Broadcast Australia
Broadcast Australia was the seed asset in the publicly listed Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group (MCIG) fund.
History
Macquarie Bank Ltd completed its acquisition of National Transmission Authority in 2002 and re-branded it as Broadcast Australia.
The MCIG fund, including Broadcast Australia, was subsequently acquired by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) in 2009.[1]
Operations and acquisitions
Broadcast Australia has funded a number of initiatives, for example:
- Transit Wireless, a telecommunications specializing in distributed antenna system networks to provide coverage in the places that are unreachable by traditional cellular phone services[2]
- Broadcast Australia are under contract to maintain the digital radio infrastructure for all Brisbane radio stations
- Digital transmission service provider for Television Sydney
- Transmission services for SBS Radio
- A three-year trial in Sydney of a datacasting service using the DVB-T system for use in Australia, Digital Forty Four
- Transmission services for 2Day FM
Broadcast facilities
- Mount Sugarloaf - second transmission tower
- Sandy Creek Road, Muswellbrook
- Mount Wellington - transmission tower one
- Gore Hill
See also
References
- ↑ corporate profile on www.broadcastaustralia.com.au
- ↑ Bensinger, Greg (30 July 2010). "New York City Subway Platforms to Go Wireless in Revived Accord". Bloomberg. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
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