Is national, digital, Indigenous television helping or hurting?

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Are the two circumstances linked in any way, and can anything be done to salvage locally produced Indigenous content?

With SBS and NITV reaching an agreement on the back of the federal Government’s $63 million injection into creating a new Indigenous channel, their national digital service will be rolled out by the end of this year. However, at the same time, there is the impending reality that all analog television stations will be switched off at the end of 2013, leaving many local stations out on a limb.

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Thursday, May 17 2012
Produced By Wade Stephens
Featured in storyDaniel Featherstone - Interim manager of Indigenous Remote Communications AssociationNeil Turner - Manager of Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal mediaHenry Augustine - Rural Broadcaster based in Beagle Bay, north of Broome
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