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The Rudd Government will spend $160 million over four years to provide satellite-based digital television services to people in regional blackspot areas, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said.
Senator Conroy said $40 million a year had been committed to the
program through the forward estimates process, enabling the initiative
to benefit up to 247,000 households across Australia that had until now
received only limited services.
The plan would dramatically improve the choice and quality of
television services for regional Australia as the switchover to digital
services got closer, he said.
"For the first time all free-to-air digital television services,
including the original three commercial and two national channels, as
well as new digital services such as ABC2, ABC3, SBS TWO, GO, 7TWO and
ONE HD, will be available to all Australians, no matter where they
live."
"The satellite service will provide regional viewers with access to the
local news currently broadcast in their TV licence area via a dedicated
local news channel."
Under an agreement reached with television broadcasters, broadcasters
would upgrade more than 100 existing regional analog 'self-help'
transmission facilities to operate in digital, while the Government
will fully fund and build a new digital satellite broadcasting service
for regional viewers.
The measures are part of Australia's ongoing switchover to digital-only
television and will be in place before analog services are switched off
in each regional broadcast license area.
Opposition communications spokesman Tony Smith welcomed the initiative,
but cautioned rural Australians about getting excited about the
services, saying it might be "yet more Labor pie in the sky."
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