ABSTRACT
At the start of the 1990s, the Australian television system was in a state of shock. Commercial television had just gone through the largest and most disruptive round of ownership change and speculative investment in Australia’s history. Caused by a major change in ownership policy, it had left the sector mired in debt. At the same time, the final phase of introducing television to this large continent was being played out with the extension of the full range of terrestrial channels to those living in regional Australia. The country was being bound together as never before by networks of time and space.
