Bill
Broadcasting Services Amendment (Regional Commercial Radio and Other Measures) Bill 2020
passed, as at 2020-11-20. Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-06-11
- second reading — 2020-06-11
- second reading — 2020-06-16
- second reading — 2020-09-02
- second reading — 2020-11-09
- second reading — 2020-11-09
- third reading — 2020-11-09
- introduced — 2020-11-10
- second reading — 2020-11-10
- second reading — 2020-11-12
- second reading — 2020-11-12
- third reading — 2020-11-12
- passed — 2020-11-12
- royal assent — 2020-11-20
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2020-06-11.
The bill would change rules for regional commercial radio and television broadcasters.
It would let radio stations split exemption periods from local news obligations into two periods totalling up to five weeks, and simplify compliance after ownership changes.
For regional television, it would allow licensees to be deemed compliant with Australian content quotas if they broadcast at least as much Australian content on their multi-channels as the equivalent metropolitan multi-channel does in the same year.
- Regional commercial radio licensees could split exemption periods from local news and information obligations into two periods.
- The compliance regime for minimum service standards after a trigger event would be simplified.
- A deeming provision would let regional and remote commercial television licensees count as meeting the Australian content multi-channel quota if their multi-channel Australian content is not less than the amount on the equivalent metropolitan multi-channel.
Regional commercial radio broadcasting licensees and regional and remote commercial television broadcasting licensees.
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