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.hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For Channel 31 (Melbourne), see <a href="/wiki/C31_Melbourne" title="C31 Melbourne">C31 Melbourne</a>.</div> <p> <b>Community television in Australia</b> is a form of <a href="/wiki/Free-to-air" title="Free-to-air">free-to-air</a> non-commercial <a href="/wiki/Citizen_media" title="Citizen media">citizen media</a> in which a <a href="/wiki/Television_station" title="Television station">television station</a> is owned, operated and/or programmed by a community group to provide <a href="/wiki/Local_programming" title="Local programming">local programming</a> to its broadcast area. In principle, <a href="/wiki/Community_television" title="Community television">community television</a> is another model of facilitating media production and involvement by private citizens and can be likened to <a href="/wiki/Public-access_television" title="Public-access television">public-access television</a> in the United States and <a href="/wiki/Community_television_in_Canada" title="Community television in Canada">community television in Canada</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Each station is a <a href="/wiki/Not-for-profit" class="mw-redirect" title="Not-for-profit">not-for-profit</a> entity and is subject to specific provisions of the <a href="/wiki/Broadcasting_Services_Act_1992" title="Broadcasting Services Act 1992">Broadcasting Services Act 1992</a>. A Code of Practice, registered with the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Communications_%26_Media_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Communications & Media Authority">Australian Communications & Media Authority</a>, provides additional regulation of the sector. The community television stations operate independently so they are technically not a network (in the commonly held definition of the term). However, some programs are broadcast on multiple stations in the group, and they do co-operate with each other in various ways. The stations act collectively through the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Community_Television_Alliance" title="Australian Community Television Alliance">Australian Community Television Alliance</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>"<b>Channel 31</b>" is the colloquial name for some metropolitan community-licensed television stations throughout Australia, with Adelaide Community Television known as Channel 44. The name originates from <a href="/wiki/UHF" class="mw-redirect" title="UHF">UHF</a> 31, the frequency and channel number reserved for <a href="/wiki/Analogue_television" class="mw-redirect" title="Analogue television">analogue broadcasts</a> by metropolitan community television stations. By 2010, all stations were broadcasting in <a href="/wiki/576i" title="576i">576i</a> <a href="/wiki/Standard-definition_television" title="Standard-definition television">standard definition</a> on digital channel 44, since their analogue signals were switched off and replaced with <a href="/wiki/Digital_terrestrial_television_in_Australia" title="Digital terrestrial television in Australia">digital</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Community_television_in_Australia&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the early 1970s, the <a href="/wiki/Australia_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Australia Council">Australia Council</a> worked together with various community groups to establish a number of video production centres that could be used to produce Australian television programs. Many people began using these production centres, as well as their own resources, to make television programs. It was still difficult for these programs to be screened on commercial or government-funded television. It has been suggested that this was because the programs were thought to be too short, long or different from the programs already showing.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Whilst community radio stations were quickly established around Australia, community television took longer to develop. During 1984, a <a href="/wiki/Perth" title="Perth">Perth</a>-based community group unsuccessfully applied for a community television licence. In the late 1980s in <a href="/wiki/Alice_Springs" title="Alice Springs">Alice Springs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Imparja_Television" title="Imparja Television">Imparja Television</a> (now a commercial station) was established. In 1987, <a href="/wiki/RMITV" title="RMITV">RMITV</a> was set up by students at <a href="/wiki/RMIT_University" class="mw-redirect" title="RMIT University">RMIT University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a>. This became the first community television station to receive a test transmission permit.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 1992, the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Government of Australia">Government of Australia</a> asked the ABA to conduct a trial of community television using the vacant sixth television channel (UHF 31 in capital cities). Community television services have been provided on a trial basis since 1994 under the open <a href="/wiki/Narrowcast" class="mw-redirect" title="Narrowcast">narrowcast</a> 'class licence'. These licences are issued on the condition that they are used only for community and educational non-profit purposes and are held by broadcasters in most Australian capital cities.