Town with no TV wins battle over digital set
Success! The small Qld town of Pentland will be allowed to keep a new digital TV set, after the government backs down.
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The little guy has won in the battle with the bureaucrats over a digital TV set in rural Queensland!
The small north Queensland town of Pentland (pictured) will be allowed to keep a new digital TV set, which was loaned to them by the Digital Switchover Taskforce.
The Australian reports that a spokesman for the minister for communications Senator Conroy said this morning the misunderstanding had been resolved with residents.
That puts an end to a David vs Goliath fight that emerged late last week.
“If they claim it’s theirs and obviously it is, we’ll give it back to them,” Pentland Progress Association spokesman Len Izatt had previously told the ABC.
“I can’t see why they would spend so much money coming out here to pick it up?
“Why would they spend more money coming all the way out into the bush to collect these TVs?”
So the locals get to keep their new wiz-bang telly with lots of snazzy multichannels after all! I wonder if they put their old tellys on the kerb whether the Digital Taskforce will come out to collect those?
This is still one of my favourite stories all year and definitely ripe for a Working Dog movie.
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Apologies for being out of the loop… but I must visit rural Australia.
Am I right in deducing that this whole community is using one television?
If that’s the case, good on them! Us-multi-telly-city-dwellers take them for granted.
Good. Thanks David for the update. 🙂
I agree. I’d watch a movie about this subject too. I loved The Castle, which is an Australian classic with a David vs Goliath theme.
Yaaay victory!! Best story I’ve heard all year and if they made a film about it I’d watch it!!
Good for them! “Misunderstanding” huh? An awful lot of those in Canberra.