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Select committee submissions on the Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill favour its goals, but major structural, governance and cultural challenges remain unresolved.
Recent fines on media houses in Nigeria are attempts to gag them.
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Legendary broadcaster Red Barber took a chance on Scully when he asked him to be an announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Three years later, Scully was the voice of the World Series.
Another era: then opposition leader Tony Abbott (left) with Q&A presenter Tony Jones during the 2010 election campaign.
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Despite repeated pledges to improve diversity, data and industry testimony shows that there are fewer people from minority backgrounds getting jobs in the film and TV industries.
Father Coughlin’s bully pulpit.
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On March 12, 1933, President Roosevelt addressed the nation from the Oval Office during a time of great crisis. That ‘fireside chat’ proved broadcasting’s power as nothing before or since.
Susan Stamberg interviewed President Jimmy Carter during a National Public Radio call-in program in 1979.
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The Portuguese colonisers were not the only ones who could use radio for control. A new book tells how popular radio broadcasts from Angola’s liberation fighters were used as weapons in the struggle.
The first BBC television transmissions, September 1929.
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