery.

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Vogan, Travis. "Monday Night Football and the Racial Roots of the Network TV Event." Television & New Media 18, no. 3 (August 20, 2016): 235–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527476416664186.

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Launched in 1970, American Broadcasting Company’s (ABC) Monday Night Football made live prime time sports television viable when most sports broadcasts were relegated to weekends. It did so in part by packaging games for a crossover viewership. To this end, it suppressed racial divisiveness that might splinter the mainstream audience it sought. ABC parlayed Monday Night Football’s widespread popularity into prime time TV events beyond sports broadcasts that grew out of the programming flows it established and reflected its racial politics, including the made-for-TV melodrama Brian’s Song (1971) and the miniseries Roots (1977). Like Monday Night Football, these marquee TV events courted a crossover audience in part by downplaying racial discord. Although overlooked in scholarship that historicizes and critiques network television’s racial politics, Monday Night Football established intersecting representational conventions and programming norms that informed the mediation of race on some of U.S. television’s most visible, celebrated, and influential TV events.

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Eaton, B. Carol. "Prime-Time Stereotyping on the New Television Networks." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 74, no. 4 (December 1997): 859–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769909707400413.

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This content analysis examines portrayals of women in prime-time promotional announcements broadcast on five television networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, and UPN) during one week in 1995. Findings supported the hypotheses that (1) women are underrepresented in all television networks' promotional announcements, and that (2) stereotypical portrayals of women in these announcements varied due to the television network's target audience. Specifically, television program promotional announcements on networks that seek a younger male audience contained more stereotypical female characters than other network programming produced for a more general audience.

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Burns, Maureen. "A Brief History of Science Communication in Australia." Media International Australia 150, no. 1 (February 2014): 72–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1415000116.

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Early science reporting in Australia – up to and including the 1940s – was often sourced from overseas. During and after World War II, attention turned to applied science, at first for the war effort and afterwards to rebuild the nation. From the late 1950s to the late 1970s, entrepreneurs in science and media in Sydney worked together to provide science material in commercial outlets as well as for the ABC. In the context of the space race, the Cold War and atomic energy, science communication flourished from the 1950s to the 1970s. Since then, science content has been widespread in the television schedules of commercial networks in forms such as children's television, lifestyle programs and news items, and is also apparent in community radio schedules as well as on ABC television and radio. Claims that Australia has little science communication may be based on too narrow a view of what constitutes science content.

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Withers, Glenn. "Television Viewing and ABC Program Policy: An Econometric Study." Australian Journal of Management 10, no. 2 (December 1985): 99–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/031289628501000206.

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Vujanic, Ana. "The future of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia’s ‘chilling’ mediascape." Australian Journalism Review 43, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 115–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ajr_00060_7.

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Two decades after Pierre Bourdieu published On Television and Journalism chronicling the decline of French public broadcasting and serious news, Australia’s national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is in the throes of a similar decline. Besieged by a combination of funding cuts, allegations of political interference, pressure from the commercial media sector, nepotism and legislative frameworks at both federal and state levels that have sent a chill through Australian journalism, the ABC is facing challenging times. Through long-form interviews with journalists and senior bureau figures from the ABC Brisbane Bureau, this study seeks to gauge the extent to which the landscape for conducting public interest journalism in Australia has changed since 2018 and what the future of the ABC may look like.

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Andrews, Kylie. "Broadcasting inclusion and advocacy: a history of female activism and cross-cultural partnership at the post-war ABC." Media International Australia 174, no. 1 (September 18, 2019): 97–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x19876331.

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During the first decade of television in Australia, a cohort of female broadcasters used their hard-won positions at the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) to challenge the social and cultural complacencies of post-war society. Counteracting the assumption that women were largely absent in post-war broadcasting, this research discusses how two of these producers used their roles as public broadcasters to enact their own version of feminism, a social and cultural activism framed through active citizenship. Critiquing race, gender and national identity in their programmes, they partnered with Indigenous Australian activists and worked to amplify the voices of minorities. Referring to documentaries produced in Australian television’s formative years, this article describes how ABC producers Therése Denny and Joyce Belfrage worked to disrupt programming cultures that privileged homogeneous Anglo-Australian perspectives. As a consequence, documentaries like A Changing Race (1964) presented empathetic and evocative content that challenged xenophobic stereotypes and encouraged cross-cultural understandings.

