So, goodbye Channel 31, maybe…

If any of you have not read/seen the news, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that community television stations would only be licensed until the end of 2015.

He said “The Government believes that the best outcome for community television is that, in the future, it uses the internet as its distribution platform,”.

Quite frankly, get your @#$% together Malcolm. How is TV meant to move online in Australia when most of Australia barely has the capability to stream a 720p youtube clip, let alone 1080p properly. And if the future of community television is online, why wouldn’t mainstream commercial television be online? considering the great disparity in funding and resources

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