On Localvision which was community TV (cable access).
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Fair enough. Hadnt heard of In Pit Lane to be honest. But we are still the only show to be produced entirely by students 
This was a great initiative of Optus who had different owners at the time. Refreshing to see their investment in community content.
Imagine what could be achieved today if Optus invested in digital community content with a comparative budget.
I wouldnât be surprised if we see KCTV on Optus any time soon 
Quiz Night is better
It might be better but itâs no Karaoke Kangaroo
Those were the daysâŚ
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Some six years after terrestrial community TV was meant to shut down in the first place.
Vale TVS and 31 Digital, for your deaths were in vain
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Jesus, they keep giving them extensions - they may as well let them keep their licenses at this rate and I think they should.
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For 6 years of extensions you can pretty well surmise that there really no reason to take their licences off them
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My bet is their best argument for ditching CTV is thwarted by a lack of plan to reallocate the spectrum they occupy
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Iâm surprised the telcos havenât started lining up to get a slice of the community TV spectrum, given it penetrates buildings pretty well.
If anything this decision reflects more on the indecision of Communications Minister Mitch Fifield.
Theyâre just flogging a dead horse by keeping the channel on-air. 
Wrong frequencies for telcos. They would want higher UHF channels.
And pity that just about everyone that has replaced their TV antennas in recent times in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth have gone for VHF only. Thereby denying the community stations some of their audience.
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There is a 450MHz standard for LTE in some countries, that would be a disaster here.
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They already got caught out on the âtesting purposesâ excuse. Look at the T2 trial on VHF-10 and UHF-28.
I can just hope that at the next election, LNP get thrown out and replaced with someone who wonât want to remove them off the air.
Iâm certainly not suggesting this a valid reason for TVS going off air but the last I checked, UHF-29 (the frequency previously used by TVS for their DVB-T broadcasts from Gore Hill) is actually being used for the current DVB-T2 tests from Kings Cross and Manly/Mosman.
Where I think the future of community TV (or whatâs left of it) will get really interesting is if/when we transition to DVB-T2âŚpresumably ACMA may start to think of that by the time we approach 20 years of regular DVB-T broadcasts in Australia.
Thereâs no reason not to give community TV a portion of the capacity on the DVB-T2 multiplex - a little over 1Mbps would be fine to carry their existing single SD channel in HEVC.
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Yeah. Labor never did community TV any favours either by blocking its transition to digital and even then only granting it a 5 year licence, giving the Libs the opportunity to pull the rug from under them.
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Brisbaneâs 31 Digital was a poorly run organisation beset by coups and a lack of vision. If it has the quality of management seen in Adelaide and Melbourne, it would still be on air.
Well said as always @TelevisionAU
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