List of digital television channels in Australia

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This is a list of the current channels available on digital terrestrial television in Australia.

The commercial channels available to viewers depend on location and station ownership. The process of aggregation during the late 80s to mid 90s saw regional stations take on affiliations with metropolitan channels for programming, a practice that has continued into digital television with affiliated stations carrying various multichannels from their metropolitan counterparts.

Metropolitan in this list therefore refers to the capitals of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, where stations are owned and operated by the network rather than affiliates.

In areas not covered by terrestrial transmissions, the digital channels are provided by the free-to-view VAST satellite platform. The television channels on this platform are all encoded in H.264 and subject to a MPEG-LA controlled transmission patent licensing tax which is included in the VAST broadcaster cost and varies on viewership figures. The terrestrial transmissions still use H.262 which doesn't incur any addition transmission costs.

Government funded broadcasters

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
DVB name LCN Broadcast hours Format Programming content Availability
ABC 2 24 hours 576i SDTV Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign/Nationally Produced Nationwide
21
ABC HD 20 HDTV (format TBC)
(from June 2016)		 Simulcasted, Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign/Nationally Produced
ABC2/ABC Kids 22 05:00 - 02:00 576i SDTV Youth/Foreign/Nationally Produced
ABC3 23 06:00 - 22:30
ABC News 24 24 24 hours 720p HDTV
(until June 2016)		 News Bulletins
Double J 200 Stereo audio Music Radio
ABC Jazz 201
Special Broadcasting Service
DVB name LCN Broadcast hours Format Programming content Availability
SBS 3 24 hours 576i SDTV Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign Produced Nationwide
SBS HD 30 1080i HDTV Simulcasted, Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign Produced
SBS 2 32 576i SDTV Foreign Produced
Food Network 33 Lifestyle
NITV 34 Indigenous/Foreign Produced
SBS Radio 1 37 Stereo audio News Radio
SBS Radio 2 38
SBS Radio 3 39 Music Radio

Metropolitan commercial broadcasters

Seven West Media
DVB name LCN Broadcast hours Format Programming content Availability
7 Digital 7 24 hours 576i SDTV Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign/Nationally Produced Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, coastal Queensland
71
7HD 70 1080i HDTV (MPEG-4)
(from Jan 2016)		 Simulcasted, Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign/Nationally Produced
7TWO 72 576i SDTV Foreign/Nationally Produced, News Bulletins
7mate 73 1080i HDTV
(until Jan 2016)		 Foreign/Nationally Produced, News Bulletins
4ME 74 576i SDTV Infomercial
New Channel 76 576i SDTV (MPEG-4) TBC
RACING.COM 78 Horse Racing

4ME Parent Companies: Prime Media Group / Brand New Media. Seven Network feed for regional Queensland STQ services is sourced from the Prime Media Group.

Nine Entertainment Co.
DVB name LCN Broadcast hours Format Programming content Availability
9 Digital 9 24 hours 576i SDTV Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign/Nationally Produced Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth
91
9HD 90 1080i HDTV (MPEG-4) Simulcasted, Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign/Nationally Produced
9Gem 92 576i SDTV Foreign/Nationally Produced
9Go! 93 Foreign/Nationally Produced
99
9Life 94 Lifestyle
eXtra 95 Infomercial

Nine Entertainment Co. also owns Darwin Digital Television [Ten Affiliate] (Joint Venture) and NBN Television in Northern NSW.

Ten Network Holdings
DVB name LCN Broadcast hours Format Programming content Availability
TEN Digital 10 24 hours 576i SDTV Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign/Nationally Produced Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth
ELEVEN 11 Foreign/Nationally Produced
ONE 1 1080i HDTV Foreign/Nationally Produced
12
TVSN 14 576i SDTV Infomercial
Spree TV 15

Regional and remote area commercial broadcasters

WIN Corporation (Primary Nine Affiliate)

DVB name LCN Broadcast hours Format Programming content Availability
WIN 8 24 hours 576i SDTV Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign/Nationally Produced Regional QLD, Southern NSW, ACT, Regional VIC, Mildura, TAS, Eastern SA, Regional/Remote WA and Griffith/Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area
GEM 80 1080i HDTV Foreign/Nationally Produced
GOLD 82 576i SDTV Infomercial
GOLD2 84
GO! 88 Foreign/Nationally Produced
DVB name LCN Broadcast hours Format Programming content Availability
TEN 5 24 hours 576i SDTV Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign/Nationally Produced Regional WA, remote Western service, Griffith/Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, NSW and Mildura, VIC and Eastern SA
ONE 50 1080i HDTV Foreign/Nationally Produced
ELEVEN 55 576i SDTV Foreign/Nationally Produced
DVB name LCN Broadcast hours Format Programming content Availability
7 Digital 6 24 hours 576i SDTV Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign/Nationally Produced Griffith/Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area NSW, Eastern SA
7TWO 62 576i SDTV Foreign/Nationally Produced, News Bulletins
7mate 63 1080i HDTV

