Both ABC and SBS enjoy broad public support. Additionally, viewers of public service broadcasters in Australia have higher levels of political knowledge than consumers of commercial news. Jones and Pusey (2010), for instance, find positive correlations between respondents who watch ABC or SBS regularly and are able to provide correct answers to basic questions concerning the Australian political system and current events. Conversely, those responding incorrectly to these questions were correlated with a preference for commercial sources, leading the authors to write: “the high correlation between reliance on commercial television for news and information and lack of political knowledge is.
