Under the new code, from March 1 viewers will for the first time be able to lodge complaints against commercial broadcasters online.
``The community has expressed a strong preference electronic complaints lodgement and the ACMA has vigorously pursued this innovation to make it more convenient for viewers to lodge complaints.''
BROADCASTERS will be able to air extra advertising on their digital free-to-air channels and erase breaches of the rules governing free-to-air TV if they swiftly correct errors, under significant concessions given by the communications watchdog.