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ONE in Tassie: “Not good enough”

Tasmania's Minister for Corrections and Consumer Protection says TDT needs to provide ONE HD to viewers now.

one11Tasmania’s Minister for Corrections and Consumer Protection, Lisa Singh has again criticised TDT for not giving viewers ONE HD, despite screening in most mainland capital cities.

“While over states have had access to better sports coverage over the past fortnight, Tasmanians have missed out,” said Ms Singh.

After writing to TDT she said the response about the future of ONE HD in Tasmania was not good enough, and has called on TEN and TDT to move quickly to deliver the services Tasmanians expected.

“The argument that there’s no audience for this channel simply doesn’t stand up,” she said.

“More than 5500 members have now joined the Facebook group calling on TDT to broadcast ONE HD.

“It is clear that Tasmanians love their sport and would support ONE HD, and it is not good enough for the Network TEN and Tasmanian Digital Television to leave Tasmania out.”

However the issue is not one of lack of demand, but Southern Cross’ regional playout which is intended for ‘mid year.’

Tasmania is not a TEN market.

Source: tas.gov.au

13 Responses

  1. I’ll back up what Andrew B is saying. I also received advice from SC10 that they were going to introduce a full 10HD service in mid 2008. Now they’re saying mid ’09 for ONE HD. And people wonder why we’re concerned?

  2. There has been plenty of time to prepare for ONE HD. TEN HD was launched Dec 2007 and SC10 never had it.. They told us all “mid year (2008)” for that one as well – which, as we know, never happened. ONE was announced 6 months ago. SC10’s new facility in Canberra was meant to be finished prior to March 26 for the roll out of ONE and other services. Maybe they are going bankrupt which is the only reason I can (now) think of for things like this not happening on time (other than incompetence).

  3. If the issue is playout ex Canberra, then why don’t SC just simply relay the dirty feed omplete with TEN’s ad breaks’s to regional areas until SC is able to insert thier own content. They could relay the dirty feed ex TEN today if they flicked the switch. If SC does not have the ability to insert their own breaks at the moment, this should not deny regional Australia access to ONE.

  4. Who’d have thought the demand for obscure American sports would be so high, or even exist? Seriously.

    As a side note, I’m wondering why Southern Cross Ten (Northern Rivers/Gold Coast) stopped broadcasting an EPG the same day OneHD officially opened on the main Ten network? Did they lose the rights to it, did the programming become divergent from the rest of Ten (it doesn’t appear to have), or is this a portent of more sinister things to come with FreeTV?

  5. I can’t believe these complaints are still being made.
    The channel has been on the air 2 weeks.
    People can’t wait 90 days for a TV channel?
    God.

  6. and its not just the issue of one hd, Tassie has no breakaway programming on southern cross (seven affiliate) and Win HD only has a limited amount of breakaway programming

  7. at least someone in a government official position is doing something about the shocking way australian television has embraced digital tv. southern cross ten has probably had a least a 2 years to get the stations hd ready. WIN has broadcasting WINHD for about 10 months.

  8. they should just switch it on everywhere they are able to right now instead of waiting until absolutely everywhere is upgraded and switching everywhere on at once. this would at least reduce the number of complaints and would stop all the lies about not being able to yet and leave only the actual blackspots out.

  9. I have this strange feeling that a lot more people watched Ten HD then ONE HD. I guess we will find out soon. Will the ONE HD ratings be posted on here?

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