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Digital Forty Four
Launched	March 17, 2004
Owned by	Broadcast Australia
Country	Australia
Broadcast area	Sydney
Website	digitalfortyfour.com.au
Availability
Terrestrial
SD Digital	Digital multiplex on UHF 35

Free-to-air television guide

Digital Forty Four is a trial datacasting service which was licensed by the Australian Broadcasting Authority (now the Australian Communications and Media Authority) in March 2004 to run for 3 years until late 2007. It is the worlds first Digital Terrestrial TV service dedicated to datacasting. The service officially launched on March 17, 2004. The service will be extended nationally in 2008 when the Federal Government and the broadcasting regulator ACMA are due to license a full national commercial service. The service is likely to introduce new channels when the license is issued, depending who receives it.

Digital Forty Four is currently only broadcasted in Sydney, where it carries a number of channels within a single 7 MHz multiplex.

It provides a television guide for Digital Television (DVB), a community service channel that provides information on the condition of the Roads, Weather and Surf, with live broadcasts every fifteen minutes. It also provides the Australian Christian Channel (ACC), a channel previously only available on Pay TV and a free-to-air shopping channel, that works, only very repeditively. It also provides viewers with live broadcasts of the meetings of Parliament in the House of Representatives (with audio), the Senate(with audio), the House of Represntatives Common room (without audio) and Committee Rooms 1 through 4(without audio).

• Channel 4 - Free-to-air television guide
• Channel 45 - Channel NSW
• Channel 46 - Australian Christian Channel
• Channel 49 - Expo Shopping Network
• Channel 401 - House of Representatives
• Channel 402 - Senate
• Channel 403 - House of Representatives Main Committee Room
• Channel 404 - Committee Room 1
• Channel 405 - Committee Room 2
• Channel 406 - Committee Room 3
• Channel 407 - Committee Room 4

• TVSN Shopping Network
• NITV Indigenous Television

• Channel 47 - Macquarie Digital - ended June 11 2007
• Channel 48 - TAB Channel - ended February 2005

• Datacasting
• Television broadcasting in Australia

• Official Site
• Broadcast Australia
• Australian Christian Channel
• Channel NSW
• Expo Channel
• Macquarie Digital