RMITV

Specialties

RMITV is RMIT University’s very own television production house, funded generously by the University in conjunction with RMIT University Student Union (RUSU). RMITV is dedicated to providing hands on television experience to students. We produce content to be broadcast on Channel 31 Melbourne and have helped many students find their way to careers in the television industry.

We are also one of the founding members of the Melbourne Community Television Consortium; the not-​for-​profit consortium that operates the community access channel Channel 31 in Melbourne. We also work to provide opportunities to members of the local community wanting to get involved in television production.

History

Established in 1987.

RMITV is one of the oldest community television organisations in Australia, having been involved in lobbying the government for community access to the television spectrum. It transmitted its first test broadcast in 1987, which controversially at the time wasn’t licensed by the authorities. RMITV was also responsible for broadcasting ETV, a closed-​circuit television system operated at the RMIT Campus in previous years.

The government encouraged Melbourne’s many aspirant community television broadcasters to form an umbrella organisation to apply for a broadcasting license, and so RMITV became a founding member of the Melbourne Community Television Consortium; the license holder for Melbourne’s Channel 31.

Throughout its time RMITV has produced some of the most well known programs on Australian community television, including: The Loft Live, Under Melbourne Tonight, Chartbusting 80s, Raucous, Dawns Crack, PLUCK, Studio A and countless outside broadcasts. [Wikipedia]