The CTV + app is available exclusively on Apple, it is not available on Android.
Does the new App carry the live streams?
I feel that by doing this, the company showed apathy towards community TV.
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Website still says coming soon https://ctvplus.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/coming-soon-google-play-300x86.png
Had a quick look yesterday. Couldnāt see a guide? That would be handy. Also when I looked, the C44 stream had no sound 
ATV app would be good too.
They really need to make an effort for a smart TV App.
Otherwise, the very slow progress so far makes me think they are still thinking terrestrial is their main game when the rest of the FTA broadcasters are moving heavily to on-line. The way it is going, the other networks will fully transition to on-line before what is left of the community TV sector does.
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I couldnāt agree more. Everyone is watching TV using made-for-TV apps. They need to forget mobile and pour whatever resources they have into getting in alongside Netflix/7plus/9Now/etc on TVs.
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Exactly!!
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C31 currently showing a 100-year-old āsilentā film Melbourne - CTV Plus
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Good old public domain content.
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The GF edition of Marngrook Footy Show will air on Channel 31 and Facebook Live at 7.30pm AEST tonight. It will be hosted by Grant Hansen and Warwick Capper, with Leila Gurruwiwi, Doug Hawkins, former Demons player Jay Kennedy Harris and former Richmond player Phil Egan (author of original external review commissioned by Hawthorn).
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Ugh. For years her government tried to take community TV off the air. Now sheās taking credit because that government only caved in to keep it on air (for only 3 years, btw) after years of fierce campaigning. The absolute state of it.
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Sheās an awful human being. Labor is the one that kept it on air.
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Both parties have treated the sector badly. Labor didnāt do community TV many favours, either, when it was in government last time around.
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Still remember the shitfight over digital spectrum access like it was yesterday. Totally inefficient allocating a whole channel to the CTV stations will restricting them from any form of multicasting (let alone HD!).
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Yeah it makes no sense, they only need one SD channel.
The Darwin HPON (though Iām not sure it still exists) had multiple channels, so the CTV channels should be allowed to do more than just one. They could e.g. have their regular 44 channel but have a 2nd channel for educational programs, or something like that. Even do a fishcam channel as that was supposedly popular back in the day. Though i suppose now they have CTV+ the opportunity may exist to add secondary channels there eventually.
CTV would be better suited to get a smart TV App out there. The CTV+ App they have at moment only works on smart phones. Forget being on RF spectrum and wasting a whole mux on a single SD stream, let alone secondary multi-channels. With an App on all devices, they can send out multiple streams to their hearts content with no restrictions other than rights licensing.
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Couldnāt agree more. Something collaborative with 44 Adelaide and try to push it as a nationally available community TV service. They produce so much Australian content. Having it all in one place on smart TVās would be great.
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