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11:00AM Angus Kidman | It might not be news to you that Australia is switching to digital television, but it’s something of a disgrace that community TV wasn’t allocated any digital spectrum when the plans were first announced back in 2001. Fortunately, that’s been fixed this week. More »
Community TV Gets Digital TV Spectrum Allocation
11:00AM Angus Kidman | It might not be news to you that Australia is switching to digital television, but it’s something of a disgrace that community TV wasn’t allocated any digital spectrum when the plans were first announced back in 2001. Fortunately, that’s been fixed this week. More » 
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10:00AM Angus Kidman | Commercial networks have been able to offer a second digital channel since the beginning of the year. When Seven rolls out its second channel on November 1, they’ll all finally have gotten around to it. More »
Seven’s Second Channel To Launch November 1
10:00AM Angus Kidman | Commercial networks have been able to offer a second digital channel since the beginning of the year. When Seven rolls out its second channel on November 1, they’ll all finally have gotten around to it. More »
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3:00PM Angus Kidman | Obviously concerned by the appearance of scammers pretending to be government representatives pushing conversion equipment, the government has rushed out a training scheme for retailers. More »
Digital TV Sales People Need More Training
3:00PM Angus Kidman | Obviously concerned by the appearance of scammers pretending to be government representatives pushing conversion equipment, the government has rushed out a training scheme for retailers. More »
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3:00PM Angus Kidman | The Mildura area will be the first to fully convert to digital TV, and sadly that means it’s also the first to see scammers trying to take advantage of the switchover. More »
Digital TV Scammers Hit Rural Areas
3:00PM Angus Kidman | The Mildura area will be the first to fully convert to digital TV, and sadly that means it’s also the first to see scammers trying to take advantage of the switchover. More »
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3:46PM Angus Kidman | The last time we saw Australian digital TV takeup figures, just under half (47%) of households were digital-TV ready. Three months later, and the magical 50% barrier has been cracked, despite the confusion created by Freeview campaigns. More »
More Than Half Of Australia Has Digital TV
3:46PM Angus Kidman | The last time we saw Australian digital TV takeup figures, just under half (47%) of households were digital-TV ready. Three months later, and the magical 50% barrier has been cracked, despite the confusion created by Freeview campaigns. More »
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10:00AM Angus Kidman | We already know lots of Australians are confused by digital TV, and apparently un-confusing them is going to cost a whole lot more: at least $66 million, to be precise. More »
Telling People About Digital TV Is Costly
10:00AM Angus Kidman | We already know lots of Australians are confused by digital TV, and apparently un-confusing them is going to cost a whole lot more: at least $66 million, to be precise. More »
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4:00PM Angus Kidman | It doesn’t officially launch until Sunday, but IceTV notes that Channel 9’s new digital channel Go! can be tuned into from today — something most set-top boxes will do automatically, but which you may need to do manually on a PC-based system. [via IceTV]
New Nine Digital Channel Soft Launches Today
4:00PM Angus Kidman | It doesn’t officially launch until Sunday, but IceTV notes that Channel 9’s new digital channel Go! can be tuned into from today — something most set-top boxes will do automatically, but which you may need to do manually on a PC-based system. [via IceTV]
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8:30AM Angus Kidman | The commercial networks have been allowed to launch an extra digital TV channel since January, but they’ve been decidedly slack about it. Ten’s sports-oriented ONE network didn’t appear until March, and now Nine’s Go! won’t be live until August. More »
Nine’s Digital Channel To Debut August 9
8:30AM Angus Kidman | The commercial networks have been allowed to launch an extra digital TV channel since January, but they’ve been decidedly slack about it. Ten’s sports-oriented ONE network didn’t appear until March, and now Nine’s Go! won’t be live until August. More »
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10:30AM Angus Kidman | Mainstream media loves creating false panics over digital television, and there’s another one over the horizon. More »
Another Reason Why Your Grandma Needs A Digital TV
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Mainstream media loves creating false panics over digital television, and there’s another one over the horizon. More »
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2:00PM Angus Kidman | The first quarterly survey designed to track awareness of the impending digital TV switchover shows that most Australians are aware that digital TV is happening, but there’s not much else in the figures to crow about. More »
Digital TV Switchover: We’re Clueless And Sometimes Unhappy
2:00PM Angus Kidman | The first quarterly survey designed to track awareness of the impending digital TV switchover shows that most Australians are aware that digital TV is happening, but there’s not much else in the figures to crow about. More » 