Anonymous
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I want the government to legislate to prohibit SBS from interrupting programs for commercial breaks. Stop the ads on SBS.
The introduction of advertising to SBS and the interruptions into program for advertisement breaks in particular, has changed SBS from a very special broadcaster of the past, into a defacto commercial look-a-like. The strong commercialisation of SBS, has morphed it to a generalist broadcaster with fewer programs in languages other than English (LOTE) with subtitles in prime time, than previously was the case.
Under the current management and Board, aside from the lack of true commitment towards multiculturalism and a reduction in LOTE programming, SBS has demonstrated a loss of respect for its viewers through annoying commercial interruptions that only serve to on-sell viewers as a product to the clients of SBS, its advertisers. This is at odds with how a good public broadcaster should be. This approach lacks good corporate public service broadcasting governance.
Return SBS to the excellent station it used to be.
