Talk:Television Sydney

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Television Sydney (TVS) is a free-to-air television station broadcasting in Sydney, Australia broadcasting on a UHF channel 31 frequency. It is the latest of several various attempts to create a viable community based station in Sydney following the collapse of previous incarnations due to politics and the cancellation and re-issue of a licence by the Australian Broadcasting Authority in 2004.

Previous attempts to provide a service on community Channel 31 have transmitted initially from the UTS building in Broadway, then sites on Gore Hill north of the present location, and finally at the Broadcast Australia (ABC /SBS) site.

TVS Promotes itself as "The first permanent free-to-air TV station to be launched in Sydney in 25 years" but this is incorrect ignoring the other attempts. [It is not incorrect - the previous CTV licensee only held temporary open narrowcast licences issued on a 12 months basis. TVS holds what ACMA terms the ¨permanent¨ CTV   licence and is the first TV channel in Sydney to be given a permanent licence since SBS was established].

Although TVS is clearly aiming for a higher standard than its unsuccessful predecessors it seems that someone feels that telling the truth on this entry is in some way not beneficial to TVS and keeps removing additional information from the sanitised entry they consider is mandatory. [Someone, perhaps associated with the former licence holder, kept replacing factual statements with false statements].

From its unofficial launch on 20 November 2005 some 18 months after gaining the license and refusing help from others who would have had them on air immediately, TVS underwent a trial period running a continuous boring programme loop, giving viewers a taste of programs and testing technical systems. Unfortunately there were technical problems and these have not yet been fixed after 9 months of transmissions. [TVS did run a test signal for three months and it was clearly indicated on screen that it was a trial broadcast. And yes it did take some months to bed in the automation system largely due to the fact that it was the first time the Playbox software was engineered for a fully SDI 24/7 station.].

Since 20 February 2006 at 4pm TVS has been broadcasting a full schedule of programs 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

TVS has a 20kW transmitter compared to the previous licensee's 250 watt, then 2KW and then 5 KW transmitters and now shares the SBS antenna located on the Broadcast Australia tower at Gore Hill. Transmission facilities are leased from Broadcast Australia at very high cost to TVS.

The channel gives coverage across most of Sydney, with reports of clear reception from high locations as far south as Wollongong, in the lower Blue Mountains and on the Central Coast but the signal is nowhere as good as SBS in most of Sydney due to SBS having a much higher transmission power. [The difference in signal strength is not as great as suggested here and the TVS signal is actually as good across most of Sydney. Every FTA channel has weak spots, TVS just has a few more than the others and this is mainly because TVS was not allocated repeater frequencies which SBS does have.].

TVS has a fully digital broadcast operations centre on the media campus of the University of Western Sydney.

Unfortunately the "Low end" automation system that was chosen with its sound to picture synchronisation problems lets the station down [not so, that issue was sorted out long ago] in its on-air presentation.

Programme content varies from quite good to really terrible and despite promising to only air technically adequate material when applying for the license it seems that anything offered will be broadcast regardless of quality.

Some programming is supplied from other community stations with some of the programmes being several years old or catering to Perth and Melbourne audiences in particular. This is presumably partly to augment the programme schedule in the start-up phase and provide something other than a test pattern to broadcast but also to demonstrate successful program formats to potential program providers in Sydney which has never had the broadbased community television culture that exists in other cities.

TVS actively encourages local program makers to pitch to the channel and provides free airtime to not-for-profit producers.

TVS accepts sponsorship advertising, mainly consisting of 30 seconds spots, and has engaged an external sales and sponsorship agent, Media Brokers (www.mediabrokers.com.au)

Information on how to tune to TVS, how to submit a program proposal, plus a complete program guide are available at www.tvs.tv.

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