[AusNOG] Community TV given the flick

Fri Sep 12 18:24:54 EST 2014

I will miss Briz31.

I remember watching "Caravaning with Tommo" (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR53H-zgU0I) as a younger Curtis - Tommo is
all to blame for my love of camping.

This is a dangerous precedent to set, in my opinion. I listen to community
radio (especially Switch1197) up here in Brisbane - to lose community radio
(which I would argue has greater penetration than community television)
would be an even greater loss to the community, and I am worried that this
is the next permutation of this exercise.

> I suspect that there is more life left in lower frequency radio waves for
digital transmission
but that isn't where the iPod money is.

Sssssh.... lest they start "reclaiming" the HF/VHF amateur radio
frequencies as well...

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Alan Maher <alanmaher at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ki Ora from All Black land,
>
> While this may not be exactly aligned with the network issues normally
> aligned on this
> group- I am happy to follow the discussion to date. I will call it a
> "Friday" discussion.
>
> In most of the Western World, the standard analogue TV channels have been
> switched off
> and the frequency spectrum sold to Mobile operators with deep pockets.
> I was never sure exactly why this was done, but assume that powers of
> intelligence much
> greater than mine were at work.  Personally, I suspect the politicians saw
> dollar signs and
> went blind very quickly.
>
> Community TV was never a "biggie" in NZ, despite the spectrum being
> available, as most
> small communities never had the kind of resources available to undertake
> that stuff.
> Small scale community radio still seems to happen, but it is rarely noted
> or listened to.
>
> By way of comparison, I happened to live in a tiny town in New England,
> USA where the
> dial-up connection was as reliable as a politicians promise- it would
> disconnect at random
> intervals usually when you were in the middle of something that seemed
> important at the time.
> Like a MS Service pack download.
> This was 2001
>
> We had a cable TV connection, but just a basic one that didn't cost the
> earth and offer
> 600 channels of repeats of MASH or something similar.
>
> However, I was amused that one channel was the local town channel.
> And we are talking a town with maybe 900 residents.
> This channel constantly broadcast all the contact phone numbers for the
> various services
> that the tiny town provided as kind of Power Point slide show.
> Then................once a week it got really exciting, because that was
> when they had the town
> meeting, and it was all broadcast live via a single tiny webcam.
>
> All the local town council people had to behave themselves when it was
> live to the community.
> No backdoor deals, no behind the scenes nonsense (well, I had to assume
> so) and it
> was actually quite interesting to watch.
>
> I have to assume that the Cable TV provider allowed some form of local
> access as a right to
> distribute their content within that area.
>
> That is readily done on the net, but getting through to the local
> community relies on 2 very
> important things - 1/ Internet access, and a reasonable/modest speed and
> 2/Local awareness
> of its existence.
>
> I live in a rural area, but am lucky enough to live quite close to the
> Telephone exchange, so
> I get quite good speed on an ADSL2 connection and could upgrade to VDSL,
> but haven't bothered.
>
> The radio/wireless/tv  frequencies (in my view) have been hi-jacked by the
> scam merchants
> and fellow travellers, as an "all move forward for benefit of mankind"
> digital upgrade that
> actually serves no great benefit at all, and disadvantages large sections
> of people who do
> not live in a big city and quite enjoy listening to scratchy radio from a
> distance, or watching
> their selection of a couple of channels (with snow) of the news.
>
> I suspect that there is more life left in lower frequency radio waves for
> digital transmission
> but that isn't where the iPod money is.
>
> But, I would be happy to be advised otherwise.
>
> Alan Maher
>
>
> On 12/09/2014 5:56 p.m., Mark ZZZ Smith wrote:
>
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>>> Hey Guys,
>>>
>>> Anyone seen this?
>>>
>>> http://m.theage.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/
>>> community-tv-gets-pushed-onto-internet-20140910-10eur2.html
>>>
>>> Any they expect to run this on our NBN. They are kidding them selves
>>> right?
>>>
>>>  These guys from Sydney produce the content would have been on community
>> TV in the past. Much better to use Youtube, much bigger audience.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/user/mightycarmods (900K subscribers, from all
>> over the world. Most recent production sponsored by Google and Screen
>> Australia)
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