[LINK] Community TV in Australia

[George Bray]

What does CTV mean to you?  I've been asking a few people and get 
answers ranging from "armchair poem recitals" to "open source TV".

As I understand it, there are a few licensees in the captial cities. 
Lots of localised channels.

http://www.ctvaa.org.au/links.html

This new national organisation CTVAA wants to form a national voice for 
community content producers and broadcasters. The aim is to form a 
content production and delivery system from 700 local government areas, 
and talk the government into the license and funds to distribute 
nationally on DTV.

I think this has the possibility of increasing demand for broadband 
services, but it would still be hampered by volume-based access regimes 
for TV of reasonable broadcast quality.

Perhaps that adage that one should never underestimate the data 
handling capacity of a ute full of DVDs doing the ton, is true.

http://www.ctvaa.org.au/aims.html.html
http://www.ctvaa.org.au/membership.html

What do you think?

George