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‘I cannot recall in recent memory a more widely framed licence condition on an Australian broadcaster,’ the Australian Communications and Media Authority Chairman, Chris Chapman, said today.
‘The Authority feels this is the tightest licence condition that can be imposed on this licensee concerning matters of decency; and is 24/7, for five years, no exceptions.
‘Further, [...]
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Welcome to the 2012 edition of the ACMA’s Five-year spectrum outlook. Published for the first time as an electronic magazine, the Outlook is now more streamlined and easy to navigate.
The Outlook is an annual publication that considers the range of the radiofrequency spectrum from about 500 kHz to 80 GHz. Most of the competing [...]
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The ACMA has granted Nextgen Networks Pty Ltd a non-protection zone permit to lay submarine cable off the coast of Perth. The permit is for a nationally significant fibre-optic submarine cable that will link Perth and Singapore. The permit issued by the ACMA authorises construction of a submarine cable from City Beach in metropolitan Perth through the Perth [...]
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The agenda for RadComms2012 is now available. You can view this agenda here with full details of this year’s impressive line-up of session themes and speakers.
Continue Reading →Dr Compton Tucker, Senior Research Scientist in the Earth Sciences Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland, will lead the session on ‘Fingerprints of nature’ at RadComms2012. His presentation, ‘Observing climate with satellites—are we on thin ice?’, will highlight the importance of spectrum to our geological understand [...]
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We are excited to announce that Professor John Dickey will be speaking at RadComms2012, to be held in Melbourne on 6 and 7 June. Professor Dickey will be speaking in the opening session, ‘Fingerprints of nature’.
Radio astronomers find their way through the cracks and dark alleys of the spectrum, searching for quiet corners where they [...]
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The ACMA is today releasing its indicative timetable for the reissue of expiring spectrum licences. The workplan is concentrated over the next four years and is scheduled according to licence expiry.
The ACMA’s objective is to provide reissue certainty to licensees 18 months prior to licence expiry, where possible. An important part [...]
Continue Reading →Kyle Sandilands’s controversial comments about a female journalist, broadcast on licensee 2DayFM’s The Kyle and Jackie O Show in November 2011, breached the decency provisions of the Commercial Radio Codes of Practice, an ACMA investigation has found. An audio file of the press conference is here.
A hi-res video of ACMA Chairman [...]
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Interested industry stakeholders are invited to learn about the outcomes from the recent World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12) at a comprehensive debrief event to be held in Canberra on 23 April.
Members of the 41-strong Australian delegation, who joined more than 3,000 participants at the four-week conference, will discuss the conference outcomes, which were generally in [...]
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The recent need to shut down a number of unlicensed radio stations has prompted the ACMA to remind the community that licences are mandatory for all broadcasting stations operating on the AM or FM broadcast bands.
Following an incident in October 2011 in which ACMA inspectors shut down a pirate AM broadcasting station operating from [...]
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