Channels 31 & 44 launch CTV+ streaming
Community TV stations embark on new free streaming service with Live & Catch-up titles.
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Community TV stations C31 Melbourne and C44 Adelaide have launched an online streaming service – CTV+.
CTV+ launches as a free website available now at ctvplus.org.au and has both Android and iOS versions in development for future release in early 2022.
The service offers Live linear broadcast feeds as well a catch up of over 20 locally produced programs, with plans to double content over the next six months.
C31 Melbourne’s General Manager Shane Dunlop said of the platform, “We have been wanting to provide our viewers with a robust online service for years now, but with the ongoing uncertainty surrounding our free-to-air broadcast licence we simply never had the capacity to spend the vast time and financial resources towards developing one. It was the shared belief by all within the Community TV sector that an online offering should be developed as a complementary service alongside our free-to-air signal. With a guarantee of at least three more years on TV, we are able to finally proceed with confidence in the new platform.”
C44 Adelaide’s General Manager Lauren Hillman added, “Both stations are excited for this next phase of Community TV online. Not only will this new free service allow audiences to continue streaming our current linear free-to-air channels online, but it will also provide one home of Community TV nationally where viewers can catch up on high-quality, locally produced series on demand.”
CTV+ launches with a fantastic cross section of Community TV programs including Rediscover Victoria, Off the Couch with Ethan, Move It or Lose It, The Cellar Door: New Zealand, Roaming the Outback, The Holistic Approach and many more.
“We look forward to expanding the content available on CTV+ and we encourage content makers from across country to consider Community Television, both on free-to-air and its online offering, as a fantastic multi-platform home for their programs,” said Shane Dunlop. Lauren Hillman continued, “We are proud to continue to showcase local and diverse voices and launching CTV+ will allow our program and content makers to reach wider audiences in remote and regional communities.”
Both broadcasters recently won a three-year renewal of their free-to-air broadcast licences with the government keen to see an online presence in order to take back valuable spectrum.
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Good to see C31 and co to get this on board.
..shame the lib gov is forcing the spectrum off the…they haven’t stated what purpose they want it for…no urgency so what’s the rush..