Federal government 'highly exposed to any crisis' as viability of regional TV teeters, new research for Swinburne University of Technology warns

By James Joyce
Updated October 11 2021 - 8:41pm, first published 5:00am
Competition for audiences from global streaming giants like Netflix and the online video-on-demand "catch-up" services of the metropolitan networks that provide the bulk of their programming are eroding the revenues of regional TV companies.
Competition for audiences from global streaming giants like Netflix and the online video-on-demand "catch-up" services of the metropolitan networks that provide the bulk of their programming are eroding the revenues of regional TV companies.

Without federal government action, the commercial free-to-air television industry serving regional Australians is likely to become "consistently unprofitable" within three years resulting in the "elimination of all local production and journalism".

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