The Federal Government belatedly granted the free TV spectrum extension after intervention by former independent Senator Nick Xenophon and massive media and community backlash about planned closure to community TV.
Channel 31/44 General Manager Matthew Field delivered resurrection news.
“The reality is that the spectrum we currently occupy is valuable and there is no doubt that in the future demand for spectrum will be driven by the data and digital economy,” Field revealed.
“But we have not been able to establish why there is such a rushed determination to kick us off air in the absence of any planned alternative use of our spectrum before 2019. In the context of the explosion of shopping and racing channels on free-to-air TV and concerns around the lack of diverse Australian voices in mainstream media, it is particularly puzzling that Community TV should be so readily kicked off free-to-air.”
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