WIN Corporation also owns: Seven Griffith, Ten Griffith, Seven SA (Eastern SA), Ten SA (Eastern SA), Ten West (Regional WA - Joint Venture), Mildura Digital Television [Ten Affiliate] (Joint Venture), Tasmanian Digital Television [Ten Affiliate] (Joint Venture). For complete commercial coverage of the Griffith, NSW, Mildura, VIC, Mt. Gambier, SA and Riverland, SA areas.

NBN Television (Northern NSW, Gold Coast, QLD and Darwin Nine Affiliate)

DVB name LCN Broadcast hours Format Programming content Availability
NBN Digital 8 24 hours 576i SDTV Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign/Nationally Produced Northern NSW and Gold Coast
GEM 80 1080i HDTV Foreign/Nationally Produced
eXtra 84 576i SDTV Infomercial
eXtra2 85 Timeshifted, Infomercial
GO! 88 Foreign/Nationally Produced
DVB name LCN Broadcast hours Format Programming content Availability
9 Digital 9 24 hours 576i SDTV Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign/Nationally Produced Darwin
91
9HD 90 1080i HDTV (MPEG-4) Simulcasted, Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign/Nationally Produced
9Gem 92 576i SDTV Foreign/Nationally Produced
9Go! 93 Foreign/Nationally Produced
99
9Life 94 Lifestyle
eXtra 95 Infomercial

NBN Television is owned by Nine Entertainment Co and is the source of the network feed provided to the Imparja and Southern Cross remote services as well as the Darwin channels.

Southern Cross Austereo (Primary Ten Affiliate)

DVB name LCN Broadcast hours Format Programming content Availability
SC10 5 24 hours 576i SDTV Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign/Nationally Produced Regional QLD, Northern NSW, Southern NSW, ACT, Regional VIC, Broken Hill/Western SA
TDT Tasmania
DDT 10 Darwin
TEN Central Remote eastern/central service
TVSN 54 Infomercial Regional QLD, Northern NSW, Southern NSW, ACT, Regional VIC, Broken Hill/Western SA
ELEVEN 55 Foreign/Nationally Produced
Aspire TV 56 Infomercial Regional QLD, Northern NSW, Southern NSW, ACT, Regional VIC
ONE 50 1080i HDTV Foreign/Nationally Produced Regional QLD, Northern NSW, Southern NSW, ACT, Regional VIC, Broken Hill/Western SA
1 Darwin and remote eastern/central service
ELEVEN 11 576i SDTV
DVB name LCN Broadcast hours Format Programming content Availability
GTS BKN 6 24 hours 576i SDTV Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign/Nationally Produced Western SA/Broken Hill
SCTV Tasmania
7 Darwin and remote eastern/central service
7TWO 62 Foreign/Nationally Produced, News Bulletins Tasmania and Western SA/Broken Hill
72 Darwin and remote eastern/central service
7mate 60 1080i HDTV Tasmania and Western SA/Broken Hill
70 Darwin and remote eastern/central service
TVSN 64 576i SDTV Infomercial Tasmania
74 Darwin
Aspire TV 66 Tasmania and Western SA/Broken Hill
76 Darwin
DVB name LCN Broadcast hours Format Programming content Availability
SC Nine 8 24 hours 576i SDTV Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign/Nationally Produced Western SA/Broken Hill
GEM 80 1080i HDTV Foreign/Nationally Produced
GO! 88 576i SDTV

Southern Cross Austereo also owns Nine SA (Western SA/Broken Hill), Tasmanian Digital Television [Ten Affiliate] (Joint Venture), Darwin Digital Television [Ten Affiliate] (Joint Venture), Ten Central (Joint Venture). Seven network feed is sourced from the Prime Media Group and the Nine network feed is sourced from NBN Television.

Prime Media Group (Primary Seven Affiliate)

DVB name LCN Broadcast hours Format Programming content Availability
GWN7 6 24 hours 576i SDTV Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign/Nationally Produced Regional/Remote WA
Prime7 6 Northern NSW, Southern NSW, ACT, Regional VIC, Mildura, outer Gold Coast
60
61
7 6 outer Sunshine Coast and Toowooba
60
61
7TWO 62 576i SDTV Foreign/Nationally Produced, News Bulletins Northern NSW, Southern NSW, ACT, Regional VIC, Mildura, Regional Queensland, Regional/Remote WA
7mate 63 1080i HDTV
4ME 64 576i SDTV Infomercial
ishop tv 65 Northern NSW, Southern NSW, ACT, Regional VIC, outer Gold Coast
RACING.COM 68 576i SDTV (MPEG-4) Horse Racing

Prime Media Group also owns Ten West (Regional WA - Joint Venture), Mildura Digital Television [Ten Affiliate] (Joint Venture). Provides Seven network feed to Southern Cross Tasmanian, Darwin and remote services. Also provides Seven network feed to STQ regional Queensland services. 4ME is a joint venture with Brand New Media and ishop tv is a joint venture with Brand Developers.

