Abstract
Television played a critical political role in post-war cultures and was a site of imperial rivalries and cold war strategies. This article traces the history of the Australian Broadcasting Commission's (ABC) involvement in the British controlled television news agency that became known as Visnews. The agency, officially named the British Commonwealth International Newsfilm Agency (BCINA) was established to counter the power of American news agencies in the international trade in television news images that emerged after the Second World War. The ABC, through its newly established office in Singapore, undertook to manage the distribution of news from Asia. In doing so it became critical to the success of BCINA/Visnews. At the same time the international news agency provided a transnational space that allowed for the projection of nation internationally and that influenced the way in which the ABC implemented national policies for domestic news services.
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