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On the 10 th of September 2014, the Minister for Communications, Malcolm Turnbull, announced his proposal to not renew Community Television operators' Apparatus Licence beyond 2015. To support this proposal the Minister declared that currently vacant spectrum (the so called sixth channel) would be required to test and trial a new broadcasting compression standard (MPEG-4) that is more efficient and could have the potential to carry more services. Community TV would have to make way for these trials to occu
Is there a pressing need for Community TV (CTV) to vacate its current spectrum allocation in order to free up the “sixth channel” for trials of MPEG4 (and other new technologies)?