TVS begins digital broadcast
Sydney’s community television channel TVS has begun its digital broadcast on channel 44.
TVS is the first community station in Australia to begin simulcasting, after the Federal Government announced last year it would allocate vacant spectrum to community TV and $2.6m in funding to assist them to meet the costs of commencing digital transmissions.
Last year Encore documented community TV’s struggle to join the digital transition efforts.
TVS chief executive Laurie Patton said the transition was “essential”, because TVS complements other free-to-air networks and helps develop new talent. Patton expects that simulcasting (simultaneous analogue and digital broadcast) will increase TVS’s audience levels.
Community TV channels in Adelaide, Brisbane, and Melbourne are due to commence digital transmissions in the coming months. A new digital-only community channel is also expected to launch in Perth.
Conroy also announced today thatregional South Australia and Broken Hill will do the switchover to digital TV on December 15 – including the Spencer Gulf, Riverland, Mt Gambier and southeast South Australia. Other switchovers with confirmed dates are: Sunraysia on June 30 this year; Brisbane and Perth on June 30, 2013; and Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne on December 31, 2013.
Just wondering with the DIGITAL TV roll out when we could expect it in WOLLAR NSW, we have not got ANALOGUE yet so how long do we have to waite for DIGITAL….you politicians are so bloody amusing you actually make me laugh sometimes, and if you can’t get the TV stations to strengthen their signals you are going to make us PAY for FREE TV…..what a joke. It’s the 21st century, H E L L O !!!!!!, lets get TV to ALL the Australians….or is this going to be like the Telstra NEXT G…EVERYBODY in the country can have mobile phone service, doesn’t matter where you are, but you must be in a phone service area, other than that, EVERY AUSTRALIAN can have mobile service now……!?!?!?!?!
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