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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Jan 23, 2018 16:40:10 GMT
Amazon Prime is now available in Australia, but the selection is pitifully small. Pretty much useless to be honest. I wish someone would launch a streaming service in Australia that doesn't suck. I kind of find it interesting that so many of the people on this site who are living in Australia don't recognize the significance of the country and it's lack of television entertainment. I remember we had a couple of Australian education liazons back when I started teaching and they told me how back then they had only 4tv channels and two were either news or educational. Australia had five channels starting in the 1980s: Seven Network, Nine Network and Network Ten being the commercial networks, ABC being non-commercial (but along with educational/cultural shows it also features things like sketch comedies and such), and SBS being the cultural channel. Prior to the 1980s, there were four networks (Seven, Nine, Ten and ABC). Prior to mid-1960s there were three networks (Seven, Nine and ABC). Starting from the 1990s some Australian cities had a sixth channel, Channel 31, which was the community channel. Mid-1990s onwards there was also cable, featuring channels like Cartoon Network, Discovery Channel, TV1 (basically like TV Land) and so on. These days there are a lot more over-the-air channels thanks to digitial television. |
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