Channel NSW was a community information digital television channel that was currently running under trial in the Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

 area. The service was provided and operated by the Government of New South Wales

Government of New South Wales

The form of the Government of New South Wales is prescribed in its Constitution, which dates from 1856, although it has been amended many times since then...

. It was carried via Digital 44 using the Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial (DVB-T) system had its own channel on Channel 45.

CNSW had gained a large audience, with a reach of over 250,000 households per month in Sydney. This was forecast to grow to over 1 million households by 2009.

The NSW Government had plans for NSW settlements of 2000 people or more to receive the service terrestrially.
The channel ceased transmistions at midnight during the night of April 30, 2010.

Content

Channel NSW included these programs:

• ecoNSW - environment
• PictureJockey (PJs) - photos
• Good Health NSW Health
• PeakHour - traffic, weather, and related info
• Seniors TV
• School Kid TV
• NSW Life - lifestyle
• Allballs - lottery results
• Arts Magazine
• Late Night Languages
• Careers Show
• uTVstar - community access
• NSW Parliament - live parliament feed
• Job Show - NSW Government jobs

NSW Government agencies which provided services through CNSW include the:

• Roads and Traffic Authority
  Roads and Traffic Authority
  The Roads and Traffic Authority is a former New South Wales government agency that was responsible for major road infrastructure, licensing of drivers, and registration of motor vehicles. The RTA directly managed State roads and provided funding to local councils for regional and local roads...
  
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• NSW Health;
• Department of Education and Training;
• State Emergency Service
  State Emergency Service
  A State Emergency Service is an Australian volunteer organisation that provides emergency help during and after declared disasters. The SES is also the primary or secondary agency for emergencies, such as storm damage,flood damage, building damage, traffic hazards and road crash rescue...
  
  , Rural Fire and Fire Brigades;
• Office of Industrial Relations, NSW Government Jobs Service;
• NSW Lotteries
  NSW Lotteries
  NSW Lotteries was a corporation owned by the Government of New South Wales in Australia it is currently leased to Tattersalls for 40 years. It runs games of chance through a network of agents, most of which are newsagencies...
  
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• Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority
  Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority
  The Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority is a statutory authority set up by the Government of New South Wales in order to maintain the Port Jackson foreshore area. It maintains 4 km² of waterfront real estate in the foreshore area including Darling Harbour and The Rocks...
  
  , The Rocks
  The Rocks, New South Wales
  The Rocks is an urban locality, tourist precinct and historic area of Sydney's city centre, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour, immediately north-west of the Sydney central business district...
  
  , Tourism NSW;
• Art Gallery of NSW, State Records, Powerhouse Museum
  Powerhouse Museum
  The Powerhouse Museum is the major branch of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney, the other being the historic Sydney Observatory...
  
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• Department of Environment and Conservation; and
• Sydney Water
  Sydney Water
  Sydney Water is a New South Wales government owned corporation that provides drinking water, wastewater and some stormwater services to Sydney, Illawarra and the Blue Mountains, in Australia...
  
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History

Key milestones in the development of the service to date are as follows:

• Commonwealth grants NSW trial license (December 2003);
• Initial service launched by the Minister for Commerce (March 2004);
• Remote playout operations capability enabled (July 2004);
• Initial audiovisual capability tested (August 2004);
• Block scheduling capability (February 2005);
• First field audience research (October 2005); and
• Interactive TV services lab testing (MHP) (March 2006).

Future

Channel NSW was running as a trial and is a work in progress. The NSW government had future plans for the channel which included:

• Live event coverage, such as Parliament question time;
• Automated whole-of-government announcements service; and
• "Resource Show", a hybrid media program about the environment.

External links

• Channel NSW