Summary
Amends the:
Broadcasting Services Act 1992
to: enable regional commercial radio broadcasting licensees to nominate to split exemption periods from local news and information content obligations into two periods, together totalling no more than five weeks; amend the minimum service standard obligations which apply after a trigger event occurs; and permit regional and remote commercial television broadcasting licensees to be deemed to have complied with the multi-channel Australian content quota obligation in certain circumstances; and
Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005
to enable the Australian Communications and Media Authority to delegate an information-gathering power.