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Australia Plans to Force Facebook and Google to Pay for News (But ABC and SBS Miss Out)
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released its draft news media bargaining code, announced Friday by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. The draft code allows commercial news businesses to bargain – individually or collectively – with Google and Facebook, in order to be paid for news the tech giants publish on their services. According to ACCC…
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SBS To Air World Cup Games Because Optus Is Still A Hot Mess
Optus has announced that SBS will be airing all World Cup games over the next 48 hours. The announcement comes after a slew of complaints from customers who have been experiencing connectivity issues and dropouts while trying to use the Optus Sport streaming service. In fact it got so bad that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull…
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Meet Eight Prominent Indigenous Australians In SBS’s First Contact VR Experience
We’ve written about SBS’s virtual reality app before, and pointed out some of the cool experiences that our national multicultural broadcaster has featured through it. Today’s update adds eight interviews with prominent Indigenous Australians, filmed as part of First Contact 2, the final episode of which is airing on SBS tonight.
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SBS Has A New On Demand Virtual Reality App
SBS will today become the first Australian broadcaster to launch a Virtual Reality app, SBS On Demand VR, allowing audiences to explore the latest 360° videos produced by SBS and the independent production community.