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List of digital television channels in Australia

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This is a list of the current channels available on digital terrestrial television in Australia.

The commercial channels available to viewers depend on location and station ownership. The process of aggregation during the late 80s to mid 90s saw regional stations take on affiliations with metropolitan channels for programming, a practice that has continued into digital television with affiliated stations carrying various multichannels from their metropolitan counterparts.

Metropolitan in this list therefore refers to the capitals of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, where stations are owned and operated by the network rather than affiliates. Regional in this list therefore refers to the capitals of Canberra, Hobart and Darwin, where stations are owned and operated by the network affiliates.

In areas not covered by terrestrial transmissions, the digital channels are provided by the free-to-view VAST satellite platform. The television channels on this platform are all encoded in H.264 and subject to a MPEG-LA controlled transmission patent licensing tax which is included in the VAST broadcaster cost and varies on viewership figures. The terrestrial transmissions still use H.262, which doesn't incur any additional transmission costs, but select channels are broadcast terrestrially in H.264.

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Public broadcasters

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Special Broadcasting Service

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Commercial network broadcasters

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Seven West Media

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STQ Regional QLD services broadcast on 6x LCNs where signal overlap with BTQ Brisbane occurs.

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Seven West Media also co-owns 10 affiliates WDT (with WIN Corporation), Tasmanian Digital Television (with WIN Corporation), Darwin Digital Television (with Nine Entertainment), CDT (with Imparja Television) and horse racing channel Racing.com (with Racing Victoria). TVSN is owned by Direct Group.

Nine Entertainment

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Nine Entertainment also co-owns Ten affiliate DTD in Darwin (with Seven West Media), and adventure channel 9Rush (with Warner Bros. Discovery).

Paramount Australia & New Zealand

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Commercial affiliate broadcasters

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WIN Corporation (Primary Nine affiliate)

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WIN Corporation also co-owns 10 affiliates WDT (with Seven West Media), and TDT (with Seven West Media).

Imparja Television (Remote Nine affiliate)

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Imparja Television also co-owns 10 affiliate CDT (joint venture with Seven West Media).

Joint venture stations

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West Digital Television is co-owned by Seven West Media and Nine affiliate WIN Corporation.

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Tasmanian Digital Television is co-owned by Seven West Media and Nine affiliate WIN Corporation.

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Central Digital Television is co-owned by Seven West Media and Nine affiliate Imparja Television.

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Darwin Digital Television is co-owned by Seven West Media and Nine Entertainment.

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Local broadcasters

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Open narrowcasting services

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Community television

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VAST satellite services

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ICTV is available via terrestrial television in Alice Springs and Broome, and via VAST in other areas.

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Discontinued channels

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Digital Forty Four

The following channels were only available in Sydney as the Digital Forty Four suite of channels. The datacast trial began on 17 March 2004 and ended on 30 April 2010.

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Notes

  1. One company has a monopoly in this area, as the Australian Communications and Media Authority believes it cannot support more than one commercial television company, but can support multiple commercial television services.

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