A new handout to pensioners for digital television joins the list of gifts to the TV networks. Television has now become a human right in Australia.
Digital television
Seven permitted multichanneling of sports and news
Stephen Conroy has announced that Channel Seven are permitted to multichannel the tennis on 7Two. With the event on the anti-siphoning list, broadcasters are restricted from scheduling sports like this away from their primary analogue channel, writes Dan Barrett.
Digital Television: one decade on
Boy, how the time flies. Ten years ago on January 1, 2001 digital television was launched in Australia. Crikey TV blogger Dan Barrett remembers coughing up $799 for a set top box. Now digital TV has passed more than three quarters of the population.
Polishing Nine’s new women’s-only GEM
Get ready for the launch of Nine Network’s new digital channel aimed at women over 35, named GEM (general entertainment and movies). Expect classic female Wife Swap and Random Acts of Kindness, with Nine CEO dubbing it “a warm and classy channel.”
Seven wins: click go its (audience) shares
The Seven Network has won the metro TV ratings battle for the third year running, writes Glenn Dyer, but Ten boasted it was the biggest winner with the best increase in audience and the highest rating TV events of the year, MasterChef Australia and the AFL grand final.
Community TV finally gets the digital green light
Fans of giant microphones and awkward presenting rejoice: after a hard-fought campaign by Australia’s community TV stations, the government has finally agreed to allocate them a vacant spectrum to simulcast their broadcasts — at least until the switch to digital-only TV in 2013
Community TV is on its death bed, when will Conroy step in?
Digital television is screwing community television stations like Channel 31, since they are stuck broadcasting in analogue and not yet allocated any space on the digital network. Emma Rugg explains.
