One very good reason is that if education does not get the channel someone else will. We maintain that as far as the people of Australia are concerned, no other contender will be as useful and important. More specifically an educational television station would prove an enormously useful agency in off- campus and continuing education. The Federal Government is committed to providing forty thousand new places in tertiary education over the next few years. It has also emphasised the importance of equal opportunity in education.
Television is an extremely cost-effective way of delivering course material.
It is also very equitable. Anyone within range of the transmitter can watch. There is a third reason. Even if, hypothetically, the channel resulted in no actual education at all - it would still have a use. Picture if you will.