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Wilson, Helen. "ABC Radio Spaces: Region, State, Nation." Media International Australia 88, no. 1 (August 1998): 39–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x9808800107.

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In contrast to the ‘high communication policy’ of most of Australian television, recent developments in ABC radio have exhibited an opposing tendency, towards multiple centres of transmission. This came about through an imperative to provide equity for rural listeners, with the establishment of a Second Regional Radio Network in the 1980s. The network has resulted in a complex layering of radio's ‘spaces of communication’ on regional stations, which broadcast local, regional, state and national programs. This paper outlines the regional structure of the ABC in three states and begins to explore the nature of radio space.

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Appleyard, Bryan. "Popular Culture and Public Affairs." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 45 (March 2000): 97–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246100003337.

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Recently I saw a corporate TV advertisement for the American television network ABC. It showed brief shots of people in other countries—France, Japan, Russia and so on. These people were doing all kinds of things, but they weren't watching television. Americans, the commentary told us, watch more TV than any of these people. Yet America is the richest, most innovative, most productive nation on the planet. ‘A coincidence’, concluded the wry, confident voice, ‘we don't think so’.

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Quade, William. "ABC Sports: The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television, Travis Vogan (2018)." Journal of Popular Television 9, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 279–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jptv_00055_5.

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Review of: ABC Sports: The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television, Travis Vogan (2018)Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2981 pp.,ISBN 978-0-52029-295-6, h/bk, $85.00ISBN 978-0-52029-296-3, p/bk, $29.95

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Clark, Jennifer S. "From Stripping on Broadway to Knitting on TV." Feminist Media Histories 2, no. 4 (2016): 143–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2016.2.4.143.

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Using program content, industry contextualization, and archival materials, this article analyzes The Gypsy Rose Lee Show (ABC, 1965–68) in terms of its complex relationship to labor and the consequences of labor practices for television workers. Hosted by famed performer Gypsy Rose Lee, this syndicated program utilized the celebrity and performance skills of its host and guests to both express and mask the labors required of television production. While the feminized and queer qualities of such labors created progressive performances around marginalized workers and invisible work, in some aspects the show acceded to the economic demands of capital against the rights of labor. Lee as a television celebrity and worker thus warrants consideration for her contributions to a transitional moment in American culture and television history.

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King, Erika G., and Matthew Robert Kerbel. "Edited for Television: CNN, ABC, and the 1992 Presidential Campaign." Political Psychology 17, no. 3 (September 1996): 615. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3791978.

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Staurowsky, Ellen J. "ABC Sports: The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television." International Journal of Sport Communication 13, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): 275–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ijsc.2020-0040.

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Kendall, Kathleen E., and Matthew Robert Kerbel. "Edited for Television: CNN, ABC, and the 1992 Presidential Campaign." Political Science Quarterly 110, no. 1 (1995): 149. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2152075.

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Kiuchi, Yuya. "Abc Sports: The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television." Journal of American History 106, no. 4 (March 1, 2020): 1123–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaz805.

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Back, Howard. "Edited for television—CNN, ABC and the 1992 Presidential campaign." Public Relations Review 20, no. 4 (December 1994): 396–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0363-8111(94)90099-x.

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Schmidt, Hans C. "ABC Sports: The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television." Journal of Sport History 47, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 106–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.47.1.0106.

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Hutchinson, Jonathon. "Public Service Media and Social TV: Bridging or Expanding Gaps in Participation?" Media International Australia 154, no. 1 (February 2015): 89–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1515400112.

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The public service media (PSM) remit requires the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) to provide for minorities while fostering national culture and the public sphere. Social media platforms and projects – specifically ‘social TV’ – have enabled greater participation in ABC content consumption and creation; they provide opportunities for social participation in collaborative cultural production. However it can be argued that, instead of deconstructing boundaries, social media platforms may in fact reconstruct participation barriers within PSM production processes. This article explores ABC co-creation between Twitter and the # 7DaysLater television program, a narrative-based comedy program that engaged its audience through social media to produce its weekly program. The article demonstrates why the ABC should engage with social media platforms to collaboratively produce content, with # 7DaysLater providing an innovative example, but suggests skilled cultural intermediaries with experience in community facilitation should carry out the process.

