It’s not ending this Sunday , still got till June 30th?
So we don’t really know what will be airing on that night at that time just yet. I mean it will most likely be similar programming anyway.
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Good point WIN might even put a different program to air especially If they have to cease at midnight as Instructed by the ACMA.
Unlikely, would likely just cut out in the middle of the program I feel like, especially due to the size of the market
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Shutting down at midnight would not be a ACMA compliance thing, just an accounting measure to align with the end of the financial year.
If anything they might choose to cease transmissions during regular working hours on the Friday beforehand to minimise costs.
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Their licence doesn’t expire until January 2025, so they’re not obligated to stop at any particular time unless they’ve told ACMA they will as part of the process to relinquish the licence.
The assumption seems to be that they’ll hand the licence back? I’m not sure whether there is a penalty for holding a licence that doesn’t broadcast
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But does their affiliation agreement with 10 expire 30 June. They might have a licence with nothing to show
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Yes - Agreement ends at the end of June - they’ve already decided that they won’t renew the contract, and the businesses is also being wound up - so it is unlikely that they will broadcast anything on the spectrum after 12:00:00am 1 July.
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And possibly advise ACMA they are seeking to cancel the MDV licence. Then it will be an ACMA mess to deal with. Never seen a fully-fledged commercial TV service cease operations in this country before, will be a first.
The only closures of broadcast television have been the non Melbourne/Adelaide community TV services, and some datacast services including Digital 44 in Sydney. Some lower power narrowcast Tourist TV services have come and gone too.
I so hope the Fed Govt does not bail them out money wise. As all the other JV’s and the wider regional TV industry will seek the same. And then the metro industry after that. The Fed Govt needs to legislate this mess properly as per my previous comments in this thread and not keep kicking the can down the road.
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Will most likely be a remote switching off the transmitter around 12am on July 1 by Media Hub Master Control / NOC in Ingleburn or BAI NOC at Gore Hill, both are staffed 24/7. Therefore they won’t need to send someone out to the transmitter site to do the deed. Staff on-site will be required later to fully decommission the transmitter and remove it most likely during normal business hours. If MDT is wound up, the transmitter as an asset will be written off (if not already under depreciation) and disposed of. More than likely, it will remain on-site with its power breakers switched off if it does not incur site rental fees, who knows.
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Anything is possible as we haven’t seen anything like it. Assuming the program schedule has same program ending times, it might go to a test pattern til midnight as each channel concludes the last full program
ECN8 Taree went bust in 1969. Relayed NRN11 for a few years before NEN9 took over in 1971. Whilst the licence wasn’t handed back, a commercial station has effectively shut down because of financial reasons.
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I don’t think It would because the service is actually closing down not like when WDT closed why they did a deal with the Nine network during the switchover.
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I stand corrected, ECN 8 Taree was before my time.
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the station itself shutdown as a stand-alone operation but AFAIK there was always continuity of service from ECN one way or another, whether it came via NRN or NEN. The licence never went “dark” as far as I know.
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Wasn’t there talk that NBN wanted to take it over at one stage? Or was it ECN approached NBN and they said no? Was before my time too.
To keep ECN on the air, they must have had some arrangement with NRN to carry and telecast Taree local commercial booking revenue on the relayed signal to keep the ECN transmitter going as a stop gap?
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That very brief period when ECN-8 joined up with NRN-11 (1968-69) .
The two would demerge with NRN-11 hooking up with RTN-8 while ECN-8 got together with NEN-9.
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And still no formal statement from the Minister for Communications as yet.
Being such a small market, and in a non-Labor electorate, they are seemingly going to let it pass? If so, can see the WDW, CDT, DTD and TDT JV’s follow very quickly and the solus S38a’s after that no doubt when affiliation agreements expire.
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Can’t make out the call-sign in the ‘8’ logo? Is that ECN or RTN?
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Short of bailing them out, what else do they do, especially when there seems little interest in upsetting the apple cart?
Bailouts set a potentially dangerous precedent too
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it’s ECN-8.
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