Australia - Digital Media - The Media Industry - Document Details

Most of the media companies have a vested interest in protecting their traditional businesses. Over the last 50 years they have been able to obtain certain political advantages that have allowed them to carve our monopolistic markets. The new digital media are undermining their privileges and their grip on their monopolies. Forced by these changes they are now all jockeying for a position in the new Internet economy. Key industries covered in this report include TV and radio broadcasting, newspaper publishers, film and video industries. The industry has turned the corner and is now well and truly underway to also dominate the digital media market, launching events using their traditional media and supplementing them through new media activities. However, they will increasingly receive more competition from overseas media companies.

1. Synopsis
2. Media statement new government
3. TV broadcasters
- 3.1 The role of the broadcasters
- 3.2 Hanging on to the past
4. Radio broadcasters
5. Newspaper publishers
- 5.1 Industry failed to see changes
- 5.2 Dumbing down the media
- 5.3 Dumbing-down opens up new opportunities
- 5.4 Plenty of Digital Media opportunities
- 5.5 Multimedia news
- 5.6 Structural changes
- 5.7 Publishers need to move into the new media faster
- 5.8 Rear mirror strategies
- 5.9 Competition from the Internet media
6. The Thinking Society – market analysis
7. The video and DVD rental companies
- 7.1 Market trends and analysis
  - 7.1.1 The end of the video store?
  - 7.1.2 DVD rental companies
- 7.2 Local market developments
  - 7.2.1 DVD online rentals
- 7.3 Market statistics
  - 7.3.1 High definition DVD user statistics
8. Film and video producers
- 8.1 A few stats
  - 8.1.1 Pre-recorded DVDs
- 8.2 ABC digitises archives
- 8.3 The Broadband Cross-Media Production Initiative (BCPI)
- 8.4 The Film Australia Library
9. The anomaly of the mass media
10. Related reports