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Patrick, John. "ABC Children's Radio: Coming Back into the Mainstream." Media Information Australia 41, no. 1 (August 1986): 27–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x8604100108.

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Making radio programs for children is very exciting. Writers, producers and actors can be bold and imaginative because the responses of the young audience are fresh and vital, hot yet deadened by a lengthy exposure to the format programs of adult commercial television. And the act of listening to good story programs on radio uses the imaginative resources of the listener to provide the visual element so that the experience becomes collaborative and intensely personal.

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Cryle, Denis, Christina Hunt, and Ross Quinn. "Researching ABC Rockhampton TV, 1963–85: Two Decades of Regional Television Broadcasting." Queensland Review 17, no. 1 (January 2010): 47–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600005250.

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In 1963, Rockhampton was chosen by the Australian Broadcasting Commission to become its first television station in Queensland. ABC Rockhampton TV belonged to a select number of outlets that, in the days before aggregation and extensive networking, gathered and broadcast their own news and local programs to regional viewers. This article details the unearthing and preservation of records vital to this research, and uses these to document the highs and lows of the Rockhampton station. We argue that the history of ABC Rockhampton TV forms a neglected chapter in the ‘getting of regional television’ and the production of local content, and provides an account of the early operations of the organisation from its inception in 1963, an overview of its achievements and an explanation of the reasons for its abrupt demise in the mid-1980s. Additionally, we identify the achievements of particular programs and staff members, and acknowledge the personal tragedies that dogged the station and its community in the closing phase.

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Rando, Gaetano. "Broadcasting in Italy: Democracy and Monopoly of the Airwaves." Media Information Australia 40, no. 1 (May 1986): 39–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x8604000109.

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Australia, as compered with some overseas countries, has a stable and continuous radio and television history. The price has been the creation of an oligopolistic commercial sector which is much stronger than the national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Public (community) broadcasting is still confined to a sector starved of funds; public TV still a pipedream. Ethnic radio and multicultural television, through the Special Broadcasting Service, have a short history which is far from smooth and under constant threat for TV to be merged with the ABC.

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Lightner, Teresa, and Robert C. Ricketts. "Tax Implications of Participating in Reality Television." Issues in Accounting Education 22, no. 2 (May 1, 2007): 247–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/iace.2007.22.2.247.

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This instructional case is intended for use as a tax research project to introduce you to a “real-world” issue that illustrates how statutes intended for one purpose are often used by tax advisors for seemingly unrelated purposes. The case is based on the ABC television show, Extreme Home Makeover: Home Edition, and the resulting tax treatment to the homeowners from the renovations provided by the show. This case allows you the opportunity to research a controversial tax issue that is currently undecided and asks you to assess the relevant authorities and determine whether the show's tax planning follows the intention of the law.

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Qureshi, Bilal. "Elsewhere." Film Quarterly 71, no. 1 (2017): 59–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2017.71.1.59.

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The Jewel in the Crown was based on a quartet of acclaimed novels by the British writer Paul Scott and told the interwoven stories of colonial officers and their families living in India as the empire collapsed around them. It aired over fourteen weeks on PBS's Masterpiece Theater, from December 1984 to March 1985, and arrived in the midst of a golden age of television that included groundbreaking miniseries such as The Thorn Birds (ABC, 1983) and Brideshead Revisited (ITV, 1981). The new British import produced by Granada Television became a critical and cultural sensation–the definition of appointment television. One in nine Americans with a television set tuned in, over several months, as it transported audiences to the unseen exotic landscapes of India and the twilight of the British Raj. Qureshi reflects on this series thirty years after it first aired on American television, and finds it unexpectedly subversive, sly, and prescient.

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Lim, Jeongsub. "Representation of data journalism practices in the South Korean and US television news." International Communication Gazette 81, no. 1 (February 26, 2018): 89–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748048518759194.

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Few studies have investigated how television news is represented through data journalism. To fill this gap, this study compared data news content from South Korean and that from US television networks using the grounded theory method. The following differences were found: South Korean television networks ( KBS, SBS, MBC, and JTBC) highlight social issues, politics, and lifestyle; while American television networks ( ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN) cover the economy, social issues, and politics. Both television networks rely on government sources and seldom provide raw data. The South Korean networks use a static graph and an infographic most frequently, while the US networks favor a number pull quote and a static graphic. The South Korean networks prefer complex, visually appealing elements (e.g., an infographic), while the American networks prefer less complex and less visually appealing elements (e.g., a number pull quote). The South Korean networks prefer the news forms of ‘visualization,’ ‘condensity,’ and ‘typification,’ and the US networks prefer ‘visualization,’ ‘typification,’ ‘condensity,’ and ‘completeness.’ The degree of user participation is extremely low in both countries’ networks.

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Turner, Graeme. "‘Popularising Politics’: This Day Tonight and Australian Television Current Affairs." Media International Australia 106, no. 1 (February 2003): 137–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0310600114.

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This paper presents a history of the pioneering ABC TV current affairs program, This Day Tonight (TDT). This Day Tonight has mythic status in the history of Australian television news and current affairs, and is often used as a reference point for the kind of political Journalism that is now generally held to have disappeared from Australian television. The research for this paper does endorse this myth to some extent, but it also reminds us of the importance of the broader cultural contexts within which television programming must find its audience. There are significant differences to be noted, and important lessons to be learnt, from the comparison between TDT and its audience, and the kinds of current affairs programming and audiences we have today. Further, the history of TDT's demise challenges the basis for the industry nostrum that audiences find politics boring and that therefore political journalism is no longer a commercial option for contemporary current affairs television.

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F. Recher, Harry. "Good Luck." Pacific Conservation Biology 15, no. 4 (2009): 230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc090230.

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On last night?s (11 November 2009) ABC Television, I watched Sir David Attenborough being interviewed for the 7.30 Report by Kerry O?Brien. Sir David is a household name throughout the English speaking world, if not universally. Since the beginnings of television, David Attenborough has brought the world of nature into our homes. He has probably seen more of the Earth?s wild animals and untamed places than any known traveller in modern history; a compassionate, intelligent, thoughtful and articulate man, Sir David?s views on the future of the wild planet merit respect and careful consideration. In this interview, three things stood out.

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Duffield, Lee. "Forgetting PNG? Australian media coverage of Papua New Guinea." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 26, no. 1 (July 31, 2020): 178–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v26i1.1069.

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Coverage of Papua New Guinea in Australian media has been a source of resentment and dissatisfaction since the former Territory’s independence in 1975. A survey of media content in Australia has been made, to retrace collaborative research during 2007-11 that showed overall low volumes of coverage much of it negative in cast. The Australian ABC provided some exception, maintaining a Port Moresby correspondent. The present study finds the volume of coverage has increased slightly with indications of more positive approaches in reporting on the country. It contrasts disinterest in PNG among established press and commercial television, with the ongoing contribution of ABC, and the ‘new media’ Guardian Australia making a targeted and well-serviced entry into the field.

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Grant, Anthony M. "Reality TV gets positive: Psychological reflections on Making Australia Happy." International Coaching Psychology Review 6, no. 2 (September 2011): 229–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsicpr.2011.6.2.229.

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The Australian ABC television seriesMaking Australia Happyfollowed eight individuals as they completed an intensive eight-week positive psychology coaching programme using scientifically-validated positive psychology interventions. The show generated the largest ever web-based response to an ABC programme with over 1,000,000 hits on the ABC website (initially crashing the ABC servers) and over 45,000 registered individuals taking online assessments and doing positive psychology exercises. Over the eight weeks participants’ levels of stress, anxiety and depression reduced remarkably, levels of subjective wellbeing and psychological well-being increased and there were significant improvements in a range of biochemical markers including blood pressure, cortisol and melatonin. Participants’ mean performance on a cold presser task (a measure of physical resilience) increased from 57 seconds to 131 seconds post-programme. In addition, pre-post Magnetoencephalography (MEG) brain scans showed significant positive changes in brain functioning. A 24-week follow-up indicated that the gains in positive psychological functioning were maintained. This reflective article, written by the psychologist presenter of the show outlines these findings and discusses some of the challenges for psychologists working at the intersection of science and commercialism, particularly in areas such as positive psychology.

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Stevens, E. Charlotte. "“Researching Starsky and Hutch is exquisite torture”." Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 20 (January 27, 2021): 213–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.20.16.

