Trust in TV News and Current Affairs

Q. How much trust do you have in the news and current affairs on the following TV channels?

	A lot of trust	Some trust	Not much trust	Don’t know
ABC	42%	42%	9%	6%
Channel 7	8%	53%	33%	6%
Channel 9	8%	54%	31%	6%
Channel 10	7%	55%	31%	6%
Sky News	12%	40%	17%	31%

42% say they have a lot of trust in the ABC news and current affairs and 42% have some trust. Only 9% have not much trust.

Levels of trust in the free-to-air commercial channels are similar – less than 10% have a lot of trust and over 30% say they have not much trust in them.

Sky News is trusted more than the other commercial channels – 12% say they have a lot of trust and only 17% have not much trust.

Highest levels of trust in the ABC are shown by men (47% a lot of trust), Greens voters (62%) and Labor voters (48%) and those on income over $1,600pw (49%).