Then the Government needs to essentially stop funding Imparja in that case, surely with advertisers withdrawing their advertising from Imparja and taking it over to Seven I would imagine it would make absolutely zero sense to keep Imparja going. Isn’t Imparja running at a loss otherwise without Government funding?
I say change these local feeds over to the capital city relays of Channel 9 (metro dirty feeds full-time without any Imparja opt-outs) which would be more cost-efficient, or get VAST to stop carrying Imparja, change it over to a capital city Channel 9 station, and give the people in these communities access to the VAST satellite service where they would be better served by a metro Channel 9 station directly, even if via satellite.
Should be bound to happen anyway if 10 Central packs up and leaves town, in which a capital city Channel 10 would fill the void on VAST.