Community TV stations C31 Melbourne and Geelong and Channel 44 Adelaide have launched a new online streaming service.
Initially available as a website, CTV+ will enable viewers to watch both stations’ live linear broadcast feeds as well as being able to catch up on over 20 locally produced Community TV programs, with plans to double its content offering over the next six months.
It comes after both stations were each granted three-year extensions to their broadcasting licences in June.
C31 Melbourne general manager Shane Dunlop said the extension gave them the confidence to proceed with the platform.
“We have been wanting to provide our viewers with a robust online service for years now, but with the ongoing uncertainty surrounding our free-to-air broadcast licence we simply never had the capacity to spend the vast time and financial resources towards developing one,” he said.
“It was the shared belief by all within the...
Initially available as a website, CTV+ will enable viewers to watch both stations’ live linear broadcast feeds as well as being able to catch up on over 20 locally produced Community TV programs, with plans to double its content offering over the next six months.
It comes after both stations were each granted three-year extensions to their broadcasting licences in June.
C31 Melbourne general manager Shane Dunlop said the extension gave them the confidence to proceed with the platform.
“We have been wanting to provide our viewers with a robust online service for years now, but with the ongoing uncertainty surrounding our free-to-air broadcast licence we simply never had the capacity to spend the vast time and financial resources towards developing one,” he said.
“It was the shared belief by all within the...
- 8/12/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
After the success of mockumentary series It.s Not You. It.s Bree, Channel 31.s writer and producer Shane Dunlop is now bringing another comedy Leongatha to TV audiences.
Spanning six weekly episodes, the show features a family road trip to a little town in the south-eastern countryside of Victoria, named Leongatha. It turns out to be a never-ending journey delayed by unexpected situations..
Dunlop readily admits the show is largely based on personal experience. .Basically it.s about a struggling filmmaker who.s recently had a relationship breakdown,. Dunlop explains. .And he is asked by his cousin to film his wedding which takes place in a country town called Leongatha.. But Denny, the protagonist in the story, first has to get to another town to meet various members of his extended family before they all get into a mini bus and travel across the country together. Things do not...
Spanning six weekly episodes, the show features a family road trip to a little town in the south-eastern countryside of Victoria, named Leongatha. It turns out to be a never-ending journey delayed by unexpected situations..
Dunlop readily admits the show is largely based on personal experience. .Basically it.s about a struggling filmmaker who.s recently had a relationship breakdown,. Dunlop explains. .And he is asked by his cousin to film his wedding which takes place in a country town called Leongatha.. But Denny, the protagonist in the story, first has to get to another town to meet various members of his extended family before they all get into a mini bus and travel across the country together. Things do not...
- 5/3/2013
- by Yuan Liu
- IF.com.au
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