Australian TV

The Bill is the ABC's top rated drama. It has plenty of merchandising back up and various members of the cast regulalrly tour Aus, make chat show appearances etc. The Beech spin off filmed in Aus was deliberatley made to reflect The Bill 's poularity 'down under' .

If only the ABC was having an Australian Drama success. Currently there's a big financial crisis with the ABC and it's drama content has gone from 120 hours a year to 20 hours a year.

The ABC is biased to the liberal party.

Good

Well here's the ratings for 21 July 2005

Seven 28
Nine 26.5
Ten 17.9
SBS 15.9
ABC 11.7

Source Mediaspy,

That has to be the highest figures for SBS ever! They're showing The Ashes and Le Tour de France

Why?

yes why?
The state broadcaster shouldn't be biased towards any particular party !
and I don't think the ABC is Liberal biased particularly - they are usually bashed by the government for not supporting them enough!

who's covering the ashes in Australia and is it in widescreen?

SBS TV is covering The Ashes and yes it's in widescreen.
And to the reason as why the ABC is sometimes accused of bias against the "ruling" Coalition of ABC (and SBS) haters is because they hate each other so badly. The ABC has cut it's drama quotent to just 14 hours this year! $600 MILLION was allocated to the ABC this year in the Federal Government's Budget. This is a decrease of almost 30% ever since John Howard came into government and guess what's on HIS upcoming agenda: PRIVATISATION

Thanks ABC Australia, has it got Sky Sports graphics, or Channel 4 ones? Thanks again.

I've just noticed PRIME NZ (Affiliate to 9 in NZ) is using sky news astons.

Yep they use the sky news graphics and set. When sky news changed to there current astons whenever they did prime news also used sky news australias previous astons when they did.