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As most coutries worldwide Australia is also switching to digital TV. Digital terrestrial television in Australia was launched on 1 January 2001, in the country's five most populous cities, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Australia uses DVB-T system which is used in Europe, Russia, India and many other countries. The Minister for Broadband and Communications set the date as part of the national digital switch-over which is planned by 2013.
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ABC is Australia's national independent public broadcaster. It is funded entirely by the Australian government and does not ever screen any commercials.
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The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by the Seven Media Group. It dates back to December 1956, when the first stations on the VHF channel 7 were established in Sydney and Melbourne. It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach. Seven is currently the highest rating television network in Australia, ahead of its traditional rival the Nine Network, and constant third place holder Network Ten.
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The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia. However, this changed in 2007 when the Nine Network's ratings were overtaken by those of its rival the Seven Network, which has dominated in the ratings ever since. As a result, Nine's slogan "still the one" has been discontinued.
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Network Ten, or Channel Ten, is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country. Ten consistently rates third amongst all channels in Australia's five largest cities, behind the Seven Network and Nine Network.
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SBS One is a national public television channel in Australia. Launched on 24 October 1980, it is the responsibility of SBS's television division, and is available nationally. As of 2007, SBS One has a 5.5% audience share. SBS Two is a SD Digital TV channel that launched on 1 June 2009 on Australian television. The SBS HD channel was launched on 14th December 2006. It broadcasts identical programming to SBS One.
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TVS, or Television Sydney, is a free-to-air community television station broadcasting in Sydney, Australia. Transmissions officially commenced on analogue UHF channel 31 in February 2006 after three months of technical trials. In November 2009 the Australian Government agreed to temporarily allocate TVS (and the other capital city Community Television channels) an additional (digital) channel so they could simulcast in the period up until the end of 2013 when analogue television will be turned off. TVS announced in December 2009 that it had appointed Broadcast Australia as its digital service provider and officially began simulcasting on Monday 1 March 2010 on Logical Channel Number 44.
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Digital Forty Four is a trial datacasting service which was licensed by the Australian Broadcasting Authority (now the Australian Communications and Media Authority) in March 2004 to run initially for three years until late 2007. The license has been extended on several occasions, however on 29 January 2010 it was announced that Broadcast Australia's datacasting licence for Digital 44 had been extended one last time to 30 April, 2010, with digital retransmission of community station TVS expected to commence in March 2010. Digital 44 is the world's first Digital Terrestrial TV service dedicated to datacasting. The service officially launched on March 17, 2004. Digital Forty Four is only broadcast in Sydney, where it carries a number of channels within a single 7 MHz multiplex.
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