DETERMINATION

The Australian Broadcasting Authority hereby makes this plan for broadcasting services in the Geelong area of Victoria, under subsection 26(1) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

Two commercial radio broadcasting services, two community and one open narrowcasting radio service are to be available in the 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 Schedule One and Attachments 1.2 - 1.7 to this Determination.

One community radio broadcasting service and one open narrowcasting radio service are 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 22 June 2000)

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 status of the service (column two) does not form part of the licence area plan decision and is included for reference only.
• The frequency for each transmitter (column three) does not form part of the licence area plan decision and is included for reference only.
• the service licence number which has been allocated to the service, if appropriate (column four); 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 five),
• the identifying number of the attachment where the technical specifications for each transmitter are described (column six). (Each set of technical specifications referred to in the Schedules is an attachment to this determination).
• the general area served by each transmitter (column seven).