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Defence Procurement
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Mr Hartsuyker
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, in writing, on 11 March 2010:
Can the Minister indicate when vacant digital bandwidth is expected to be allocated to community television operators in regional Australia.
Mr Albanese (Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government)
—The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question:
The Australian Government values community television as an important component of the Australian media landscape. Accordingly it has determined a pathway for community television to make the transition to digital broadcasting.
The Government asked the Australian Communications and Media Authority to temporarily allocate unassigned spectrum to community stations C31 in Melbourne, TVS in Sydney, QCTV in Brisbane and Channel 31 Adelaide to simulcast their services until the switch to digital-only television in capital cities in 2013. A new trial community broadcasting licensee, West TV in Perth, commenced digital-only broadcasts in April 2010.
The Government has also allocated funding support, totalling $2.6 million, to assist the community television sector to meet the costs of commencing digital services.
Other than these capital cities no spectrum has been reserved or identified in licence area plans for digital community broadcasting television services. Further, the availability of spectrum for any new broadcasting television services will depend on decisions by the Government about the use of the spectrum after the completion of digital switchover.