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This paper reflects on work-in-progress on archived media fans’ letterzines of the 1970s and 1980s. Growing out of the science fiction APA fanzine scene, letterzines collect letters of comment (LOCs) between female fans and capture conversations about their television viewing. Zines from this period go beyond science fiction and include fandoms for cop shows such as Starsky & Hutch (ABC, 1975–1979) and Simon & Simon (CBS, 1981–1989). Letterzines, which have not typically been used as a source for exploring women’s television history, contain a range of information of interest to historians: interpretations of character and narrative, reports on fan conventions and meet-ups, and discussions of how women related to contemporary television at a time when VCRs started to saturate the domestic market. These primary source documents can potentially nuance assumptions about what women watched, their views on the programmes, and the contexts in which they watched.

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Adegbola, Oluseyi, Jacqueline Skarda-Mitchell, and Sherice Gearhart. "Everything’s negative about Nigeria: A study of US media reporting on Nigeria." Global Media and Communication 14, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 47–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1742766518760086.

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Previous research on international communication cites under-reporting and negative coverage as major problems of Western media reporting of the African continent. These problems are present specifically in US television coverage of African countries. Utilising agenda-setting and media framing theory, this study content analyses US television media coverage of Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy and most populous nation, in two 5-year time periods, 2005–2009 and 2010–2014. Reports broadcast by the big three networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were coded for issues, sources, valence, and frames ( N = 643). Results corroborate existing research regarding the predominance of episodic frames and negative coverage across time periods. New findings concerning coverage of Nigeria by Western media organisations are discussed.

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Chandra, Shania Permata, and Setefanus Suprajitno. "Multimodal Analysis of Man/Husband and Woman/Wife Representations in Two Indonesian Seasoning Television Commercials." K@ta Kita 10, no. 1 (March 15, 2022): 96–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.9744/katakita.10.1.96-104.

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Television occupies widespread popularity and is the best and most effective medium for commercials. With the rapid business growth, television commercial (TVC) has been more and more creatively made. TVC producers usually use semiotic resources to represent a certain character. Through this study, we aim to discover the way the man/husband and woman/wife characters are represented in Royco’s The Best Gift is Homemade TVC and Kecap ABC’s Kecap ABC Bantu Suami Sejati Hargai Istri TVC using visual, gestural, and linguistic modes, and whether the representations challenge or support the traditional roles of man/husband and woman/wife and the reason using traditional gender role theory. Our findings show that, in both TVCs, the man/husband and woman/wife are represented modern roles of man/husband and woman/wife. By doing so, the TVCs persuade the target audience, regardless of their roles as man/husband or woman/wife, to cook with Royco and Kecap ABC.Keywords: Multimodality, Representations, Television Commercial (TVC)

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Moldovan, Raluca. "“That Show You Like Might Be Coming Back in Style”: How Twin Peaks Changed the Face of Contemporary Television." American, British and Canadian Studies Journal 24, no. 1 (June 1, 2015): 44–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/abcsj-2015-0003.

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Abstract The present study revisits one of American television’s most famous and influential shows, Twin Peaks, which ran on ABC between 1990 and 1991. Its unique visual style, its haunting music, the idiosyncratic characters and the mix of mythical and supernatural elements made it the most talked-about TV series of the 1990s and generated numerous parodies and imitations. Twin Peaks was the brainchild of America’s probably least mainstream director, David Lynch, and Mark Frost, who was known to television audiences as one of the scriptwriters of the highly popular detective series Hill Street Blues. When Twin Peaks ended in 1991, the show’s severely diminished audience were left with one of most puzzling cliffhangers ever seen on television, but the announcement made by Lynch and Frost in October 2014, that the show would return with nine fresh episodes premiering on Showtime in 2016, quickly went viral and revived interest in Twin Peaks’ distinctive world. In what follows, I intend to discuss the reasons why Twin Peaks was considered a highly original work, well ahead of its time, and how much the show was indebted to the legacy of classic American film noir; finally, I advance a few speculations about the possible plotlines the series might explore upon its return to the small screen.

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Krikowa, Natalie. "Writing inclusive and diverse children’s television: Transgender representation in ABC Australia’s First Day." Journal of Screenwriting 12, no. 3 (September 1, 2021): 325–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/josc_00070_1.

