Editing Telecommunications in Australia (section)

===Television===
{{Main article|Television broadcasting in Australia}} 
As early as 1929, two Melbourne commercial radio stations, [[3UZ]] and [[KIIS 101.1|3DB]] were conducting experimental mechanical television broadcasts – these were conducted in the early hours of the morning, after the radio stations had officially closed down. In 1934 Dr Val McDowall<ref>[https://members.racp.edu.au/page/library/college-roll/college-roll-detail&id=496 College Roll: McDowall, Valentine, ''The Royal Australasian College of Physicians'']</ref> at amateur station 4CM Brisbane<ref>[https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:212637/s00855804_1961_1962_6_4_750.pdf Charles Porter, (1962), Broadcasting in Queensland. ''Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland'', 6 4, pp. 750-761.]</ref> conducted experiments in electronic television.

Television broadcasting officially began in Sydney and Melbourne just prior to the [[1956 Summer Olympics|Melbourne Olympic Games]] in November/December 1956 and then phased in at other capital cities, and then into rural markets. Many forms of entertainment, particularly drama and variety, proved more suited to television than radio, so the actors and producers migrated there.

It now includes a broad range of public, commercial, community, subscription, narrowcast, and amateur stations across the country. Colour television in the [[PAL#PAL-B.2FG.2FD.2FK.2FI|PAL 625-line format]] went to a full-time basis in 1975. Subscription television, on the [[Galaxy (Australian television)|Galaxy]] platform, began in 1995. Digital terrestrial television was introduced in 2001.<ref>Albert Moran and Chris Keating. ''The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television'' (Scarecrow Press, 2009)</ref>

Australia moved from PAL 625 to [[DVB-T]] on 10 December 2013.

Subscription television, whether [[Foxtel]] or [[Netflix]] type services, has become more important and is one factor driving demand for the [[National Broadband Network]].