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Regional TV Australia is a website dedicated to the TV Stations outside the five major Capital Cities in Australia. We are interested in the history of Regional TV, mainly in the pre-Aggregation era, but also in the current operations of the major Regional TV
networks. The project started as the "regionaltv" YouTube Channel in April 2008, where I set up a list of "favorites" from the many regional clips posted by members of YouTube.
This project is run by Michael Costello, a resident of Melbourne, Australia.
I enjoyed watching the independent Regional TV Stations BCV 8 and GMV 6 while on
holidays on our relative's farm in Bamawm, near Echuca in Regional Victoria, and really miss the local content that used to set these stations apart before the Aggregation
process took it all away in the early 1990s.
(Read this article from TelevisionAU about Aggregation for more details on this change)
In the Capital Cities, including here in Melbourne, we have had the opportunity to run
distinctive local TV in the form of Community Television, and I got involved in that as a volunteer with MCT 31 and member group, Northern Access TV in 1995. Michael also hopes that Regional Areas will get this chance in the near future, if for no other reason, to restore the local television taken away by "networked" Regional Commercial TV.
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