Funded by the Government of Western Australia, the channel was managed and operated by the Department of Regional Development and broadcast a range of community-based content, particularly training and educational programs, using an open-narrowcast licence.

Some bodies that used Westlink were; The now defunct community television channel Access 31 from Perth was once simulcast on weekends.

[4] The agreement ceased on 18 April 2013, when ICTV officially launched their own dedicated channel on the VAST service.

[5] The channel was previously available on the Optus Aurora satellite service, but was migrated to VAST in April 2013.

The Goldfields-Esperance region had the most viewers, with approximately 6.1% out of a total 11.8% satellite households report viewing the service.