Broadcasting Services Act 1992
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This Determination fixed 30 July 2013 as the end of the simulcast period for the Darwin TV1 licence area, requiring broadcasters to stop transmitting both analog and digital signals after that date. It affected commercial broadcasters in Darwin and households still using analog sets who needed digital reception to keep watching TV.
It matters because, once the simulcast obligation ended, broadcasters could legally switch off analog transmissions — a locally timed step in Australia’s national digital TV rollout under the Minister’s Schedule 4 powers in the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.
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Direct links to the current provisions in Broadcasting Services (Simulcast Period for Darwin TV1) Determination (No. 1) 2012.
I, STEPHEN MICHAEL CONROY, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, make the following Determination under subclause 6A(2) of Schedule 4 to the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.
Dated 14 August 2012
STEPHEN CONROY
Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
This Determination is the Broadcasting Services (Simulcast Period for Darwin TV1) Determination (No. 1) 2012.
This Determination commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.
In this Determination:
ACMA means the Australian Communications and Media Authority;
Darwin TV1 licence area is the area determined by the ACMA in the Licence Area Plan ‑ Darwin Television made under subsection 26(1) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992; and
simulcast period has the same meaning as in paragraphs (a) and (c) of the definition of ‘simulcast period’ in clause 2 of Schedule 4 to the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.
The simulcast period for the Darwin TV1 licence area is to run until and including 30 July 2013.
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I, STEPHEN MICHAEL CONROY, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, make the following Determination under subclause 6A(2) of Schedule 4 to the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.
Dated 14 August 2012
STEPHEN CONROY
Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
This Determination is the Broadcasting Services (Simulcast Period for Darwin TV1) Determination (No. 1) 2012.
This Determination commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.
In this Determination:
ACMA means the Australian Communications and Media Authority;
Darwin TV1 licence area is the area determined by the ACMA in the Licence Area Plan ‑ Darwin Television made under subsection 26(1) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992; and
simulcast period has the same meaning as in paragraphs (a) and (c) of the definition of ‘simulcast period’ in clause 2 of Schedule 4 to the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.
The simulcast period for the Darwin TV1 licence area is to run until and including 30 July 2013.