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 2002, the legislation was changed to introduce new community television licences and in 2004 the first licences were issued in <a href="/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney">Sydney</a>, <a href="/wiki/Perth" title="Perth">Perth</a>, Melbourne and <a href="/wiki/Brisbane" title="Brisbane">Brisbane</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Decline">Decline</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Community_television_in_Australia&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Decline"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In September 2014, Minister for Communications <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Turnbull" title="Malcolm Turnbull">Malcolm Turnbull</a> announced that all community television licences would end in December 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Just a week before becoming <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Australia" title="Prime Minister of Australia">Prime Minister</a> in September 2015, Turnbull amended the deadline by one year, to 31 December 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, <a href="/wiki/Television_Sydney" title="Television Sydney">Television Sydney</a> later ceased broadcasting on 20 December 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The other stations in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth had already started their shift to online services, but remained broadcasting. </p><p>The deadline was extended a number of times at the last minute by Minister for Communications <a href="/wiki/Mitch_Fifield" title="Mitch Fifield">Mitch Fifield</a>, first to 30 June 2017,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later to 31 December 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-CTVdeadline_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CTVdeadline-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An additional extension to 30 June 2018 was made as part of the government's deal with the <a href="/wiki/Centre_Alliance" title="Centre Alliance">Nick Xenophon Team</a> to garner support for large-scale media reforms in the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Senate" title="Australian Senate">Senate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, by that point, <a href="/wiki/31_Digital" class="mw-redirect" title="31 Digital">31 Digital</a> had already ceased broadcasting on 27 February.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A further extension, announced on 1 June 2018, gave broadcasters an additional two years through 30 June 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the deadline date of 31 June 2020, following further negotiations with the two remaining community stations <a href="/wiki/Channel_44_(Adelaide)" title="Channel 44 (Adelaide)">Channel 44</a> and <a href="/wiki/C31_Melbourne" title="C31 Melbourne">C31 Melbourne</a>, Fifield again extended the deadline for an additional 12 months to 30 June 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2021, Channel 44 Adelaide and C31 Melbourne were given a three-year extension, thanks to amendments tabled by South Australian Senator <a href="/wiki/Rex_Patrick" title="Rex Patrick">Rex Patrick</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After a new government came into power, the community broadcast were given a indefinite extension in 2024, with a 6 month notice period if their space is to be used for other purposes. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Video_on_Demand">Video on Demand</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Community_television_in_Australia&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Video on Demand"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2017, Brisbane's <a href="/wiki/31_Digital" class="mw-redirect" title="31 Digital">31 Digital</a> attempted a <a href="/wiki/Video_on_demand" title="Video on demand">video on demand</a> service called Queensland Online TV,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but was unsuccessful and the service went offline within a year. A second attempt, re-branded as <a href="/wiki/Hitchhike_TV" title="Hitchhike TV">Hitchhike TV</a> was created in 2018 streaming linear programming in short blocks from their website. However, this service was also unsuccessful and went offline in 2020. Newcastle station <a href="/wiki/Hunter_TV" class="mw-redirect" title="Hunter TV">Hunter TV</a> and Perth station <a href="/wiki/West_TV" title="West TV">West TV</a> ceased free-to-air transmissions in 2017 and 2020 respectively, but have both attempted video-on-demand presences on Youtube and from their websites.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 12 August 2021, both <a href="/wiki/C31_Melbourne" title="C31 Melbourne">C31 Melbourne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Channel_44_(Adelaide)" title="Channel 44 (Adelaide)">44 Adelaide</a> together with <a href="/wiki/Film_Victoria" class="mw-redirect" title="Film Victoria">Film Victoria</a> launched a new online streaming service, CTV+.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The CTV+ platform allows viewers to stream both channels linearly, or watch programmes on demand. An app for mobile devices, CTV+ was launched in August 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Licensing">Licensing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Community_television_in_Australia&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Licensing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Australia has a special type of broadcasting licence for community television which is available via <a href="/wiki/Free-to-air" title="Free-to-air">free-to-air</a> terrestrial reception. Holders of a community television licence must conform to various rules, primarily relating to advertising and to a lesser extent, program content. They are licensed by, and regulated by, the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Communications_%26_Media_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Communications & Media Authority">Australian Communications & Media Authority</a> (ACMA).