Channel 31 Melbourne

C31 Melbourne
Launched	6 October 1994
Owned by	Melbourne Community Television Consortium
Picture format	576i (SDTV) 16:9
Slogan	We are Melbourne & Geelong
Country	Australia
Language	English
Broadcast area	Melbourne, Geelong, surrounding areas
Website	c31.org.au
Availability
Terrestrial
DVB-T	32 (Melbourne) 42 (South Yarra)
Freeview (virtual)	44

C31 Melbourne is a free-to-air community television channel in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Its signal is transmitted from Mt. Dandenong and Como Centre, South Yarra, reaching much of the Greater Melbourne, Geelong and West Gippsland areas on free-to-air television [1].

The station began broadcasting officially on 6 October 1994. The Australian Broadcasting Authority had granted Melbourne Community Television Consortium (MCTC) with a temporary open-narrowcast licence on 5 March 1993. The framework of community television in Australia can be traced back to 1992, when the Government asked the ABA to conduct a trial of community television using the vacant sixth television channel 31. On 30 July 2004, the Australian Broadcasting Authority granted the station a full-time community broadcasting licence.

C31 began broadcasting in digital during June 2010.

C31 is primarily funded through sponsorship, grants, sale of airtime and member donations. The station does not receive any regular Government funding. The annual revenue of C31 is approximately (AUD) $2 million per year. For comparison, the Nine Network, an Australian commercial station, has $907 million annual revenue. The station claims that "1.4 million Melbournians tune in each month" this figure is supplied by the ratings company OzTam. Individual programs can have ratings of up to 180,000 viewers.

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