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This article presents a case study of the Australian children’s television programme, First Day (ABC Australia 2020‐present), which depicts a young transgender girl’s experiences beginning high school. The article explores the screenwriting process involved in creating inclusive and diverse children’s television, drawing on an original interview with Julie Kalceff, the show’s screenwriter and director. Kalceff discusses her screenwriting process writing for and about children who occupy liminal and marginal spaces and the research, writing and consultation processes undertaken to create her pioneering work with trans characters as lead protagonists. The resulting series explores the universal experience of starting the high school journey, while allowing for a normalizing of gender diversity on-screen ‐ hopefully the first of many of its type in the future. By foregrounding historically marginalized characters, screenwriters can explore universal social, psychological and physical trials, and in the process, break down stigmas surrounding LGBTQ people.

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Schmidt, Hans C. "ABC Sports: The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television by Travis Vogan." Journal of Sport History 47, no. 1 (2020): 106–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sph.2020.0023.

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Fulton, Graham R. "The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent." Pacific Conservation Biology 18, no. 3 (2012): 218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc130218.

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MICHAEL Cathcart was born in Melbourne. He teaches Australian History at the University of Melbourne and has presented various shows on ABC radio and television. I have spent many mornings listening to him on Radio National where he brings knowledge and fairness to his interviews, furthering my belief that academics need more media exposure– –all credit to him. He has published broadly including an abridgement of Manning Clark’s epic A History of Australia and an anthology of Australian Speeches.

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Saraswati, Vrida Bunga, Pujiyanto, and Mitra Istiar Wardhana. "Kajian Semiotika Pesan Feminisme pada Iklan Kecap ABC Edisi Suami Sejati Hargai Istri." JoLLA: Journal of Language, Literature, and Arts 1, no. 5 (May 31, 2021): 655–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.17977/um064v1i52021p655-672.

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Abstract: Kecap ABC Advertisement in edition Suami Sejati Hargai Istri is one of Kecap ABC advertisements produced from a series of campaigns called Suami Sejati Mau Masak, Terima Kasih Perasan Pertama launched by Heinz ABC Indonesia to express appreciation to the wife or mother in domestic work, one of which is cooking. This advertisement not only contains the aim of appreciating men for women in the kitchen but also conveys the message of feminism that is conveyed visually in the advertisements. The purpose of this study was to analyze the visual messages of feminism in the Kecap ABC advertisement in edition Suami Sejati Hargai Istri using the meaning of Roland Barthes' semiotic theory. This study uses a descriptive qualitative research method with Roland Barthes' semiotic approach with the stages of formulating the background, problems, objectives, formulating research methods, collecting data, analysis, discussion and conclusions. The result of this research is the analysis of selected scenes from the Kecap ABC advertisement in edition Suami Sejati Hargai Istri that most supports the visual message of feminism and then analyzed with Roland Barthes' denotative, connotative and mythical meanings of semiotics. Keywords: semiotic, television advertisment, feminism Abstrak: Iklan Kecap ABC edisi Suami Sejati Hargai Istri merupakan salah satu iklan Kecap ABC yang dihasilkan dari serangkaian kampanye Suami Sejati Mau Masak, Terima Kasih Perasan Pertama yang diluncurkan oleh Heinz ABC Indonesia untuk menyampaikan bentuk apresiasi pada istri atau ibu dalam pekerjaan domestik salah satunya memasak. Dalam iklan ini tidak hanya mengandung tujuan apresiasi laki-laki pada perempuan di dapur tetapi juga menyampaikan pesan feminisme yang disampaikan secara visual dalam iklan-iklannya. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah menganalisa pesan-pesan visual feminisme dalam iklan Kecap ABC edisi Suami Sejati Hargai Istri menggunakan pemaknaan teori semiotika Roland Barthes. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kulitatif deskriptif pendekatan semiotika Roland Barthes dengan tahapan merumuskan latar belakang, masalah, tujuan, merumuskan metode penelitian, mengumpulkan data, analisis, pembahasan hingga kesimpulan. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah analisis adegan-adegan terpilih dari iklan Kecap ABC edisi Suami Sejati Hargai Istri yang paling mendukung adanya pesan visual feminisme lalu dianalisis dengan pemaknaan semiotika Roland Barthes denotatif, konotatif dan mitos. Kata kunci: semiotika, iklan televisi, feminism

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Andrews, Kylie. "Don’t tell them I can type: negotiating women’s work in production in the post-war ABC." Media International Australia 161, no. 1 (September 26, 2016): 28–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x16669400.