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In the strictest sense of the term, Australian community television is the officially licensed stations and their programming. However, there are a number of stations and distributors that release similar content - but they are not subject to government regulation.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Community_support">Community support</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Community_television_in_Australia&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Community support"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some community television programs are made by <a href="/wiki/Amateur" title="Amateur">amateurs</a> volunteering their skills to produce programs about their own communities and special and diverse interests. In other cases, not-for-profit organisations and independent content creators produce programs. The sector is represented by the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Community_Television_Alliance" title="Australian Community Television Alliance">Australian Community Television Alliance</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Community television is funded by a mixture of sponsorship, subscriptions and donations, membership fees, grants, and merchandise sales. It receives no regular national government funding. Many programs are paid for by the producers themselves.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Antenna_Awards" title="Antenna Awards">Antenna Awards</a>, recognising outstanding community television programs, were established in <a href="/wiki/2004_Antenna_Awards" title="2004 Antenna Awards">2004</a> and were awarded annually until 2010. They are traditionally hosted at a gala awards ceremony at <a href="/wiki/Federation_Square" title="Federation Square">Federation Square</a> in Melbourne by C31 Melbourne, and have been revived twice – once in 2014, and again in <a href="/wiki/2019_Antenna_Awards" title="2019 Antenna Awards">2019.</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>The 2021 Antenna Awards were postponed a number of times and eventually held online with the iconic statuette being awarded to over 20 recipients. </p><p>A special emphasis of community television is the provision of programs in an increasing range of community languages and about community cultures. Over twenty languages groups, many from newly migrant and refugee communities, are broadcast regularly by the community television stations. Australian Community Television producers are often also producers of other <a href="/wiki/Community_media" title="Community media">community media</a>, such as the <a href="/wiki/Student_Youth_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="Student Youth Network">Student Youth Network</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Stations">Stations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Community_television_in_Australia&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Stations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <th width="15%"><a href="/wiki/Digital_Video_Broadcasting" class="mw-redirect" title="Digital Video Broadcasting">DVB</a> name </th> <th width="6%"><a href="/wiki/Logical_channel_number" class="mw-redirect" title="Logical channel number">LCN</a> </th> <th width="10%">Launch date </th> <th width="59%">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/C31_Melbourne" title="C31 Melbourne">C31 Melbourne</a> </td> <td>44 </td> <td>6 Oct 1994 </td> <td>Broadcast in <a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geelong" title="Geelong">Geelong</a> and surrounding areas. Originally broadcast on UHF 31 until 2010. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Channel_44_(Adelaide)" title="Channel 44 (Adelaide)">Channel 44</a> </td> <td>44 </td> <td>23 Apr 2004 </td> <td>Broadcast in <a href="/wiki/Adelaide" title="Adelaide">Adelaide</a> and surrounding areas. Originally broadcast on UHF 31 until 2010. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Defunct_stations">Defunct stations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Community_television_in_Australia&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Defunct stations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" width="100%"> <caption>Analogue-only stations </caption> <tbody><tr> <th width="15%">Channel name </th> <th width="6%"><a href="/wiki/Ultra_high_frequency" title="Ultra high frequency">UHF</a> </th> <th width="10%">Launch date </th> <th width="10%">Discontinued date </th> <th width="59%">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/CTV_41_Bendigo" title="CTV 41 Bendigo">CTV 41 Bendigo</a> </td> <td>41 </td> <td>19 Jun 1999 </td> <td>30 Jun 1999 </td> <td>Trial service broadcast in <a href="/wiki/Bendigo" title="Bendigo">Bendigo</a>. Licence cancelled due to failure to broadcast regular programming. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/ACE_TV" title="ACE TV">ACE TV</a> </td> <td rowspan="2">31 </td> <td>May 1994 </td> <td>Dec 2002 </td> <td>Broadcast in Adelaide. Licence cancelled due to conditions breach. Succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Channel_44_(Adelaide)" title="Channel 44 (Adelaide)">C31 Adelaide</a> in 2004. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Channel_31_(Sydney)" title="Channel 31 (Sydney)">Channel 31</a> </td> <td>1993 </td> <td>23 Apr 2004 </td> <td>Broadcast in <a href="/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney">Sydney</a>. Succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Television_Sydney" title="Television Sydney">Television Sydney</a> in 2006. