NEW! - Become a Member Online!

Our Online Membership Form is now available, with payments by PayPal or Mail

Northern Access Television Association Inc. (NAT) is a community based non-profit television production group founded in 1990, and is a full member of the Melbourne Community Television Consortium ("MCTC"), which holds the licence for Channel 31. The group produces a wide variety of content for broadcast, and we need the support of the community to continue our production activities and to have continued access to airtime on C31 Melbourne. We rely on the support of our volunteer members and the general public to keep producing programs for the Melbourne community, as we receive no regular sources of funding for our production activities.

Melbourne Community Groups:-

If you require assistance with getting your message accross, feel free to contact us at Northern Access Television. We can provide interviews on our NAT Chat program and/or Community Service Annoucements during breaks on C31 Melbourne. We are happy to help :)

NAT needs your support

If you like our programs please consider supporting us by emailing any of your friends who you think might beinterested in our programs with the address of our site. We are also on the look out for sponsors, both for this site and for each of our programs, especially Nat Chat, to enable us to continue to do what we do, so if you know anyone who may be able to sponsor us please consider mentioning us to them.

NAT on YouTube


Northern Access Television now has a YouTube channel which features videos from the group and links to our member's YouTube channels. Currently, the channel features our current series of production logos and some special footage from our Test Transmissions in the early 1990s. NAT Chat, Visions, Spirit Of Life, Red Lobster and Inline Plus have their own channels on YouTube with highlights from the shows, as well as a YouTube only service SkatePace

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Noise Bar Community Studio

noise bar logo The Noise Bar Community Studio is located at 291 Albert Street, Brunswick. We would welcome enquires from your production group to use our facility, whether for shoots or your events
Please contact Simon Moore for enquiries and bookings.



Our Objectives


NAT represents the northern suburbs community at MCTC, and is the only association with this purpose. NAT 's objectives are:
  1. To provide public access to television transmission;
  2. To produce programs by, for and about the people of the northern suburbs community; and
  3. To focus upon issues of local, social, artistic and cultural relevance.

NAT has been actively involved with community television since its inception in Melbourne, first by conducting test transmissions in the Northern Suburbs, and then moving on to producing programs for C31 Melbourne when it commenced in 1994.

NAT relies on volunteers to run the association, to produce programs and to fulfil its obligations to MCTC. Funds are raised from membership fees, donations and sponsorships. The generosity of our members have helped us maintain our high standard of productions. In this Digital Age , your support, whether financial such as donations, sponsorships or as a productive member of NAT, will ensure our future within this wide & interesting world of television broadcasting.


 

C31 News

C31 now on digital!

After a long campaign to secure a digital licence, one was granted to C31 by the Federal Government in 2009. The works required to begin broadcasting in digital have now been completed, and we're sending out a digital signal. This means that you can now pick C31 up on your digital TV or set top box! For more information about tuning in for the first time, please click here.

C31 is aware that some programs are being broadcast with a black border around them. This is because many of the programs are not in widescreen, and therefore not the correct size for our widescreen broadcast. This will be phased out as we begin to accept widescreen programs.

What if I don't have a Digital TV?
C31 will be simulcasting, which means our existing analogue service will continue to operate in addition to our new digital service. This will continue until analogue transmission is switched off by the Federal Government in 2013.

NAT News

Welcome to our new online home!

Welcome to our new look website!

Please bear with us as we get our site fully functional again.

If you notice any dead links, please email us and we will get to work on putting it right!

NAT Chat is offline at this time, but we will put it back as quickly as possible.