{"id":63351,"date":"2019-01-03T19:07:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T11:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/australia-gives-10m-in-funding-for-access-satellite-television-service\/"},"modified":"2019-01-03T19:07:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T11:07:43","slug":"australia-gives-10m-in-funding-for-access-satellite-television-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/australia-gives-10m-in-funding-for-access-satellite-television-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Gives $10M in Funding for Access Satellite Television Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Australian Minister for Regional Services Senator Bridget McKenzie revealed that the government is providing &nbsp;$10 million in additional funding to secure the Viewer Access Satellite Television Service (VAST) for regional Australians until 2021.<\/p>\n<p>VAST provides commercial and national television services free-to-air to around 500,000 Australian viewers in regional Australia, including 30,000 travelers.&nbsp;The government also released the 2018 review of the VAST service, which includes the key recommendation that the service should continue to be provided through the current satellite delivery model.<\/p>\n<p>VAST has been operating since 2010, as part of the national switchover to digital television. The $10 million in additional funding will add to more than $127 million in funding committed to the service since 2010. VAST is also supported by contributions from broadcasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Minister for Regional Services Senator Bridget McKenzie revealed that the government is providing &nbsp;$10 million in additional funding to secure the Viewer Access Satellite Television Service (VAST) for regional Australians until 2021. VAST provides commercial and national television services free-to-air to around 500,000 Australian viewers in regional Australia, including 30,000 travelers.&nbsp;The government also released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}