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/BushVision" title="BushVision">BushVision</a> </td> <td>37 </td> <td>23 Sep 2005 </td> <td>4 Mar 2007 </td> <td>Trial service broadcast in <a href="/wiki/Mount_Gambier" title="Mount Gambier">Mount Gambier</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Australia" title="South Australia">South Australia</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Access_31" title="Access 31">Access 31</a> </td> <td>31 </td> <td>18 Jun 1999 </td> <td>6 Aug 2008 </td> <td>Broadcast in <a href="/wiki/Perth" title="Perth">Perth</a> and regional <a href="/wiki/Western_Australia" title="Western Australia">WA</a>. Closed due to <a href="/wiki/Insolvency" title="Insolvency">insolvency</a>. Succeeded by <a href="/wiki/West_TV" title="West TV">West TV</a> on LCN 44 in 2010. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/LINC_TV" title="LINC TV">LINC TV</a> </td> <td>68 </td> <td>Sep 1993 </td> <td>2012 </td> <td>Broadcast in <a href="/wiki/Lismore,_New_South_Wales" title="Lismore, New South Wales">Lismore, New South Wales</a>. Broadcast intermittently from original launch until final close. </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" width="100%"> <caption>Digital stations </caption> <tbody><tr> <th width="15%">DVB name </th> <th width="6%">LCN </th> <th width="10%">Launch date </th> <th width="10%">Discontinued date </th> <th width="59%">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Television_Sydney" title="Television Sydney">Television Sydney</a> </td> <td rowspan="3">44 </td> <td>20 Feb 2006 </td> <td>20 Dec 2015 </td> <td>Broadcast in Sydney, <a href="/wiki/Illawarra" title="Illawarra">Illawarra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Central_Coast,_New_South_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Coast, New South Wales">Central Coast</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blue_Mountains,_New_South_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Blue Mountains, New South Wales">Blue Mountains</a> and <a href="/wiki/Southern_Highlands,_New_South_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Highlands, New South Wales">Southern Highlands</a>. Originally broadcast on UHF 31 until 2010. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/31_Digital" class="mw-redirect" title="31 Digital">31 Digital</a> </td> <td>31 Jul 1994 </td> <td>28 Feb 2017 </td> <td>Broadcast in <a href="/wiki/Brisbane" title="Brisbane">Brisbane</a> and surrounding areas. Originally broadcast on UHF 31 until 2010. Reinvented as online streaming service <i><a href="/wiki/Hitchhike_TV" title="Hitchhike TV">Hitchhike TV</a></i>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/West_TV" title="West TV">West TV</a> </td> <td>10 Apr 2010 </td> <td>20 Feb 2020 </td> <td>Broadcast in Perth and surrounding areas. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Programs">Programs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Community_television_in_Australia&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Programs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many original television programs have been created by community television stations. These are often broadcast on stations in other states, and sometimes transfer later to <a href="/wiki/Pay_television" title="Pay television">pay television</a> or free-to-air. Programs include: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/1700_(TV_series)" title="1700 (TV series)">1700</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bazura_Project" title="The Bazura Project">The Bazura Project</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blokesworld" title="Blokesworld">Blokesworld</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Darren_%26_Brose" title="Darren & Brose">Darren & Brose</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Darren_Sanders_Show" title="The Darren Sanders Show">The Darren Sanders Show</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Newsbeat" title="Eastern Newsbeat">Eastern Newsbeat</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fishcam" title="Fishcam">Fishcam</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hot_Dog_with_the_Lot" title="Hot Dog with the Lot">Hot Dog with the Lot</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_Pit_Lane" title="In Pit Lane">In Pit Lane</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Peter_Maniatis" title="Peter Maniatis">KO Boxing</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Level_3_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Level 3 (TV series)">Level 3</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_on_Bowen" title="Live on Bowen">Live on Bowen</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Marngrook_Footy_Show" title="The Marngrook Footy Show">The Marngrook Footy Show</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Planet_Nerd" title="Planet Nerd">Planet Nerd</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Raucous" title="Raucous">Raucous</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Russian_Kaleidoscope" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Kaleidoscope">Russian Kaleidoscope</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Salam_Cafe" title="Salam Cafe">Salam Cafe</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Studio_A" title="Studio A">Studio A</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Under_Melbourne_Tonight" title="Under Melbourne Tonight">Under Melbourne Tonight</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vasili%27s_Garden" title="Vasili's Garden">Vasili's Garden</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/What%27s_Goin%27_On_There%3F" title="What's Goin' On There?">What's Goin' On There?</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Whose_Shout" title="Whose Shout">Whose Shout</a></i></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Community_television_in_Australia&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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