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The Australian Communications and Media Authority has developed new captioning guidelines to provide more readable, accurate, and comprehensible captions in free-to-air TV and subscription TV broadcasters for deaf viewers.

TCN Channel Nine’s program A Current Affair aired a story featuring a mobile phone footage of a dispute between neighbours which revealed a participant’s privacy by including his name, part of his residential address, and unobscured video footage of his face without consent—breaching privacy rules, the Australia Communications and Media Authority has found.

Telecommunications provider Optus has affirmed the decision of the Federal Government to extend the funding for Viewer Access Satellite TV (Vast) to 2031/2032 in the budget, given that Optus has operated in the Vast platform since 2010 via its D3 and Optus 10 satellites.

When the Penrith Partners beat the Parramatta Eels during the 2022 NRL Grand Final last 2 October, record average streaming audience hit 389,000 viewers—up by 7% year-on-year—on 9Now, according to Nine and cloud company Akamai.

Broadcast and streaming services company MediaHub Australia has promoted Scott Jolly to the role of chief operating officer.

Freeview Australia's enhanced HbbTV service provides more seamless integration between broadcast and on-demand BVOD services.

Nine Entertainment has called for a regime to regulate dominant digital platforms — aka Google and Facebook — which would be administered by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and new powers for the competition watchdog to issue rules in order to encourage more competition.

Market researcher Roy Morgan says more than 9.8 million Australians have access to Netflix, and the number could pass the 10 million milestone this quarter.

A number of high-traffic websites have been affected by interfering with a single DNS setting at a popular domain registrar.

See drops of sweat flying directly at your face; hear the bone-crushing impacts and the mouth guards spinning to the back corner behind your sofa.  Yes, the State of Origin will be taking place right in your own living room with all the thrills of 3D television.  This is the hype, will the reality live up to it?