Media watchdog bites Bill Caralis Super Radio Network after investigation
25May10

Seven months after ABC’s Media Watch program claimed that Bill Caralis was “cynically dudding his regional listeners” for not meeting their local content obligations under the Broadcasting Services Act, the media watchdog ACMA has agreed after releasing the findings of its investigation of the network.

In a ACMA report into 2HC Coffs Harbour, 2EL Orange and 2PM Kempsey, they were found to have failed to meet the minimum three hours requirement.

2HC and 2PM were found to have broadcast approximately five minutes of local content respectively on September 8 – the sample business day ACMA used in its investigation – while 2EL broadcast approximately 46 minutes.

The Bill Caralis owned stations have been ordered to report periodically to the AMCA detailing how they are meeting their local content requirements and to implement training for employees so as to meet broadcast requirements.

Read the full ACMA release here

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