Apr 14 2010
Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy has announced a landmark deal that will see digital TV made available to viewers in remote and regional parts of Australia not accessible by terrestrial digital television. A joint venture company, Viewer Access Satellite Television (VAST), has been formed between Macquarie Southern Cross Media …
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Mar 27 2010
Yesterday marked the first anniversary of the launch of Australia’s first free-to-air sports channel, One HD. The channel, an off-shoot of the Ten Network, marked the first genuine commercial multi-channel with a full 24/7 schedule and unique branding that offered clear differentiation from the primary channel. In its first year, One has secured rights to …
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Mar 15 2010
Freeview, the free-to-air networks’ digital platform, is to unveil a new advertising campaign declaring that “the VCR is dead” as new technologies such as personal video recorders (PVRs) are being adopted by households in growing numbers. The Australian reports that around 100,000 digital tuners are being sold every month – as Australia converts from analogue …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2010/03/r-i-p-video-cassette-recorder.html
Jan 21 2010
ABC is set to launch Australia’s first 24-hour free-to-air news channel this year. The new channel, announced today by ABC managing director Mark Scott, will broadcast on the digital platform and will serve as a competitor to Australia’s only other continuous news channel, Sky News Australia, which is available on pay-TV. The new channel follows …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2010/01/abc-to-launch-news-channel.html
Jan 14 2010
The Government has started playing commercials, specific to the Mildura/Sunraysia area, to remind viewers that local analogue signals will be shut down in less than six months – 30 June to be exact: Viewers will notice a couple of familiar names in the campaign – Rebekah Elmaloglou, best known from Home And Away, and David …
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Nov 21 2009
MySpace-Countdowns The countdown is now officially on. The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has set a date for the first shutdown of analogue TV services. Mildura, in Victoria’s North West, will be the first region in Australia to lose analogue television when its switch-off occurs on 30 June 2010. …
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Jun 16 2009
For digital viewers in regional eastern Australia, the wait is almost over for the new sports channel One HD. Macquarie Southern Cross Media (MSCM), the owner of Southern Cross Ten, has announced that it will start to relay One through its existing high-definition service on digital channel 50 from 2 July at 7.00pm. Southern Cross …
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Mar 30 2009
The managing director of SBS, Shaun Brown, has announced plans to relaunch the network’s digital channel currently known as SBS World News Channel. Speaking at the Get Ready for Digital conference in Sydney, Mr Brown announced that the new channel, SBS2, will replace the World News Channel on 1 June. SBS2 will feature a mix …
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Feb 06 2009
The Ten Network has announced a launch date for its new digital channel OneHD. The new channel, to be devoted 24 hours a day, seven days a week to sport, will make its debut on 26 March. The launch of OneHD marks the first true multi-channel from the commercial networks in that it provides, in …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2009/02/ten-plus-one-in-march.html
Nov 24 2008
For most of the time, our free-to-air networks are fighting the battlegrounds of the all-important ratings, defending their territories (ie. audience shares), justifying their existences and, sometimes, sending out smarmy press releases to try and taint or taunt the opposition. But from tonight, a little bit of that fierce rivalry is chipped away, just slightly, …
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