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July 2021 www.nat.org.au Newsletter for Northern Access Television Assn Inc Members Association Number A0024250G “NAT Celebration Night” finally goes ahead! - Page 10 Community TV to stay “on air” until mid 2024 - Page 3 FEEDBACK AND CONTRIBUTIONS: -By email to [email protected] Inside this Around The Group Page 4 David McLauchlan Page 6 issue…... Chronicles X : Golden Plains Shire Page 8 C31 Melbourne Press Release Page 20 “One Last Time!’ Page 22 2 About The Association….2 NAT TV Guide Postal Address Digital TV c/- Thornbury Community Church Channel 44 16 - 18 Martin St Current regular programs on air Thornbury VIC 3071 (Times subject to change and Annual Membership programs may be repeated) $31 ($15 concession) Spirit of Life Office Bearers:- Thursday 12:00pm Chair: Simon Moore Deputy Chair: Michael Costello In-depth Christian Interviews Treasurer: Poppi Athinis Harmony In Diversity Secretary: Paul Spanos In Recess [email protected] Committee Meetings Multi-faith and Inter-faith Program Scheduled as required - please Zontas 100% contact Secretary for times and Sunday 9:00am R Thurs 12:30pm locations. NAT Members Greek Christian Program welcome to attend. Annual General Meeting Immigrant Strong September 26th, 2021 - 2:30pm In Recess at Thornbury Community Church Candid interviews with Leaders. Newsletter Editor Kultur Shok Michael Costello Please send news items to:- Coming Soon [email protected] Multicultural Performances. Northern Access Television Assn Chronicles X : Inc. is proudly a Full Member of Golden Plains Shire the Melbourne Community Coming Soon (Network TBC) Television Consortium Ltd. 2 Haunted Encounters. Community TV 3 gets three more years “on the air”. Following a big Community campaign, it was action in the parliament that gave C31 Melbourne and 44 Adelaide a further three years on air, just seven days before the stations were due to switch off. The announcement to producers was made by Shane Dunlop in an emailed Press Release on Wednesday 23/6/2021 (see page 20 & 21 to read this) The new deadline for Community TV to leave the air is June 30th, 2024. By then, there will be a new Community TV Online Portal, to be called “CTV+”, where you will be able to watch the best of the two stations on demand. It is expected that this will be promoted by the station over the next three years, so viewers will get used to the idea of the online service. It is up to all to make best use of the extra three years this offers to the program providers. Part of this year’s campaign by C31 in the leadup to this year’s 3 year renewal 424 Around the Group 25 NAT Annual General Meeting - ADVANCE NOTICE As agreed at the last AGM, the next Annual General Meeting of Northern Access Television Assn Inc will be held on :- Sunday 26th September, 2021 from 2:30pm (unless not permitted) The meeting will be held at Thornbury Community Church 16 - 18 Martin St, Thornbury. All current members as well as those who are interested in becoming a part of NAT are invited to attend the meeting. Official notices will be sent out to members closer to the AGM Now it’s accesstv.net ! Northern Access Television’s future Video Portal has had a name change! The portal will now be known as “accesstv.net”. The website is currently under construction, and when completed, we will hopefully be able to promote the address on NAT programs “on air”. The new name is a more generic name for the site than the previous “natter.video”. The name was chosen in the hope that other TV groups might also join with us on the video portal. Producers for NAT should start thinking about what content they want on the portal, and let Michael know as soon as possible. We will then arrange to link to the content. 24 Production News 255 A bit quiet just at the moment, but potential for the next three years. Like a lot of other Production Groups, the uncertainty over whether Community TV would continue stopped a lot of production, and planning of new productions. However, we stay on the air courtesy of David McLauchlan’s “Spirit of Life” and Takis Manetas’ “Zontas 100%”. “Chronicles X” is on it’s way, and other possibilities include the possibility of a new General Interest program, and further episodes of “Harmony In Diversity”. The development of the “River TV” project in Echuca may also see some specials produced for the station in future. Further episodes of “Kultur Shok” will also be in the pipeline from Omar Pervaiz. As I said this time last year, it is up to all of us to best use the extended time available “on the air”, and help our viewers prepare for when they need to access our programs online in the future. NAT Pens Available