🚀 go-pugleaf

On May 31, 4:05 pm, "ChrisRiley" <a...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Get ready for digital? Get ready for nothing.
>
> Today’s budget announcement leaves Community Television out in the cold and
>
> facing an uncertain future as Australia moves rapidly towards digital
> television.
>
> ‘It’s a real kick in the teeth’ says Greg Dee, C31 General Manager, ‘Senator
> Conroy has
>
> constantly assured the sector that we would not be left behind. Then when
> the time has
>
> come to put their money where their mouth is, this government has given us
> nothing.’
>
> The budget announces $140 million to assist viewers in converting to
> digital, but fails to
>
> ensure that all television broadcasters are converted to digital by omitting
> community
>
> television yet again. The ABC is set to receive $136 million to fund its
> third digital channel,
>
> whilst not a cent can be found to give C31 a single digital channel.
>
> As an independent small business C31 provides an incomparable service to
> large and diverse
>
> sections of the community.
>
> - C31 provides a communication platform to marginalised and
> under-represented sections
>
> of the community largely ignored by the mainstream media - often new and
> emerging
>
> communities.
>
> - C31 airs over 95 locally produced shows each week making it by far the
> largest
>
> broadcaster of local content in Australia.
>
> - C31 serves as a training ground for the entire television sector, and has
> produced some of
>
> the most well known faces on Australian TV including Rove and Hamish and
> Andy, in
>
> addition to hundreds of people working behind the scenes.
>
> - C31 provides a marketing platform which enables local business to use the
> power of
>
> television to target a local audience.
>
> ALL OF THIS AT NO COST TO THE TAX-PAYER.
>
> With the increased uptake of digital set top boxes, the 11th hour approaches
> for community
>
> television.
>
> ‘There is currently unused spectrum that could easily be allocated to C31’
> continues Greg Dee
>
> ‘and the cost associated with upgrading our facilities to broadcast in
> digital are, relatively
>
> speaking, miniscule.’
>
> Will there be a chair for community TV when the music stops on analogue TV?
>
> Digital. Don’t go there until we do.

Well what can you expect from the bonehead that wants to slow the
internet down to a crawl at the exact same time the Government is
telling us we need to embrace the information superhighway.

He sure as shit is stupid