That’s interesting. Apart from news and sport and big events I don’t see being “live” as the future of anything other than actually broadcast TV.
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My point was what about using YouTube instead of the broadcast, not downgrading the programming.
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Community TV is able to operate from sponsorships. Moving online there just isn’t the money there, that’s why all other channels have closed down and not moved online. Everyone knows this but the government just has a partisan reason for killing off community media.
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the channels stream online now but it’s free-to-air broadcast that gives it reach to mass audiences.
In the same way that the other networks stream live but its the free-to-air that reaches the masses
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This is ridiculous.
Just give them another long term multi year deal and put an end to the misery the community briadcasters been suffering for years now.
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Just say something definitive so that they can stop spinning their wheels.
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It’s also a big loss for small business who can only afford TV sales on Community TV, interesting that the Libs don’t at least care about that, I know they don’t care for minority representation.
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small businesses in Melbourne advertise on Prime7 and SCA Nine in Ballarat, Bendigo and Gippsland.
Cool, but that excludes 5million people in metro Melbourne.
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Isn’t that also pretty much only metro car dealers that bother advertising to regional areas?
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Presumedly a lot of content from Melbourne and Adelaide will go to Aurora on Foxtel, who’ve I’ve noticed have started filling a lot of their primetime schedule with Infomercials (!?!). I think they still charge producers $500 per half hour with a whole bunch of repeats.
Also it’s possible 7TWO, 9GEM and the like will offer slots for sale if it’s cost effective for producers to do that, the network’s think there’s a mainstream audience for it and it doesn’t look like it’s made on an iphone by a 5 year old. Is Vasili’s Garden still on 7TWO?
And the rest? Probably just Youtube and Vimeo.
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Aurora just isn’t worth it, you need to program weeks or months in advance, which leaves out timely content, it’s expensive and has a tiny footprint compared to CTV.
Most likely 90% or more will cease existing as they’re made by groups who don’t have people involved who can do it without CTV support, and the viewership or even the producers don’t have the technical capacity or knowledge to continue online. It’ll be devastating for many, many groups. Especially for older audiences and migrant communities.
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most community TV makers probably don’t have a budget for buying airtime?
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Have they thought about setting its own AVOD system?
31 Brisbane tried that - they switched off and went to streaming and now it’s all gone. Turned into a renamed service with no content (hitchhike.tv) - to the point where all the remnant audience of 31 is now gone - including the original url, so any audience needs to be built up again from scratch.
The things that can survive online have already done so - migrating to YouTube, Facebook pages and the like - the unique thing about community TV was the broadcast platform. C31 and 44 Adelaide will likely suffer a similar fate - as much as they will try hard to keep it together, they will struggle - the shows that need community TV the most are the ones with audiences that will find an online migration the hardest, or don’t have sufficient internet at all.
A new platform isn’t what’s needed - the old platform is.
As an aside to anyone who bothers trying to edit that site, no, C31 Melbourne did not switch off in March - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_television_in_Australia
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Well yes and no. Depends how profitable the show is. Shows like ‘Blokesworld’ can manage on 7Mate and Aurora (it airs on both), but perhaps a Melbourne centric Greek language program probably won’t make the cut.
I agree though a lot of the content probably won’t make the transition to online and/or other broadcasters.
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