JAN20

What is Media Studies?

With tertiary students across the nation preparing to dive into Communications type degrees, we thought it timely to find out a bit more about Media Studies.

Is it just an academic diversion for couch potatoes? Andrew asks Monash University's Dr Tony Moore and Associate Professor Mark Gibson to discuss.


LABELS:    20th Century Fox    ABC    Ten

JAN06

Molly, get well soon - Australian music video fans need you

We're hoping Molly recovers from his Christmas tumble soon because with the alarming dearth of music clip shows on tv these days, the ABC might just need to dust off Countdown.

When Ten axed music clip show Video Hits last year after 24 years, it became the latest casualty of viewer fragmentation. Apparently not in keeping with the increasingly sophisticated ways youth audiences are engaging with music, the show was binned, leaving just one lonely stalwart serving up a menu of music clips, ABC's Rage.

So where does that leave music loving audiences (and musicians)? Andrew asks Singer Melissa Tkautz and former Channel V'ster Nathan Harvey.


LABELS:    ABC    Ten