Northern Access Television Association Inc. 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 . 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.
WHAT'S HAPPENING AT NAT!
2008 NAT Annual General Meeting
The 2008 Annual General Meeting of Northern Access Television will be held on:-
Sunday, 28th September at 2:00pm at the Noise Bar. (291 Albert St, Brunswick)
All members of NAT as well as people interested in joining the group are welcome to attend the meeting.
Formal Notices of the meeting and nomination forms will be posted out to members shortly.
Volunteers
Thank you to those who have expressed interest in volunteering with Northern Access Television.
At present we have many more interested volunteers than available positions!
We will, however, keep your details on file, and will advise you as opportunities become available with NAT.
Make C31 Licensed and Digital!
Please support C31's drive to obtain a Digital TV Licence to enable us to continue to transmit programs after the end of Analogue TV. We are the only existing free to air channel that does not already have a Digital Licence. For more information see the campaign webpage here
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.
Local Community TV Production Workshop
Richard Micallef and Michael Costello held a workshop in 2007 in our local Northern Suburbs community. Read Richard’s report here for more details.Noise Bar Community Studio
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.
Northern Access Television’s Objectives
NAT represents the northern suburbs community at MCTC, and is the only association with this purpose. NAT 's objectives are:
- To provide public access to television transmission;
- To produce programs by, for and about the people of the northern suburbs community; and
- 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.
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