7-492: The Australian Broadcasting Control Board was an Australian government agency formed in 1949 whose main roles were to regulate commercial radio and television broadcasting. It was also the introducer and regulator for FM broadcasting. The agency held public hearings, issued commercial broadcasting licenses, and performed the technical planning for the National and Commercial broadcasting networks. The Postmaster-General's Department
14-723: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Postmaster-General%27s Department The Postmaster-General's Department ( PMG ) was a department of the Australian federal government , established at Federation in 1901, whose responsibilities included the provision of postal and telegraphic services throughout Australia. It was abolished in December ;1975 and replaced by the Postal and Telecommunications Department . Two separate legal entities had been established in July 1975 to take over
21-709: The Australian Postal Commission (trading as Australia Post ). In 1993 the Spectrum Management Agency was formed to take responsibility of radio and television broadcast licensing, which was then merged into the Australian Communications Authority, that later became the Australian Communications and Media Authority . Telecom Australia changed its name to Telstra in 1995 and has since been privatised. The department
28-458: The department's operations: Telecom Australia (colloquially "Telecom"; later became Telstra ) and Australia Post . The Postmaster-General's Department was created in 1901 to take over all postal and telegraphy services in Australia from the states and administer them on a national basis. The department was administered by the postmaster-general . The first permanent secretary of the department
35-676: The national broadcasting service. The ABC always handled the studio section of the national network The Australian Broadcasting Authority took over the functions of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal. On 1 July 2005, the Australian Broadcasting Authority and the Australian Communications Authority were merged to create a new agency, the Australian Communications and Media Authority . This Australian television-related article
42-501: Was Sir Robert Townley Scott , who held office from 1 July 1901 until his retirement on 31 December 1910. In its first 25 years, the department grew from 6,000 to 10,000 offices and from 18,000 to 47,000 staff. Earnings grew from £2.4 million to £10 million per annum. In mid-1975 the department was disaggregated into the Australian Telecommunications Commission (trading as Telecom Australia ) and
49-676: Was responsible for the engineering functions for the National transmitter facilities. Commercial broadcasters were responsible for their own construction and installation. The Australian Broadcasting Tribunal took over the functions of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board in the 1970s. The engineering function in some cases was handled by the National Transmission Authority , when the Postmaster-General's Department ceased being responsible for
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