We now have a supply of promotional pens, with the Northern Access Television logo and website. Thank you to “PensOnly.com.au” for the printing work on the pens. Supplies of the pens are with David McLauchlan, Paul Spanos (at Thornbury Community Church), and with Michael Costello in Echuca. Please enquire with these people if you would like some of the new pens, while stocks of them last! You can also collect some at the Annual General Meeting. Read “NAT Matters” online! http://www.nat.org.au/newsletter or search “NAT Matters” on the issuu.com website and app. 6 Spirit of Life Despite having to put on repeats for a number of months over the COVID lockdown periods, Spirit of Life is going strong and with the continuation of C31 for the next 3 years it will continue for the foreseeable future in the same studio shot half hour format. Recently I have started uploading the latest episodes to its you tube channel www.youtube.com/user/SpiritOfLifeTV) in HD 1080p format, previous episodes are in SD, as broadcast. On the channel are separate playlists of the episodes done by my two current hosts, Mirella Rich and Geraldine Lee, who each do two programs out of every four week period, with Mirella focusing mostly on the Messages of Mary from Medjugorje and Geraldine more general mainly charismatic focused interviews. Also on the channel is a playlist of of older episodes with Lucia Pace as interviewer. Love Dialogues Over the last seven months I have been working with Norm Currie, my interviewer for Harmony in Diversity, on a series of Web programs titled "Maroondah Love Dialogues", produced with the aid of a grant from the Maroondah City Council. As well as an interview on the topics of Love, Hope, Forgiveness, Gratitude, and Trust each Love Dialogue program includes a guided meditation based on the content of the interview by Frances Cassidy. They were released via a Facebook page and a You Tube channel as well as a dedicated page on the web site of the Maroondah Interfaith Network, (www.maroondahinterfaith.org.au) Norm is also developing a web site for the ongoing Love Dialogues concept (www.lovedialogues.com.au) The following description is from the Love Dialogues Website: "What are Love Dialogues? - A Love Dialogue is a practice which engages in both internal and external discourse with the aspiration that every thought, word and action might reflect unconditional Love, through deep listening the other person is heard heart to heart, without judgment, classification or diagnosis." Going forward With the continuation of C31 for at least the next 3 years Norm and I intend 7 to develop Love Dialogues to include an ongoing program on C31, possibly combining it in some form with a continuation of Harmony in Diversity. Recently I have been helping a young rapper, Harrison Thorpe "Kawaja" produce a music video titled "Respect" that is available on his You Tube channel (www.youtube.com/channel/UCpG1J-cs373vTBxo_dkDbbw) along with a half hour interview I did with him in the studio which I use to record Spirit of Life and Harmony in Diversity. This has got me interested in doing interviews myself again, and in possibly doing a regular general interest and arts and music type program that could combine elements of my past programs like Red Lobster Poetry and NAT Chat and Et Cetera (which was a magazine style program me and Michael did 20 years ago). Particularly I am interested in doing more programs like the one-off program about the Spring Hills Stallions Football Club I did a few years ago, focusing on community groups and clubs. These are just ideas at this stage, and they would be something I would like to collaborate with others on. 8 CHRONICLES X: Golden Plains Shire Coming Soon (Network TBC) Elly (Elysia Janssen), who is a gied actor and works in theatre and film, has been fascinated by bizarre and mysterious stories she has heard from a young age. Not content to accept the stories as just folklore she decides to create a PAGE 8 podcast ' Chronicles X' and sets out on a journey to invesgate the truth behind the stories. In her journey she comes across the ‘Paranormal GodfatherReserved’ (Gary Sullivan) and for the ‘ TravellingFuture Medium Content’ (Anthony Kilner) who share a common desire to explore the unknown. The Paranormal Godfather is no stranger to mysteries (especially of the supernatural kind). For over 40 years he has invesgated some of the most haunted locaons in Australia and can tell you stories that will make the hair on your arms stand on end. He was also the lead invesgator in the TV show ‘Haunted Australia’. The Travelling Medium on the other hand is a mechanic and published author with a love for travelling and RV's.