Anonymous
Years ago

New FTA TV Stations?

Was just reading this article from September 2006: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20398870-2,00.html. Senator Coonan today said two new channels, known as Channel A and Channel B, would fill two unallocated lots of spectrum and help drive digital take-up among Australian consumers.

The Government hopes the new channels will spur on the development of new digital services.

"Both channels will be auctioned as separate national licences, with Channel A to be used for in-home, free-to-air digital services and Channel B for innovative new digital services such as mobile television," Senator Coonan told Question Time today.

"A potential model for Channel B could be a mobile (phone) TV offering, integrated with 3G mobile telephony and internet services, made available on a subscription basis."

What ever happened to this. Did they abandon the idea or is still a in progress. Never even heard about this until today.

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JohnnySack
Years ago

I think they re-wrote the legislation last year which gave the current FTA players protection against a new FTA station (and the added competition therein) until 2010-12... Originally this protection was to expire in 2007 - but they rolled it out again... The current players are ###tscared about the implications of another FTA player (especially since it is likely to be owned by "our Rupert" - and he has deep pockets and access to a lot of content at cost)...

So - in short... you are going to have to wait at least 2 more years (and remember that is just settling the license - setting up and beginning transmission will be at least another 12 to 18 months thereafter)...

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Anonymous
Years ago

bugger, that sucks.

thanks for the johnny.

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