Peter McArthur and Eastern Regional Access Television (ERA-TV) were instrumental in getting parliamentary support for Channel 31 to move from Analogue to Digital in 2014.
As well as being the Producer of Eastern Newsbeat in the past, McArthur is also a member and secretary of one of the original community groups Eastern Regional Access Television INC,[3] and he helped establish Channel 31 Melbourne and Geelong as a community televisions station in 1994.
The series "A House Around the Corner", produced and directed by Tricia Ziemer, which features Learn Local Centres across Australia.
The third season was called "A Green House Around the Corner" [4] shown in 2015 and featured Learn Local Centres across Australia who remodeled to add sustainability features, such as Solar Power, to decrease their running costs and their carbon footprint so they could maintain low training fees for their students.
The other series that ERA-TV auspice, Produced and Directed by Tricia Ziemer, is called "Kidz in the Kitchen" with Gabriel Gate', the French-Australian Chef.