Imparja Television (Remote Nine Affiliate)

DVB name LCN Broadcast hours Format Programming content Availability
Imparja 9 24 hours 576i SDTV Primary Channel, News Bulletins, Foreign/Nationally Produced Remote eastern/central service
91
GEM 90 1080i HDTV Foreign/Nationally Produced
GO! 99 576i SDTV

Imparja Television also owns Ten Central (Joint Venture). Nine network feed is sourced from NBN Television.

Local broadcasters

DVB name LCN Broadcast hours Format Programming content Availability
C31 Melbourne 44 24 hours 576i SDTV Locally Produced, News Bulletins Melbourne (Mt Dandenong and Como Centre, South Yarra transmitters)
44 Adelaide 24 hours Adelaide (Crafers transmitter)
31 Digital 24 hours Brisbane (Mt Coot-tha transmitter)
West TV 24 hours Perth (Carmel transmitter)
Goolari Media Enterprises
DVB name LCN Broadcast hours Format Programming content Availability
Television 1 40 24 hours 576i SDTV Locally Produced Broome, WA
Television 2 41
Television 3 42
Radio 1 401 Stereo audio News Radio
Radio 2 402
Larakia TV Darwin
DVB name LCN Broadcast hours Format Programming content Availability
Aboriginal TV 41 24 hours 576i SDTV Locally Produced Darwin, NT
Tourism TV 42
Education TV 43
TV NT 44
Larrakia Radio 401 Stereo audio News Radio
National Aboriginal Radio 402 Music Radio
Darwin FM 402 News Radio

VAST miscellaneous broadcasters

Other national/state government funded
DVB name LCN Broadcast hours Format Programming content Availability
ICTV 601 24 hours 576i SDTV Community/Indigenous Produced Regional and Remote
Westlink 602 Community Regional and Remote Western Australia
RPH 610 Stereo audio News Radio Regional and Remote state localized
NIRS 611 Regional and Remote
3RPH 612
BBC World Service 613
CBAA 614

Discontinued channels

DVB name LCN Launch date Discontinued date Notes
ABC Kids/
Fly TV		 21 1 Aug 2001 30 Jun 2003 Youth focused channel axed due to budget cuts. Replaced by ABC2 on channel 22 in 2005. Youth focused channel ABC3 on channel 23 launched in 2009.
MyTalk 55 13 Apr 2007 25 Feb 2008 DVB EIT used over News and EPG channel in regional only areas.
66
77
SBS Essential 31 14 Oct 2002 25 Jan 2007 DVB EIT used over EPG channel.
Ten Guide 11 1 Jul 2004 20 Nov 2007
Seven Guide 77 6 Sep 2002 4 Jul 2008
Nine Guide 99 21 Aug 2001 13 Nov 2008
TEN HD 1 16 Dec 2007 26 Mar 2009 Replaced by ONE.
SBS World News Channel 32 12 Jun 2002 1 Jun 2009 Replaced by SBS 2.
ONE SD 11 26 Mar 2009 15 Dec 2010 SD picture format replaced by ELEVEN on channel 11.
Rural Health Channel 600 21 May 2012 Jan 2014 VAST channel.
Fresh Ideas TV 78 23 Nov 2013 1 Dec 2014 Infomercial channel. Replaced with RACING.COM in 2015.

Digital 44 trialed channels

The following channels were only available in Sydney as the Digital 44 suite of channels. Prior to the end of the datacast trial on 30 April 2010.

Aurora

DVB name Notes
TAB Channel Discontinued during Feb 2005
Macquarie Digital Discontinued on 11 Jun 2007
DTV Guide VPG channel.
NITV Moved to SBS multiplexed transport.
Digital 44: ABC News, Sport & Weather Non-commercial only.
Digital 44 Homepage
Teachers TV Launched November 2008.
Australian Christian Channel Still available via subscription satellite and Internet streaming.
EXPO Still available via FoxTel FTA satellite.
House of Representatives Channel Moved to Channel 47, c. June 2007.
Senate Channel Moved to Channel 48, c. June 2007.
House of Representatives Main Committee Room Discontinued prior to trial end.
Committee Rooms 1-4

References

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