27 February 2025
Today’s acquisition of Southern Cross Austereo is an important moment both for Tasmanians TV viewers who were facing the prospect of a nightly bulletin being dropped and for our Tasmanian local media industry who were facing job cuts.
Senator Jonno Duniam led a cross-party push to the Southern Cross Austereo Chair in November 2024 that pushed for Tasmanian jobs to be maintained and guaranteed local Tasmanian content: “It is a massive win for our state and our media landscape.”
“We were facing cuts to our news service through no fault of our own. Thankfully, through this acquisition, we will instead see Tasmanian news coverage expanded.”
“Our media landscape will continue to have three nightly bulletins when we were faced with the prospect of two. It will ensure that a variety of viewpoints are heard and will enable even more Tasmanian stories to be told.”
“I am very pleased to see this outcome. Every Tasmanian should breathe a sigh of relief that we won’t be getting solely mainland stories on channel 7, as was potentially an outcome of this process.”