Information about digital television (TV) reception issues and the Viewer Access Satellite Television (VAST) service.

The vast majority of Australians can access television programs from the national broadcasters—the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS).

The content of commercial television programs must comply with conditions in the station’s licence, ACMA program standards, and industry codes of practice.

Community television services currently have temporary access to spectrum to broadcast to 2 mainland state capitals.

The Australian Government has committed to legislating a prominence framework to ensure local TV services are easy for Australian audiences to find on connected TV devices.

The Department commissions research into Australians’ usage, attitudes, habits and expectations about the things we watch and the devices we use to watch them. This includes through the Media Content Consumption Survey and the Television Consumer Survey.

Information about Australia's media laws, media regulation, classification and how to make a complaint.

The Government has announced a package of measures to help sustain Australian media businesses as they do their vital work of keeping the community informed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Government is supporting Australian screen content by injecting $53 million for the development and production of local content as well as modernising Australian content regulation.

Television captioning and audio description help people who have a hearing or vision impairment access television programs.

Smaller or more isolated Australian communities can provide their own retransmission equipment to receive and locally retransmit a broadcasting service (radio or television).

The Government is investing more than $60 million in quality regional journalism.

The anti-siphoning scheme aims to give free-to-air broadcasters a chance to show major events included on an anti-siphoning list.