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The ABC has markedly changed its stance towards Google and Facebook, now that the ACCC is pushing for the digital platforms to pay news organisations for using their content.

Trust in news sources has fallen by 2% globally, but in Australia the fall is much steeper, at 6%, according to the annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report.

Optus has decided to simulcast the remaining matches of the World Cup exclusive to its Optus Sport service — the round of 16 and the quarter-finals — with public broadcaster SBS.

Despite claiming that its network has held up well while streaming World Cup matches after the initial fiasco, Optus says it will not decide until the end of the week whether to simulcast the round of 16 and the quarter-finals on public broadcaster SBS.

Telecommunications provider Optus says its Optus Sport service is being modified so that it can be accessed free of charge until 31 August, as per the announcement by its chief executive Allan Lew on Wednesday.

What did Optus chief executive Allan Lew mean when he announced on Wednesday that Optus Sport would be free to all Australians until 31 August? Did he mean that the content would be free?

Public broadcaster SBS will simulcast all remaining group matches of the World Cup football tournament along with Optus, in an agreement with the telco which has been dogged by issues with broadcasting games on its network.

The World Cup football streaming disaster could have been avoided had SBS been broadcasting the tournament in full as in the past, the Australian Labor Party claims, adding that the public broadcaster could not bid for full rights due to funding cuts by the Federal Government.

Fifty-eight percent of those who consume news in Australia do so on their smartphones, the first time this percentage has overtaken the consumption on computers and tablets, according to the seventh annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018.

Avoid the dreaded #FloptusSport fail. The World Cup only comes once every four years but the long notice hasn’t seemed to give Optus enough time to provide a service that fulfils its one and only job – to display the World Cup on its World Cup app.

Free TV and Broadcast Australia — a BAI Communications Company —  in partnership with ABC, SBS and TXA, a company that provides television transmission for broadcasters, have successfully completed the first phase of next-generation television laboratory trials.

The submission made by the Special Broadcasting Service, better known as SBS, to the ACCC digital platforms inquiry, is no longer accessible on the Web.

With the "Streaming Wars" in full swing, the growth of streaming services in Australia keeps growing with some must-see streaming TV stats from Switch Media.

Indigenous storytelling is continuing across the SBS network, with the launch of its new interactive documentary, K’gari, today, being a prime example.

Australia's second public broadcaster SBS appears to have got into the online snooping game with gusto. The network, which lives mostly off public funds, but also raises some money from advertising, has made its collection of archived programme videos only open to those who register.

The radio industry has joined forces to launch a new mobile app — RadioApp — which live streams programmes from 250 radio stations in Australia to smartphones.

Global communications services giant Ericsson has secured an exclusive media delivery services contract with the SBS television network to aggregate and deliver content from multiple international content owners and distributors to the broadcaster’s Sydney headquarters via its London broadcast and media services hub.

Instead of the usual “green screen” that is behind TV news and weather presenters, SBS World News has elected to use a new Panasonic HD, 1920 x 1080, LED picture wall.

SBS has enhanced its iPhone and iPad app, promising "the world’s best TV shows and movies as well as their favourite SBS shows".

Ad blocking technology is a growing threat to the digital advertising industry, according to global professional services firm, Accenture, which says that despite this many Australians say they would pay to eliminate ad interruptions to their TV viewing.