WA May lose Access 31?!? Help Save Access 31
Tue, 10 June 2008, 11:18 amLabrug56 posts in thread
WA May lose Access 31?!? Help Save Access 31
Tue, 10 June 2008, 11:18 amI recevied this email from Scott Hunt Managing Director ego creative media, producers of Wake Up! WA...
Hi all,
Those of who who are members of Access 31 will have received a letter last week notifying you of a member's meeting on June 27th and the board's intention to liquidate the station if a solid commitment and timeframe is not made by the Federal Government ensuring that Access 31 will be granted access to the digital spectrum.
We need to act to ensure the future of Access 31 by showing our support and letting Senator Stephen Conroy know that by not acting now WA will lose a valuable asset and will affect the lives of those involved in the local community TV sector.
Below is a sample letter. Feel free to copy it into a new email and send directly to Senator Conroy at senator.conroy@aph.gov.au
Please also cc it to Access 31 at reception@accesstvwa.com
Please also consider writing your own letter expressing what community TV means to you and how our community will be worse off without it.
It is important that you take the time to make an effort to SAVE OUR STATION. Please pass this onto as many people as you can.
Cheers, Scott
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SAVE OUR STATION
Help ACCESS 31 Perth Go Digital
To the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Dear Minister,
Do not allow the Western Australian community to lose our valuable community asset - ACCESS 31 Community Television. The company has a limited window of opportunity to stave off liquidation. They must be given a commitment from the Federal Government for a digital future, before the 27th of June 2008.
Minister, please give ACCESS 31:
- Access to digital spectrum
- Legislative change to allow it to go digital
- Time frame to go digital
- Funding for the transition to digital
For nine years ACCESS 31 has provided a diverse local community television service which has grown in stature and now forms an integral part of the local community’s social fabric.
The many volunteers who have dedicated their time and effort to contribute to the service will no longer have the platform to gain vital experience in pursuing television and media careers. Many producers and hundreds of community groups will no longer have access to this service and their community.
Minister you must act now or ACCESS 31’s demise will see the loss of a valuable local community asset and will cause concern to the hundreds of thousands of viewers and thousands of people involved with the station and its programming.
[Insert your name and address]
Thankyou Mr. "Stokes"
Sun, 15 June 2008, 09:30 amMaybe I tend to look at things from a simple point of view, but I cannot for the life of me see why we cant do our best to save C31 and once it is up and running on a Digital level THEN try to sort out what is wrong with it's format and "quality of productions".
It seems to me that the quality of the output from the station is pretty much irrelevant if the station is no longer there.
Perhaps part of the reason for the "production of stuff of sh*t quality" is because C31 is manned for the most part by die hard volunteers who need assistance. Instead of sitting back and saying, "This is shite!", why not get down to Belmont, go to the station, fill in the paperwork, join the team and see what you can do to help them change it?
OK, so maybe there are managerial problems at the top, but surely they have to listen to what the populace want? Surely they would take notice when told/shown that there is a better way of producing? Who knows, if the prodcut improves, so do the ratings and then perhaps, just perhaps, so would the mangerial salaries and it may even flow a bit further downstream to the techs and presenters??
But, hey, it's much simpler to throw the hands up and say "Too hard! See ya!" and walk away. Rather like saying: "The world is apathetic, but who cares."
One person CAN make a difference, but several with a common interest make it heck of a lot easier...
"Just because no-one complains, it does not mean all parachutes are perfect."
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