ACMA report finds alarming drop in Australian content on commercial TV broadcasters

For at least one commercial network, Australian children's content has dropped below 5%.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has released a new report on Australian content transmission quotas, which has found a massive drop in content compliance across all commercial free-to-air-broadcasters.

In layman’s terms, this means that the number of Australian shows on TV, and the amount of hours they are broadcast for, has reduced dramatically.

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Silvi Vann-Wall is a journalist, podcaster, and filmmaker. They joined ScreenHub as Film Content Lead in 2022. Twitter: @SilviReports