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MARTIN
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Fri Apr 22, 2005 8:08 am Post subject:
ABC blocks Aurora |
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Since April 18th the ABC have been blocking TV channels for Northern
Territory subscribers of Aurora. This is due to the Murdock/Falconio/Lees
judicial case. I was told today by 'ABC reception difficulties' : " that
when the contentious issues are over all the channels will be restored -
there is nothing wrong with your decoder "!!
The funny thing was Optus didn't know it was happening till I rang them,
they investigated it and said it was the ABC's doing for political reasons.
Cheers
Chris Martin |
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Hubble
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Fri Apr 22, 2005 3:14 pm Post subject:
Re: ABC blocks Aurora |
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There are a couple ofitems of evidence that the judge has decreed should not
be available to people in the Notrthern Territory as it could prejudice a
fair trial. The judgewas very careful to tell all networks that they had to
make sure that if their service could reach the NT it could not contain any
of the evidence that was suppressed. This has meant the media outlets with
websites have had to report the abridged version of the evidence.
I flew from darwin to Sydney on one of days the first hearing was on they
they happily showed the full story on the airlines in flight news program.
When I got home to darwin the Channel 7 news had large chunks "missing".
They literally went to a blank screen or a message slide while the Falconio
stuff was on air.
From this I think we can assume that the reason fr the deletion is not
"political" but judicial. I also think that ABC would only be able to stop
their own broadcasts, not other organisations.
"MARTIN" <martincg@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:AQ_9e.19479$5F3.8957@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
| Quote: | Since April 18th the ABC have been blocking TV channels for Northern
Territory subscribers of Aurora. This is due to the Murdock/Falconio/Lees
judicial case. I was told today by 'ABC reception difficulties' : " that
when the contentious issues are over all the channels will be restored -
there is nothing wrong with your decoder "!!
The funny thing was Optus didn't know it was happening till I rang them,
they investigated it and said it was the ABC's doing for political
reasons.
Cheers
Chris Martin
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bassett
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Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:08 am Post subject:
Re: ABC blocks Aurora |
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They only had a block on the "central 7 " transmission. Normal Channel 7
broadcast was complete, and the same can be said for the ABC transmission,
They only blocked the channel that people in Darwin had legal access too. If
however you had open access, it was simply a matter of selecting a
differant ABC channel.
bassett
"Hubble" <hubble@mindless.com> wrote in message
news:4268cb8c$1_1@news.adelaide.pipenetworks.com...
| Quote: | There are a couple ofitems of evidence that the judge has decreed should
not be available to people in the Notrthern Territory as it could
prejudice a fair trial. The judgewas very careful to tell all networks
that they had to make sure that if their service could reach the NT it
could not contain any of the evidence that was suppressed. This has meant
the media outlets with websites have had to report the abridged version of
the evidence.
I flew from darwin to Sydney on one of days the first hearing was on they
they happily showed the full story on the airlines in flight news program.
When I got home to darwin the Channel 7 news had large chunks "missing".
They literally went to a blank screen or a message slide while the
Falconio stuff was on air.
From this I think we can assume that the reason fr the deletion is not
"political" but judicial. I also think that ABC would only be able to stop
their own broadcasts, not other organisations.
"MARTIN" <martincg@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:AQ_9e.19479$5F3.8957@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
Since April 18th the ABC have been blocking TV channels for Northern
Territory subscribers of Aurora. This is due to the Murdock/Falconio/Lees
judicial case. I was told today by 'ABC reception difficulties' : " that
when the contentious issues are over all the channels will be restored -
there is nothing wrong with your decoder "!!
The funny thing was Optus didn't know it was happening till I rang them,
they investigated it and said it was the ABC's doing for political
reasons.
Cheers
Chris Martin
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AWS
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Sun Apr 24, 2005 12:08 am Post subject:
Re: ABC blocks Aurora |
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"MARTIN" <martincg@bigpond.com> wrote in news:AQ_9e.19479$5F3.8957@news-
server.bigpond.net.au:
| Quote: | Since April 18th the ABC have been blocking TV channels for Northern
Territory subscribers of Aurora.
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For some maybe. And some say goldcards are now useless.... |
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bassett
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Sun Apr 24, 2005 8:08 am Post subject:
Re: ABC blocks Aurora |
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Well you got that right, no need for cards , these days, old school
technology.
"AWS" <no@no.no> wrote in message
| Quote: | For some maybe. And some say goldcards are now useless
"MARTIN" <martincg@bigpond.com> wrote in
Since April 18th the ABC have been blocking TV channels for Northern
Territory subscribers of Aurora.
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