Editing Broadcast Operations Group (section)

==Controversy==
===Senate Inquiry===
The BOG was cited in several instances during a Senate Inquiry into Regional Radio. There had been concerns raised as to loss of localism due to networking of radio stations. Bill Caralis was asked to appear several times at various hearings around the country, but never attended.[http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/cita/regional_radio/radioreport.html]

===Local Content===
In October 2009, Broadcast Operations Group was named by the ABC's [[Media Watch (TV program)|Media Watch]] program for failing to provide sufficient local content as stipulated by ACMA licence conditions. Media Watch identified three stations; [[2HC]] Coffs Harbour, [[2EL]] Orange and [[2PM|Radio 531]] Port Macquarie, which all took the Grant Goldman breakfast show feed out of 2SM in Sydney and failed to meet local content conditions. In response to enquiries by Media Watch, Caralis stated that he believed local news, weather and community announcements played during the Grant Goldman program was sufficient to meet ACMA's licence conditions. As a result, ACMA launched an investigation into the matter. As of November 2009, this investigation was ongoing, however, as of 30 November 2009, the three aforementioned stations commenced broadcasting a three-hour locally produced program from 12&nbsp;pm weekdays.<ref>{{cite web|title=Regional Dis-Content|url=http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s2724641.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029172327/http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s2724641.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 October 2009|publisher=ABC TV|access-date=16 April 2014|date=26 October 2009}}</ref>

===Underpayment of staff===
Broadcast Operations Group has often been accused of a reluctance to pay experienced staff to cut operating costs.<ref>{{cite web|last=Wilson|first=Craig|title=Caralis now sacking staff before they start|url=http://www.mediahunter.com.au/caralis-now-sacking-staff-before-they-start/|work=Media Hunter|access-date=16 April 2014|date=18 February 2009}}</ref>

In September 2009, Broadcast Operations Group was found to have underpaid a journalist and has been ordered to make a $10,000 back payment. The journalist, who was studying communications at a Gold Coast university, worked part-time over a two-year period in the newsroom for Tweed Heads radio station [[2MW|Radio 97]] was graded as a cadet. The [[Fair Work Ombudsman]] found that the Journalist was performing tasks that would normally be given to a Grade 1, Band 1 journalist under the Commercial Radio Journalists Award.