Australian TV industry - General Discussion

Yeah. Me. :rofl: and you if you dress up in women’s clothing. :rofl: :rofl:

If they’re looking for extras to play elderly dead bodies in Threads 2: Electric Boogaloo, then yes.
Also, he’s only saying it because he’ll get a cut of any work he does. So there’s an economic imperative for him.

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Found This as the 2025 Federal Election could come at anytime. https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/kordia-report-broadcast-tv-spectrum-consolidation-2021-final.docx

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Doubt we will see DVB-T2. Changeover will be too costly for an industry that has no spare money to spend anymore.
The continued use of SD transmission drives me away to the same program being available in HD elsewhere. For RF transmission to continue, all program content will need to be HD to keep viewers who are increasingly drifting to streaming where content is mostly simulcast streamed in HD.
Is more than likely some broadcasters will continue to use their current TX plant until it breaks to a point of no longer being economically viable to maintain, SCA comes to mind here.
The only way for this to occur is for the Govt to pay industry for the changeover funded by proceeds from released spectrum sale.

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It’s probably about time that all the main channels were broadcasting in HD on 2,3,7,9,10. Why are we so far behind the rest of the world?

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There is also some incentive for broadcasters to move to DVB-T2… it will mean all 5 networks can share 2-3 frequencies, reducing TX maintenance/transmission/equipment replacement costs.

But agree Govt will probably need to fund at least part of it.

One Solution with the Federal Election, Write to Oppostion Leader Peter Dutton.

As if that’s going to do anything :rofl::rofl:

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there’s a renewed push by Brisbane city Council to get the stations off Mt Coo-tha and get the land restored prior to 2032.

I’ve been told there is a belief that they want to use Mt Coo-tha as a marketing tool and ā€œhaving large warehouse style structures up there is not a good lookā€ - never mind there is no plans to remove the numerous broadcast towers which in my opinion are a worse look than the studios - the studios are hidden in the scrub whereas the towers are visible all over brisbane (and are in fact used as a landmark by pilots)

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that would be a good argument to keep them, then?

And where else would they go?

I can’t think where else you could move them too though, not to mention all the issues it would cause in people having to repoint their antennas all at once and that it might create new or different blackspots.

There have been proposals in the past to build a single concrete tower as a tourist attraction that would remove all the metal towers.

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they don’t want to remove the towers - just the station buildings

Yeah i know it was just in response to ā€œnever mind there is no plans to remove the numerous broadcast towers which in my opinion are a worse look than the studiosā€.

Hell?

Let me guess…how much did the broadcasters pay the BCC to say that?

Fuck them. They can stay there, imprisoned like an princess from a fairy tale, except much more uglier.

I like seeing broadcast towers, they are not an issue for me at all.

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Yeah, not for you, but for city councils and corrupt broadcasters, they detract from any money making opportunity they have. You watch. BCC will be ā€œpersuadedā€ to rezone the joint for multi-million dollar residential properties owned by corrupt property developers or corrupt foreign nationals.

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They need to stay there for reasons I outlined further above. The only alternative is a consolidated tower in roughly the same spot like ā€˜TV Cynic’ posted.

The buildings can go anywhere else in Brisbane of course.

tbh that’s more of an eyesore than the towers it would be replacing

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