Nine shareholder questions Chairman over “sex scenes, nudity & profane language.”
"Nine takes its responsibility as a broadcaster, seriously," Peter Costello tells offended shareholder.
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Yesterday at Nine’s Annual General Meeting, one shareholder Liam pressed Nine Entertainment Co. Chairman Peter Costello on racy content available on Nine.
The complaint centred around “sex scenes, nudity and profane language,” but Costello was ready with an appropriate reply that would have made the regulator proud.
“Nine takes its responsibility as a broadcaster, seriously,” he replied.
“There is a Classification system, which requires Nine to actually classify its programs and to give warnings in relation to content that people might find inappropriate. And of course, we’re regulated by ACMA, which prevents things that don’t meet community standards absolutely from being broadcast at all. So we do all of that and we do take that seriously.”
He even gave Liam advice of due process in case he still had an issue.
“Nine’s website contains details of how to make complaints about content which Nine airs and if you think we’re not complying with our obligations, please feel free to make a complaint.”
The question follows Nine being cleared by ACMA around classification over Married at First Sight episodes.
9Now is also booming thanks to Love Island Australia and also screens Love Island UK, Dating Naked, Naked Attraction, Naked Attraction Naughtiest Bits, Paradise Hotel, Real Housewives and more.
A long way from John Howard’s famous line on Big Brother, “Here’s a great opportunity for Channel Ten to do a bit of self-regulation and get this stupid programme off the air.”
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Photo: James Brickwood.
3 Responses
I wouldn’t get too hot and bothered by the ‘classified’ content described in the article. Just as the commercial free-to-air TV networks have lost audience numbers to various competitive sources such as the public broadcasters ABC and SBS, subscription streaming services Netflix, Amazon :Prime, Stan et al, they have also lost massive advertising revenue to Google, Facebook etc. The advertising The revenue goes to where the eye-balls are.
Although I am retired now, I once spent considerable sums on print and TV advertising. Not after midnight either, but prime time.
These days I wouldn’t bother. The quality of content is not there any more and nor is the audience. People have moved on. If Nine Entertainment feels that the only way to hold audience numbers is with cheaply produced titillating reality TV programming, then consider them as dog fighting with other dogs for the bone amongst the scraps.
I am a cord-cutter. I stopped watching the commercial FTA TV networks years…
You sound like a clone of me. And I thought I was the only one.
My neighbour was telling me she was flicking through the channels the other night & came across Gogglebox & they were watching Love Island. She said she couldn’t believe what she was seeing that it was pornographic. And she’s no prude.