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Community Tv 31 Canned By Bad Government - POWERZONE - 10-09-2014
After 2015 C31 community channel will not be licensed to broadcast thanks to some dumb directive from a directionless Government. Instead, community TV broadcasters have to go online if they want to continue operating. What a stoopid decision.
Quote ABC,
The move will affect C31 in Melbourne and Geelong, 31 in Brisbane, TVS in Sydney, as well as 44 in Adelaide and WTV in Perth. Photo: The move will affect C31 in Melbourne and Geelong, 31 in Brisbane, TVS in Sydney, as well as 44 in Adelaide and WTV in Perth.
Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull today announced that community stations would only be licensed until the end of 2015.
After that, they would not be granted access to broadcast spectrum and Mr Turnbull suggested they use the internet instead.
Mr Turnbull unveiled the move in a speech to a conference hosted by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) in Sydney.
The move would affect C31 in Melbourne and Geelong, 31 in Brisbane and TVS in Sydney, as well as 44 in Adelaide and WTV in Perth.
Do you think the future of community television is online? Have your say.
Australian Community Television Alliance secretary Richard McLelland described it as a "death knell of community television in Australia".
Mr McLelland, who is also the general manager of C31, said he was frustrated by the decision.
"He [Turnbull] seems to have a view that community television is not worth having in this country," he said.
The community television stations currently use a small amount of spectrum that has been set aside for a fourth commercial television station.
Mr Turnbull told the conference the Government was not planning on licensing a new station.
Instead it could be sold off, with Mr Turnbull planning a review of whether the spectrum could be "replanned for alternative non-broadcasting uses, perhaps as the basis for a second digital dividend".
Online future for community television?
Mr Turnbull said the future for community television was online.
"The Government believes that the best outcome for community television is that, in the future, it uses the internet as its distribution platform," he said.
"It will deliver wider audiences at less cost on a wider range of devices."
But Mr McLelland said it would take time and money to make such a radical change.
"To get a seriously under-resourced sector to move to a completely new business model, to reconstruct itself in a little over 12 months, it's ludicrous to suggest that's reasonably possible."
He said if the Federal Government was willing to give community television stations three years instead of one to end licensing, a move to online-only broadcasting could be possible.
"Why not give us a little more time and explore a way for community television to continue?" he said.
It is not an argument Mr Turnbull accepts.
"The internet is not new," he said.
"It is the universal, uber-platform to which most people are now connected 24/7."
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Community radio will probably be next :o
Community Tv 31 Canned By Bad Government - treblid - 11-09-2014
What's the government going to do with the spectrum freed up by this? For NBN, or something else (data channel as the article seem to speculate)..
One year is way too short for the switch to Internet, and worse if the government don't provide the funding for the transition.
Community Tv 31 Canned By Bad Government - POWERZONE - 24-09-2014
Show your support for community television, local content and media diversity. Make your voice heard and demonstrate to Malcolm Turnbull that you have committed to community television by sending an email outlining the reasons why you believe community television is valuable and is worth preserving.
http://i.committocommunitytv.org.au/
Community Tv 31 Canned By Bad Government - Aloysius - 13-02-2015
We don't get that channel.
Community Tv 31 Canned By Bad Government - POWERZONE - 17-02-2015
Hi Peter, it's not due to go off until the end of the year.
Community Tv 31 Canned By Bad Government - POWERZONE - 17-02-2015
Depends on how early the election is
Community Tv 31 Canned By Bad Government - POWERZONE - 18-02-2015
Only what's in the first post in the thread. I'm unaware of any other developments.
Unless of course you're asking about the election? Yes, the election is due in 2016
lol