Media Insights

23 March 2005

Welcome to our first Media Insights of 2005.

There are several potentially significant changes affecting the future structure of the media industry on the agenda in 2005. In this edition we provide a brief overview of these issues and what lies ahead for the next 12 months.

This edition also includes our new "In the News" section, which contains brief analyses of topics which have recently made headlines.

Making sense of the year ahead

By Geoff Hoffman.

Possible changes to media ownership laws and the likely role of the ACCC in policing takeover activity, the take-up of digital TV and moves in digital radio - Geoff Hoffman looks at a big year ahead for the media industry.

In the news

The latest news including debates about anti-siphoning rules; personal digital recorders; prohibitions against broadcasting decoding devices; the impact of new accounting standards on the media industry; Microsoft's internet protocol TV; and Murdoch and cross-media ownership in the UK.

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