Talk:Channel 31 Melbourne

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Anonymous IP 203.17.45.90 has infuriated me.

To say that the concept of a community television license did not exist before 2002 is silly. The broadcasting legislation did not name community licenses as such, but clearly it had a class of broadcasting licenses which were handed to several organizations that identified themselves as 'community-access broadcasters', for the purposes of non-commercial broadcasting.
I dispute that OzTam can be described as the 'official' ratings company for community access television ratings. The C31 'office' certainly doesn't use it very often. I also want it maintained that OzTam is not statistically reliable for very small market share.
You might argue the need for some of my previous discussion about the quality of the signal, but not all of it. The facts that C31 is on UHF, analogue only, broadcasts in mono, and has poor signal quality are its most noteworthy features.
To say 'all TV sets are capable of receiving C31' is just rubbish. Digital tuners and cable television users cannot receive C31. People whose aerials cannot receive UHF cannot receive C31. Owing to the low signal strength, most people in Victoria who can receive the other stations that broadcast from Mt Dandenong cannot receive C31.

- Richardcavell 05:58, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

I've factored some of this into the article and removed the NPOV tag [1] Agnte 13:18, 21 February 2006 (UTC)