Tag: Community TV

On This Day — 5 March

5 March 1969: Ken James and Garry Pankhurst (Skippy The Bush Kangaroo) 5 March 1994: Gary Sweet (Police Rescue) and son Frank 5 March 2005: Laurie Foell and Ben Unwin (Home And Away) 5 March 1993: The 7th World Youth Championship for soccer’s FIFA/Coca-Cola Cup, staged at the Sydney Football Stadium, is broadcast live on …

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Broadcast extension, again, for Community TV

The community television sector’s access to broadcast on free-to-air television has been a cause of much instability since 2014, when the then Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull decreed that community television must exit the airwaves by the end of 2015. The stations have been living an uncertain future ever since, as extensions to the cut-off date …

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Community TV gets a three-year extension

Some common sense prevails… for a while anyway. Community TV stations C31 Melbourne and 44 Adelaide have managed to secure a further three-year extension to their free-to-air broadcast licences. The decision, granted by the Federal Government, comes just days before both channels were scheduled to go off-air following the previous 12-month extension granted last year. …

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Digital TV turns 20

It is 20 years today since Australian television first entered the digital age with the commencement of digital transmission in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Digital television marked the most significant change in television viewing since the introduction of colour in 1975. With the advent of high definition, widescreen television, there was a lot …

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Obituary: Rob Gaylard

Rob Gaylard, former TV and radio presenter and prominent racing identity, has died suddenly at the age of 70. He had been a sports presenter at BTV6 in Ballarat in the 1980s, later moving to National Nine News in Melbourne. YouTube: rubicon nz He also worked as a newsreader at Bendigo-based Southern Cross Eyewitness News …

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Community TV given a 12-month extension

The Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts, Paul Fletcher MP has announced that community TV channels C31 in Melbourne and Channel 44 in Adelaide will be granted a 12-month extension in their free-to-air broadcast licences. The Minister announced the extension during ABC‘s Q&A program ahead of an official announcement to come tomorrow. The …

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Community TV granted two year extension

Community television is celebrating the granting of a further two year extension to its broadcast licences. Communications Minister Senator Mitch Fifield has granted stations C31 (Melbourne), 44 (Adelaide) and WTV (Perth) an extension to broadcast to 30 June 2020. The extension follows a recent round table discussion between the Government and the community television stations. …

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The year that was… 2017

Another year is now behind us! No doubt the biggest TV stories of the year surround the Ten Network — going into voluntary administration and then receivership before being taken over by US network CBS. The CBS takeover was a cunning move that caught most by surprise, not least being former Ten shareholders Bruce Gordon …

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Government confirms the axe to Community TV broadcasting

Community television is set to go off the air at the end of this month. Melbourne’s C31 has issued a statement to say that the government, namely the Department of Communications and Communications Minister Senator Mitch Fifield, has denied the sector, which also includes channels in Adelaide and Perth, any extension beyond the current end …

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Brisbane’s 31 Digital goes off-air

Brisbane’s community TV channel 31 Digital is now off the air and has converted to online operation. The station, which was operating on UHF Channel 28 from Mount Coot-tha, closed its free-to-air broadcast on 28 February at 11.59pm (AEST), even though the Federal Government had given the community TV sector a further six month reprieve after the …

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