Should TV Move?
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Keywords
Television, Digital Switchover, NBN, Wireless Broadband, Spectrum Auctions
Abstract
This article considers five options for the future of television transmission in Australia. We begin by describing the unprecedented threats to broadcast television’s business model and power. We then set out the global picture for terrestrial TV broadcasting and options for modernising the Australian system. We do this within a framework that asks what now constitutes “television”, because the services that viewers and users now treat as TV are broader than the subset that have carried most of the public policy freight for decades. The five options we consider are: first, do nothing much apart from adopting further improvements in compression technology; second, replace the current transmission system with a new, specialised terrestrial broadcast platform; third, migrate terrestrial TV to a direct-to-home satellite platform; fourth, move over-the-air TV online; fifth, design some sort of hybrid of Options 1 to 4. Finally, we arrive at some tentative conclusions.
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Author Biographies
Giles Tanner, Swinburne University of Technology
Giles Tanner is an Australian media and communications consultant with a particular interest in broadcasting and radio frequency spectrum management. Until 2018 he headed the division responsible for radio frequency spectrum management at the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) and, from 2009-12, led the ACMA's work in realising the 'digital dividend' from analogue to digital TV and the clearance and sale of the 700MHz band. From 1997-2005, he was the General Manager and, in 2004, an Acting Member, of the Australian Broadcasting Authority. Since the early 1990s he has given conference speeches and published articles dealing primarily with current broadcasting and spectrum policy and management issues. In 2019, he was engaged by Swinburne University of Technology to undertake research into spectrum issues.
Jock Given, Swinburne Unviersity of Technology
Jock Given is Professor of Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne where he researches, writes and teaches about communications policy, business, law and history. His work has been published in Telecommunications Policy, Journal of Information Policy, Media and Communications, Business History, Media History, Australian Economic History Review and other journals. He is a member of the international editorial board of Telecommunications Policy (Elsevier) and a founding associate editor of the Journal of Digital Media and Policy (Intellect). He previously worked as Director of the Communications Law Centre, Policy Advisor at the Australian Film Commission and Director, Legislation and Industry Economics, in the Australian Department of Transport and Communications.