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This article examines the pervasive mechanisms of discrimination in Australian public broadcasting in the 1950s and 1960s and considers how concepts of femininity were engaged to maintain the sexual division of labour within one of Australia’s leading cultural institutions, the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). Constructing a collective biography of female producers who challenged gendered work practices, it discusses the obstacles that confronted women in production and considers the social, economic and industrial factors that allowed certain women to become producers when many failed to escape the ABC’s typing pool. Referring to case studies derived from biographical memory sources and industrial documentation, this article historicises the careers of radio and television producers and contextualises their histories against data found in the 1977 Women in the ABC report, to re-imagine the nature of women’s work in Australian broadcasting in the post-war era.

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Larson, Stephanie Greco, and Martha Bailey. "ABC's “Person of the Week”: American Values in Television News." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 75, no. 3 (September 1998): 487–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769909807500305.

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This study analyzed five years of “ABC World News Tonight's ‘Person of the Week’” segments to identify prominent types of people and values endorsed by mainstream news media. Individuals most frequently selected for ABC's honor lived in the United States; worked in politics and entertainment; and were white, male, and famous. American values such as individualism, heroism, and unselfishness were more commonly portrayed than were populism, capitalism, and patriotism. Women who were chosen were less famous and more likely to be in social services and to have caretaker roles than were their male counterparts. Blacks were more likely than whites to come from humble backgrounds and to be the first in their fields and involved with social issues. Selflessness, especially when exhibited by women, was a frequently celebrated value.

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Galvin, Kristen. "‘Those Were the Days’: The live televisual revival of the musical and retro family sitcom in the post-network era." Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 9, no. 2 (September 1, 2020): 231–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ajpc_00029_1.

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Television is historically a generative site for examining media nostalgias. Within the ever-widening landscape of reboots, remakes and revivals across genres and platforms in the post-network era in the United States, an impulse to ‘redo’ live programming on network television has also emerged in the on-going battle for consumer attention. Steadily gaining momentum over the past decade, this article questions the roles that nostalgia plays in structuring the surprising return of fictional event-based television. The evolution of this phenomenon is traced by first examining the wave of live network musical productions (2013–19), followed by the restaging of Norman Lear’s classic sitcoms in Live In Front of a Studio Audience (ABC 2019). Nostalgia’s connection to positive emotion is a powerful marketing tool that is manipulated across industries, and specifically leveraged through airing reperformances of these popular and identifiably nostalgic texts. However, despite reaching new levels of nostalgic indulgence, the live televisual remake opens-up new opportunities for collectivity and critical reflection for viewers in the digital age.

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Barth, Josie Torres. "Sitting Closer to the Screen: Early Televisual Address, the Unsettling of the Domestic Sphere, and Close Reading Historical TV." Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 34, no. 3 (December 1, 2019): 31–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7772375.

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This article makes a case for formal analysis of historical TV through close readings that demonstrate the ways in which postwar television unsettled the domestic sphere. While scholars of historical television have dismissed formal criticism for its ignorance of contexts of production and reception, I argue that the content and form of TV in its developmental years directly contextualize industry and society. In its first decades of mass use, television refigured spatial relationships by creating an uncanny liminality between the public sphere of commerce and entertainment and the private sphere of the home. These newly blurred boundaries had profound implications for postwar conceptions of gender, home, and family. Through both form and content, programs as wide-ranging as the science-fiction anthology The Twilight Zone (CBS, 1959–64) and domestic sitcoms The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (CBS, 1950–58) and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (ABC, 1952–66) developed modes of address to articulate and work through their viewers’ anxieties. In order to probe the wide-reaching implications of the new medium’s intimate address, I argue that scholars of historical television must be as attentive to program content, textuality, and form as they are to technological and industrial developments.

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Susanti Sitompul, Ignatia Evelyn, Rustono Farady Marta, and Cosmas Gatot Haryono. "Rangkaian Modalitas Kepedulian dari Struktur Generik Iklan Sirup ABC 2021." JUPIIS: JURNAL PENDIDIKAN ILMU-ILMU SOSIAL 13, no. 1 (June 15, 2021): 248. http://dx.doi.org/10.24114/jupiis.v13i1.24856.

