or Brisbane who switched off a while later. But I suspect it was crippling them financially.
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Though itās good to see the spectrum used by community TV in Sydney and Brisbane being put to good use, and justifying the attempts to get them all to switch off.
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Although TVS was a reasonably professionally operated community station, they always had major disadvantages compared to the other TV broadcasters in Sydney.
Only starting in 2005-06 was one thing, but it was absolutely ridiculous for a new community TV licence to only launch on analogue at that point in time. TVS probably shouldāve been on Digital TV from the start - either with a temporary analogue service (closing after a couple of years, the same amount of time that the station actually ran analogue & digital services simultaneously for) or only on Digital TV to encourage people to upgrade from analogue.
TVS having their TV guides published in the newspapers, going Digital and sponsoring major events like the Royal Easter Show helped the station build a profile, but it was probably a bit too late with the number of multichannels launched by the mainstream networks in that era (2009-11).
Even if the government secures the futures for the remaining community TV stations, unfortunately I donāt think community TV will ever return to Sydney or Brisbane (at least through terrestrial broadcasting anyway).
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What is it being used for now?
RF Noiseā¦
Sarcasm Iād say.
So Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth remain on air?
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Correct
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The whole treatment of these community stations is ridiculous. They should be given another 5 years at least instead of this stupid 6 month bs.
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C31 has a new sub-channel āC31 Playsā which shows gaming content during the day and classic C31 programming at night, it is available only via Twitch. If only they should put the main channel on Twitch.
They need to WM it like the main channel and not have the frame that they do nowā¦
If only they could add another channel to the muxā¦
I reckon, try out YouTube more as a source for online content after the cutoff. Itās simple and even with utilities like Xsplit or OBS, it can be simple to move online for broadcasting.
With YT as well, its easier for your viewers as well as they can stream your channel on the Apple TV or the Chromecast.
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Tho. I donāt know what C31 uses for Playout, but OBS or XSplit would not be as practical but would be a cheaper and more flexible system if you wanted to use only one computer. Still tho, for continuity and uptime reasons it would have to be done on the Playout system.
YouTube is good for Amateur videos and the like but as what I said, if you want something polished off and something with no ContentID issues. I donāt think YouTube would be that good. The streams can be integrated into a C31 AppleTV App if thereās demand.
I think you should repeat The Leak Quiz Night on heavy rotation on your channel.
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Also, consider bringing up Patreon to the board, crowdsourcing is always a good idea.
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Iād just hope that C31 can convince the government to stay on the air. Governments past and present have let the sector down but I suppose community TV is an easy target.
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My main issue with c31 is that there is a great opportunity to provide a point of difference and content that will engage a new audience as well as maintain its cultural purpose and follow the charter.
For the last year I have closely been following what they are up to as I previously had ties with the organisation.
Sadly the same content seems to be constantly produced that isnāt engaging social media, and seems like itās in a vicious loop. Lots of short money grabbing videos about food and drinks, live comedy (which is hard enough to grab veiwers in commercial and the public broadcasters let alone community tv) and not a lot of new innovation and more looking for comedy gigs (in a commercial sense) for the same talent that appear on all live events. I have noticed a few small community initiates which is great, but there needs to be a drawcard to the content that C31 are producing and at the moment it appears there isnāt any.
I am all for it staying on the air, but it does appear that there should be new management/board though and a lot of the past 3 years has been wasted with people at the helm of the organisation not really knowing what to do.
Its great they have had extensions for the on air broadcast, but they donāt seem to be using it to their advantage to innovate.
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I could probably do with a few less fishing shows. They seem to be on all the time as I flick past.
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Maybe more polished off Local News and some BBC World News Bulletins if they need fillers.
Naturally all of the content (including the fishing shows) Is made and just broadcast on the channel. C31 are just the broadcaster not the content maker in that sense.
C31 in house production though is what I am referring to, they arenāt using the FTA broadcast to their advantage. When they do itās a comedian thatās been on all of their live events for the 100th time trying to get a gig.
A lot of the online content however is more branded short videos, which is fine but based off the engagement of the posts on their social media where they are posted, people arenāt interested. The only ones who do are the voulenteers and staff that work at c31 who actually engage with the content.
Itās a real shame because if the right people knew what they were doing 2 years ago, the channel and itās online counterpart would be a real great resource and outlet.
It didnāt move with the times and evolve. A lot of time was floundered sending people off on all different directions to try something without a real knowledge of what to doā¦
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Paging @SydneyOnAirTV because I reckon that they would be a good asset when It comes to the Graphical Design and suchā¦
I did like the animated popup graphic that they done in around 2016-2017 for the App.
Tho, I must admit. There are some shows on C31 that do seem to be made on iMovie