Highlights from YouTube – Regional TV Australia

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Program on Bendigo Community TV’s attempt to get on air.

June 13, 2015June 25, 2015 - by Michael Costello

With the current debates on Community TV and it’s future in the capital cities, it might be a good time to look back on what happened to try and get …

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Anniversary Specials

January 24, 2015June 25, 2015 - by Michael Costello

It was the late 80s, and many of the Regional TV networks were getting nervous about their futures, as new technology seemed to be developing everyday. As most of the …

Regional TV Australia is a website dedicated to the TV Stations outside the five major Capital Cities in Australia. We are interested in the history of Regional TV, mainly in the pre-Aggregation era, but also in the current operations of the major Regional TV networks. The project started as the "regionaltv" YouTube Channel in April 2008, where I set up a list of "favorites" from the many regional clips posted by members of YouTube.

This project is run by Michael Costello, a resident of Melbourne, Australia. I enjoyed watching the independent Regional TV Stations BCV 8 and GMV 6 while on holidays on our relative's farm in Bamawm, near Echuca in Regional Victoria, and really miss the local content that used to set these stations apart before the Aggregation process took it all away in the early 1990s.