DETERMINATIONDETERMINATION

DETERMINATION

The Australian Broadcasting Authority hereby makes this plan for community and open narrowcasting radio broadcasting services in the Torres Strait area of Queensland, under section 26(1) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

Twenty community radio broadcasting services and one open narrowcasting radio broadcasting service are to be available in the Torres Strait area described at Attachment 1.1 to this determination with the use of the broadcasting services bands. The characteristics, including technical specifications, of the services that are to be available in the area described at Attachments (1 - 20).1 are set out in the Schedule and Attachments 1.2 - 1.3 and (2 - 20).2 to this Determination.

Dated 23 July 1996

SCHEDULE

The Schedule sets out:

• the category of each of the services that are to be available in that area (column one),
• the service licence number which has been allocated to the service, if appropriate (column two); N/A = Not Applicable, as the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 only requires service licences for Commercial and Community services.
• the number of transmitters required to transmit the service,
• the transmitter specification number which has been allocated to each transmitter (column three),
• the identifying number of the attachment where the technical specifications for each transmitter are described (column four). (Each set of technical specifications referred to in the Schedules is an attachment to this determination).
• the general area served by each transmitter (column five).

SCHEDULE ONE

Licence Area Plan - Torres Strait - (Radio) - July 1996

SCHEDULE TWO

Licence Area Plan - Badu Island - (Radio) - July 1996