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The holy month of Ramadan is a month that is highly anticipated by the people of Indonesia. We can find various kinds of messages during the Holy Month of Ramadan. This certainly encourages many people to compete to present unique and creative messages, one of which is by using advertising media. One of the food categories that uses television as marketing media is syrup products. They are competing to make an advertisement that is interesting and of course unique so that it can attract the interest of the wider community. In 2017-2020, ABC became one of the syrups that Indonesians are interested in. The advertisement that is currently appearing, namely the ABC syrup ad ‘Berbagi Rasa Kebersamaan Dibulan Ramadhan’ will be examined using John Bateman's multimodal semiotics using interpretive qualitative methods. Through this research, the meaning contained in the advertisement namely concern for fellow family. Therefore, this research can be seen how the ABC syrup advertisement promotes its products as a brand that cares about the moment of Ramadan in the advertisement of Sharing the Feelings of Togetherness in the Month of Ramadan.

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Noble, Grant, and Kate Freiberg. "Discriminating between the Viewing Styles of the Commercial and ABC Child TV Viewer." Media Information Australia 36, no. 1 (May 1985): 22–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x8503600109.

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In Australia discussion concerning the quality of children's television continues unabated. Over the years lobby groups have been successful in persuading the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal (ABT) to bring in Regulations requiring commercial TV stations to produce programs specifically for children and to broadcast them at certain times. While lobbyists have referred to a research base when it has suited their purposes, the points of view of the child audience have not always been consulted. The goal of this study is to attempt to redress the imbalance.

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Monk-Payton, Brandeise. "Introducing the First Black Bachelorette: Race, Diversity, and Courting Without Commitment." Communication, Culture and Critique 12, no. 2 (May 16, 2019): 247–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcz019.

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AbstractSince its premiere in 2002, The Bachelor (ABC) and its spinoffs have entertained television audiences with their depiction of individuals vying for love. However, the franchise has been critiqued for the lack of racial diversity in its contestant pool. This article examines the racialized and gendered logics of representation that frame the casting of the first black Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay. This article discusses the industrial conditions of possibility at the ABC network that led to Lindsay’s casting in 2017, which center on the cultivation of diversity in primetime programming. Yet the courting of a black female lead is done without a commitment to the specificities of targeting a black woman to be at the forefront of the competition to find love. This article details the construction of the African American female lead’s romantic journey and audience response at the intersections of race, gender, and the cultural politics of desire.

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Church, Scott Haden, Tom Robinson, Clark Callahan, Katherine Klotzer Barboza, and Daniel Montez. "Savvy viewers and (simulated) reality TV: An analysis of The Bachelor’s appeal to viewers." Journal of Popular Television 8, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 23–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jptv_00009_1.

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The reality television programme The Bachelor (2002‐present) has received a large amount of academic attention since it premiered on ABC in 2002. The majority of that literature approaches the show critically to address issues relating to the representation of race, gender, consumerism, identity and relationships within the format of a competition. Other research on the show ruminates about its relationship to its ‘savvy’ viewers who know reality television is not truly real and yet paradoxically continue to be highly invested in the outcome of its shows. Yet other literature probes for the gratifications embedded in the viewing process and the perceptions of dating that the show cultivates in its viewers. The longevity of The Bachelor can be attributed to the sense of allegiance the viewers feel to the show. To that end, this study is an inquiry into perceptions of the show by its viewers. Using the Q sort methodology, this empirical study reveals insights into its appeal by providing clearly grouped audiences and their particular uses for the show. It also addresses the interface between reality television, social media and the mediated representation of romantic relationships.

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Hamilton, Paula. "Remembering Changi: Public Memory and the Popular Media." Media International Australia 131, no. 1 (May 2009): 136–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0913100115.

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Media arenas are increasingly the place where most of our negotiation over the meaning of the past is carried out. Indeed, many commentators argue that television plays a particularly central role in the shaping of social memory. This paper seeks to examine how the various forms of media are changing the relationship between personal (and often silent) memories and public ones by asking what happens when personal memories of experience, which are not passed on within families — or only in a limited way — finally become public. I argue here that television and the internet, as increasingly interdependent cultural forms, have an important role in mediating between the personal experience and the public memory of events, as well as between genders and generations. As a case study, I examine the audience response to the television series Changi, aired on the ABC in 2001, using comments posted on the Changi guestbook internet forum. From this example, I examine how technologies of popular culture — especially new digital media — interact to create new ‘publics’, thus both increasing democratisation and access for individuals and also encompassing much larger collectives than in former times.

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