The Australian Broadcasting Authority hereby makes this plan for broadcasting services in the Ballarat area of Victoria, under subsection 26(1) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.
Three national radio broadcasting services, three commercial radio broadcasting services and one open narrowcasting radio broadcasting service are to be available in the Ballarat 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 Attachment 1.1 are set out in the Schedule One and Attachments 1.2 - 1.9 to this Determination.
Two community radio broadcasting service is to be available in the area described at Attachment 2.1 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 Attachment 2.1 are set out in Schedule Two and Attachments 2.2 - 2.3 to this Determination.
Determined by the Australian Broadcasting Authority on 8 August 1997
SCHEDULES
Each of the Schedules 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 - Ballarat - (Radio) - Final - August 1997
Licence Area : Ballarat RA1
Category ofService
Service Licence No:
Transmitter Specification No:
TechnicalSpecifications
General Area Served by Transmitter
National
N/A
TS10003795
See Attachment 1.2
Ballarat(Lookout Hill)
National
N/A
TS10003796
See Attachment 1.3
Ballarat(Lookout Hill)
National
N/A
TS10003794
See Attachment 1.4
Ballarat(Lookout Hill)
Commercial
SL10365
TS10003792
See Attachment 1.5
Ballarat
TS10005966
See Attachment 1.6
Daylesford
Commercial
SL10364
TS10005653
See Attachment 1.7
Ballarat(Warrenheip)
Commercial
SL10284
TS10005184
See Attachment 1.8
Ballarat(Warrenheip)
SCHEDULE TWO
Licence Area Plan - Ballarat - (Radio) - Final - August 1997
Licence Area : Ballarat RA2
Category ofService
Service Licence No:
Transmitter Specification No:
TechnicalSpecifications
General Area Served by Transmitter
Community
SL10285
TS10003798
See Attachment 2.2
Ballarat (Warrenheip)
Community
SL1150001
TS10005655
See Attachment 2.3
Ballarat (Warrenheip)
ATTACHMENT 1.1
LICENCE AREA FOR SERVICE LICENCE NUMBERS: SL10365, SL10364 and SL10284 COMMERCIAL RADIO BALLARAT VIC
The licence area, in terms of areas defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics at the Census of 6 September 1991, is:
Area Description
Persons
Ballaarat (C)
34530
Ballan (S)
4645
Ballarat (S)
18802
Bungaree (S)
4579
Buninyong (S)
12138
Creswick (S)
4835
Grenville (S)
8111
Lexton (S)
1312
Ripon (S)
3468
Sebastopol (B)
7529
Talbot & Clunes (S)
2449
Vic CD 072303
262
Vic CD 072304
798
Vic CD 072305
101
Vic CD 072307
209
Vic CD 061105
380
Vic CD 061106
297
Vic CD 061107
467
Vic CD 061108
472
Vic CD 061109
502
Vic CD 061110
309
Vic CD 061111
487
Vic CD 061112
416
Vic CD 061113
317
Vic CD 061114
382
Vic CD 060407
391
Vic CD 060408
630
Vic CD 080204
348
Total Persons
109166
Note: Standard terminology used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics:
(C) = City
(CD) = Collection District
(S) = Shire
Attachment 1.2
LICENCE AREA PLAN : Ballarat
Category : National
General Area Served : Ballarat (Lookout Hill) (VIC)
Service Licence Number : Not applicable
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio
Specification Number : TS10003795
Transmitter Site :-
Nominal location : NTA Tower LOOKOUT HILL
Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing
Reference 54 699150 5871250
Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines
Emission :-
Frequency Band & Mode VHF-FM
Carrier Frequency : 107.9 MHz
Polarisation Mixed
Maximum antenna height 120 m
Output Radiation Pattern :-
Bearing or Sector (Clockwise direction)
Maximum ERP
0°T - 110°T
50 kW
110°T - 350°T
100 kW
350°T - 360°T
50 kW
Attachment 1.3
LICENCE AREA PLAN : Ballarat
Category : National
General Area Served : Ballarat (Lookout Hill) (VIC)
Service Licence Number : Not applicable
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio
Specification Number : TS10003796
Transmitter Site :-
Nominal location : NTA Tower LOOKOUT HILL
Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing
Reference 54 699150 5871250
Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines
Emission :-
Frequency Band & Mode VHF-FM
Carrier Frequency : 107.1 MHz
Polarisation Mixed
Maximum antenna height 120 m
Output Radiation Pattern :-
Bearing or Sector (Clockwise direction)
Maximum ERP
0°T - 110°T
50 kW
110°T - 350°T
100 kW
350°T - 360°T
50 kW
Attachment 1.4
LICENCE AREA PLAN : Ballarat
Category : National
General Area Served : Ballarat (Lookout Hill) (VIC)
Service Licence Number : Not applicable
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio
Specification Number : TS10003794
Transmitter Site :-
Nominal location : NTA Tower LOOKOUT HILL
Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing
Reference 54 699150 5871250
Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines
Emission :-
Frequency Band & Mode VHF-FM
Carrier Frequency : 105.5 MHz
Polarisation Mixed
Maximum antenna height 120 m
Output Radiation Pattern :-
Bearing or Sector (Clockwise direction)
Maximum ERP
0°T - 110°T
50 kW
110°T - 350°T
100 kW
350°T - 360°T
50 kW
Attachment 1.5
LICENCE AREA PLAN : Ballarat
Category : Commercial
General Area Served : Ballarat (VIC)
Service Licence Number : SL10365
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - AM Radio
Specification Number : TS10003792
Transmitter Site :-
Nominal location : Ballarat 7.3km WSW of Town
Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing
Reference 54 745101 5841401
Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines
Emission :-
Frequency Band & Mode MF-AM
Carrier Frequency : 1314 kHz
Output Radiation Pattern :-
Bearing or Sector (Clockwise direction)
Elevation
Maximum CMF
0°T - 60°T
0
1.1 kV
60°T - 180°T
0
560 V
63°T
0
100 V
103°T
0
530 V
180°T - 360°T
0
1.1 kV
301°T
0
920 V
321°T
0
950 V
Attachment 1.6
LICENCE AREA PLAN : Ballarat
Category : Commercial
General Area Served : Daylesford (VIC)
Service Licence Number : SL10365
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio
Specification Number : TS10005966
Transmitter Site :-
Nominal location : Daylesford Town
Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing
Reference 55 247600 5863100
Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines