95-527: WIN Television is an Australian television network owned and operated by WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong , New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single television station covering the Wollongong region. The WIN Network has since grown to cover much of regional Australia. The network's name, WIN , originates from its first station, Wollongong's WIN-4 . WIN has
190-513: A "coming soon" test pattern on channels 85 and 86 on 10 February 2016. Both channels began broadcasting on 1 March 2016. As a result, their channel listing was reshuffled to match Nine's metropolitan with 9Gem on channel 82, 9Go! on channel 83, 9Life on channel 84, Extra on channel 85, and Gold on channel 86. The network continued to produce its own local news service, WIN News , for most of its markets throughout its Nine affiliation, although requests for increased revenue by Nine repeatedly threatened
285-555: A broad range of original regional programming, including the children's program Doopa's Club featuring the station mascot Doopa Dog ; as well as community service strand GWN7 InfoNet , a series of short updates listing local community events. GWN7 Local News (now Seven News Regional WA , previously known as Golden West News or GWN News ) was the network's regional news service. Its main 30-minute program, airing live at 5:30pm on weeknights before Seven News Perth , dealt primarily with local news and current affairs. The bulletin
380-745: A combined program guide for the free-to-air broadcasters, named Channel 4 ; a news, sport, and weather datacast channel provided by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ; a government and public information channel, known as Channel NSW , which included real time traffic information and surf webcams; the Australian Christian Channel; the Expo Channel ; and various federal parliamentary audio broadcasts. Today, datacasting consists of information based channels that are broadcast as subchannels of
475-483: A deal was secured on 28 March 2017 for the sole sale of NRN to WIN for $ 55 million. The sale took effect on 31 May 2017; NRN was rebranded as WIN on 1 September 2017, with playout and transmission transferred to WIN, while the LCNs were reshuffled to align with WIN's other stations, although they stayed as 5-numbered due to 8-numbering already held by Nine-owned NBN Television for Northern NSW. On 28 May 2018, WIN announced
570-720: A digital shared channel began on 2 May 2011. SBS Television is a division of the Special Broadcasting Service , founded to provide for the estimated 20% of Australians that speak a language other than English in the home, aiming to complement the ABC . In recent years SBS TV has begun to target a broader cross-section of the Australian community, in part because of the emergence of specialty subscription television channels aimed at such minorities. In addition to its free-to-air channels, SBS also has an interest in
665-887: A direct feed from Nine, excluding WIN News. The only local programming broadcast by the WIN Network as of 2023 consists of half-hour local WIN News bulletins for its Nine stations in Regional Queensland, Southern New South Wales, Griffith, Regional Victoria, and Tasmania, as well as short news updates for its Ten station in northern New South Wales. WIN News is the network's local news service. Fourteen regional bulletins and news updates are presented from studios in Wollongong , with reporters and camera crews based in district newsrooms. In most markets, WIN News may compete with Seven News or Nightly News . WIN has produced independent news reports and bulletins since 1962 for its original Wollongong station. As well as
760-484: A facility operated by Australia's telco provider Telstra (shared with hybrid-funded broadcaster SBS Television ). On 1 November 2021, Seven West Media announced that it would acquire all the shares and subsidiaries of Prime Media Group. This was SWM's second attempt at purchasing Prime Media, after its previous attempt in 2019 was thwarted by Australian Community Media boss Antony Catalano and rival WIN Corporation owner Bruce Gordon , citing Seven's debt problems at
855-416: A geographically large portion of regional and remote Australia through owned-and-operated stations including RTQ Queensland, NRN Northern New South Wales, WIN Southern New South Wales & ACT, VTV Victoria, TVT Tasmania, MTN Griffith, STV Mildura, SES Mount Gambier, RTS Riverland, and WOW Western Australia. WIN's high-definition channel, WIN HD , originally launched on 17 March 2008 as
950-478: A mixture of Seven and existing WIN programming, commencing on 1 October 2007. WIN also started producing some local Australian programmes to replace key Nine content, including Alive and Cooking and Susie , as well as the independently sourced The Ellen DeGeneres Show . WIN also produced Fishing Australia as part of its local content output on the WIN Network. Two years later, WIN officially reinstated its supply of Nine content to regional South Australia with
1045-406: A network in 1986, with a shared logo produced and used across the regional stations, featuring the letters GWN inside an outlined oval surrounded by an orbiting ring. This logo was used across the network until 1995, when a new logo was introduced with the removal of outlined oval surrounding the letters GWN . Following this, 2001 saw the launch of a new simplified yellow logo, with the removal of
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#17327730794951140-514: A new programme supply agreement with the Australian News Channel to carry Sky News Australia content on a new free-to-air channel, Sky News on WIN , which launched on 2 September 2018. The channel consisted of mixed Sky News and Fox Sports News programming, along with WIN's All Australian News, while Sky programmes gained access to WIN's regional news stories. WIN converted TVSN to MPEG-4 SD on 30 August 2018, two days before
1235-574: A new supplementary channel, WIN SA, relaying NWS from Adelaide. On 9 August 2009, WIN began transmission of the new digital channel GO! on channel 88 in Southern NSW, Regional Victoria, Tasmania, and Regional Queensland. It soon reached Mildura in 2010 and regional SA in 2011. In June 2010, playout was moved from WIN's Wollongong headquarters to its new Media Hub facility in the south-west Sydney suburb of Ingleburn , co-owned with ABC Television . On 26 September 2010, WIN began transmission of
1330-523: A new, nationwide indigenous television network. Although no major political party championed this cause, commercial broadcaster Imparja Television stated in 2004 that it would run such a network, at least within its own licence area. In 2005 the federal Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts considered funding such a station, and conducted a review process. On 13 July 2007 NITV launched, replacing Indigenous Community Television on
1425-616: A number of specialised market segments; including Spanish, Greek , and Italian . As of January 2011, the service is no longer available. There are two small region-based subscription television providers; TransTV Digital which is available in Canberra ; and Neighbourhood Cable based in Ballarat , and also available in Geelong & Mildura . There are also a number of satellite services that target specific language speaking groups,
1520-853: A programme supply agreement with metropolitan broadcaster Nine Network , covering its stations in Regional Queensland , Southern and Western New South Wales , Griffith , Regional Victoria , Mildura , Tasmania , Eastern South Australia , and Regional Western Australia . WIN also has a programme supply agreement with third-placed metropolitan broadcaster Network 10 for its Northern New South Wales station. WIN also produces and broadcasts weeknight half-hour local news bulletins across its Queensland, southern New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania markets as WIN News . Through its many television broadcast licences, WIN re-broadcasts metropolitan network content into regional Australian markets, as follows: Television Wollongong Transmission Limited (TWT)
1615-467: A result, the network soon ended its programming deal with Nine for exclusive broadcast of its shows in regional areas of the state. Prime Television purchased GWN in November 1996 from Stokes for A$ 71 million. Remote Western Australia was one of the few areas of regional Australia that was not aggregated, given its small population. This ended in 1997, when WIN Television was granted the rights to
1710-611: A second television license in regional Western Australia, ending GWN's monopoly of all three Australian commercial channels. In March 1999, GWN opted to become a sole Seven Network affiliate, in-line with its eastern sister, Prime Television. As a result, WIN Television WA picked up both the Nine Network and Network 10 affiliations. The network's transmission operations were moved from Bunbury to Prime Media Group 's digital broadcast facility in Canberra in April 2005. Programming
1805-494: A sister to the Nine Network's rebranded high-definition simulcast, 9HD . WIN HD broadcast in 1080i high definition and was available on WIN's regional stations, RTQ Queensland, WIN Southern New South Wales and ACT, VTV Victoria, and TVT Tasmania. The channel broadcast breakaway programming from launch until 3 August 2009, when it was turned into a straight HD simulcast. WIN HD fully ceased broadcasting on 26 September 2010 with
1900-595: A test transmission in Sydney using one of the reserved digital spectrum positions. Australian broadcast infrastructure company Broadcast Australia undertook the three-year trial using the DVB-T system. The trial consisted of a number of services on one standard 7 MHz multiplex , collectively known as Digital Forty Four . The service was extended past the three-year period, but ended in March 2010 The services included;
1995-483: A third licence to the same company that owned the other two licences. There are three main metropolitan networks, the Seven Network , Nine Network and Network 10 . Although primarily targeted at metropolitan areas, these names are also used in some regional areas (others choose to run the same programming as these stations, but use independent names). Seven Network Nine Network Network 10 Although
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#17327730794952090-542: A variety of local and national news, current affairs, and sports coverage, as well as Australian arts and comedy programming. It is well known for broadcasting British programming, primarily from the BBC , ITV , and Channel 4 . ABC Family , established as a second digital-only channel called ABC2 on 7 March 2005. Originally aimed at providing 'more choice, more often', the channel mainly provided repeats of popular ABC productions, such as Australian Story and Stateline , and
2185-602: Is a table showing the logical channel numbers (LCN) for the full suite of digital services. Digital terrestrial transmissions were available in all populated cities and major towns of regional Western Australia. Analog terrestrial services ceased transmission statewide on 25 June 2013. Digital satellite transmissions were available direct-to-home on the Viewer Access Satellite Television platform in areas that were not covered by adequate terrestrial transmissions. The Golden West Network became
2280-518: Is an affiliate of Network 10 in Griffith, Northern New South Wales , and eastern South Australia . WIN Television has always produced regional programming, including the flagship local news service WIN News , that supplements programmes sourced from affiliates. Since its inception, the network has produced and broadcast notable programmes, including Sportsview and Sportsworld , a review of international, national, and local sporting events. From
2375-556: Is present only in the form of local news bulletin or local advertising. The amount of local news provided varies from two-minute updates to full-hour, seven nights a week news bulletins. Commercial stations in metropolitan markets (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth), in addition to some regional markets, are owned and operated by their respective network instead of an affiliate operator. However, commercial stations in most regional and remote areas are instead operated by broadcasters with unique licences and commercial agreements with
2470-786: Is unclear if the network makes changes to its regional WA news production, since Seven West Media's headquarters are located in Perth's suburb of Osborne Park (where Seven O&O TVW produces news content for the city and the state of WA). In July 2022, the GWN7 Local News branding has been retired and now falls under the Seven News Regional WA brand. GWN7 was available statewide in digital terrestrial and digital satellite format. The full suite of digital services, including 7TWO, 7mate, ishop TV and RACING.COM, were available in all areas with digital transmissions. Below
2565-495: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation , the Special Broadcasting Service , and, as more recently, National Indigenous Television . ABC Television is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation , established in 1956. ABC TV , ABC Family , ABC Entertains and ABC News are available nationally, in addition to ABC Australia (Southeast Asian TV channel) , focused at the Asia Pacific region. ABC TV carries
2660-629: The Broadcasting Services Act , the network was able to introduce, in partnership with other stations, additional digital-only Network Ten affiliates. These included Tasmania's TDT , launched in late 2003 in partnership with Southern Cross Broadcasting , and Mildura's MDV in January 2006, with Prime Television . On 30 May 2007, WIN purchased NWS from Southern Cross Broadcasting for A$ 105 million. Similarly, STW Perth , owned by Sunraysia Television and affiliated with
2755-854: The Cocos (Keeling) Islands via satellite as part of the Remote Commercial Television License (RCTS) scheme. GWN was granted the Remote Commercial Television License (RCTS) in June 1985 and the service went to air on 18 October 1986 using the call-sign WAW . Not long after, GWN continued to expand within Western Australia, acquiring Mid-Western Television (owner of VEW-8 Kalgoorlie) in December 1985 for A$ 7 million, and Geraldton Telecasters (owner of GTW-11) in March 1987 for an undisclosed amount. The takeovers gave
2850-688: The Gold Coast , the Central Coast and all of Western Australia until mid-2012 when Foxtel/ Austar merged hence Foxtel gaining the Austar coverage areas. Optus Television operates only in the small parts of Sydney , Melbourne , Brisbane and Adelaide where it has laid cable. SelecTV was the fourth provider of subscription television controlled by WIN Corporation . SelecTV was available throughout Australia via satellite and focused on providing content in comparatively low priced packages to
2945-463: The Hawke Labor government introduced a system known as aggregation – regional television equalisation – which would provide viewers with the same viewing choices as those in the metropolitan cities. Consequently, the regional stations and networks continued to merge and expand, and became affiliated with one of the three metropolitan networks. Further equalisation later occurred in the 2000s – with
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3040-613: The Nine Network enabled it to clinch the Nine Network affiliation away from QTV , which was then forced to affiliate with third-placed Network Ten with just days to go. ENT Limited , a Launceston -based company that owned a number of television and radio stations in regional Victoria and Tasmania , was taken over by WIN in 1994. Television Victoria and TasTV were, as a result, rebranded as WIN Television. The network further expanded to Griffith in 1998, when WIN purchased MTN-9 Griffith and its supplementary station AMN-31 from its local owners. As MTN had been affiliated with WIN since
3135-476: The Nine Network , was purchased on 8 June 2007 for A$ 163.1 million. Despite the station's ownership of Nine Perth, the regional WIN WA service continued to broadcast Ten News Perth , produced for and shown on rival Perth station Ten Perth , until 27 August 2007, when Ten West came into service. A conflict between WIN and its long-time metropolitan partner, the Nine Network, arose in mid-2007, with PBL Media , Nine's parent company, requesting 40 percent of
3230-494: The Optus Aurora remote satellite service. On 12 December 2012 NITV was launched on free to air on which was the 4th digital channel of SBS, making this channel available to all Australians wherever SBS digital television is broadcast. In order to allow for commercial licensing, the country was divided into a number of licence areas. When these were drawn up in the 1950s, each major city or regional area – about 50 in all –
3325-596: The Viewer Access Satellite Television platform. On 12 February 2018, GWN7's master control facilities (transmission and technical operations) were transferred to Prime Media's national playout centre in Canberra, with the WA facilities beamed through satellite and microwave links. Playout of GWN7's programming was later transferred to Mediahub located at Sydney's suburb of Ingleburn (which houses playout for ABC Television and WIN Television ), before once again transferred to
3420-550: The Viewer Access Satellite Television service. WIN News bulletins are carried on the VAST service to allow viewers in remote areas of Central and Eastern Australia, as well as terrestrial reception blackspots, to obtain news local to their area. Subscription cable is also provided by TransACT in the Australian Capital Territory and Neighbourhood Cable in Ballarat and Mildura . WIN broadcasts to
3515-605: The World Movies Channel which has since been revived on free-to-air TV as SBS World Movies and it relaunched on the 1st of July 2019. SBS shows many non-English language films with English subtitles, and each morning shows news bulletins in foreign languages from around the world in its WorldWatch timeslot. In addition to this, a great deal of programming from the PBS , Arte , BBC and CBC , and even Comedy Central are shown. Acquired entertainment programs include
3610-551: The 23rd of May of 2022. National Indigenous Television , funded by the Commonwealth of Australia , is produced in Sydney and broadcast via Imparja Television 's existing satellite capacity. The idea for a national, indigenous television service was initially conceived by the National Indigenous Radio Service (the peak Indigenous radio group), which initially lobbied the government to start
3705-685: The ACT, and regional areas in Victoria and Queensland switch to Nine affiliation at midnight on 1 July 2016. With that announcement, WIN was effectively stripped of its 27-year partnership with Nine. In response, WIN entered affiliation talks with Network Ten , in which Gordon held a significant stake, reaching a final agreement on 23 May 2016. From 1 July 2016, WIN carried Ten programming into its regional Queensland, Southern NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia markets. Supplementary station deals were left until late due to disagreement over
3800-740: The Broadcasting Services Act, allowing the network to launch a WIN Ten service using the MGS call sign in Mount Gambier and LRS in the Riverland. This enabled the main SES/RTS station to be a sole Nine Network affiliate, which lasted until 2007, when a supply agreement was made with Seven. As well as the flagship weeknightly WIN News bulletin, WIN has been prolific in broadcasting relevant programmes for its audience. In
3895-1252: The Federal Government's Digital Switchover Taskforce Industry Advisory Group. In addition to these, a number of community groups produce programming in regional areas, including Queanbeyan Canberra Television (QCTV) in Canberra , Hunter Community Television in Newcastle , Illawarra Community Television (ICTV) in Wollongong and WARP Television in Bathurst . Groups in a number of areas including Ballarat and Victor Harbor have unsuccessfully applied for licences. Aurora Community Television , Australian Multicultural Television, Ballarat Community Cable Television, Channel Vision (Canberra) and Satellite Community TV, although not licensed as community stations, provide similar services. Community Television stations went digital in 2010. However, in September 2014 Australian federal communications minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that licensing for community television stations would end in December 2015. In September 2015, Turnbull, now Prime Minister, announced an extension of
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3990-476: The GWN7 name. On 25 July 2022, the GWN7 brand was retired. Since becoming a full Seven affiliate, GWN7's on-air schedule had become almost identical to that of its metropolitan counterpart, TVW in Perth. Seven News Perth was aired live across the network direct from Perth. GWN7 also produced a weeknightly local news service, GWN7 Local News , shown live at 5:30pm. Since the network's inception, it has featured
4085-488: The HD digital channel GEM on channel 80 in Southern NSW, Regional Victoria, Tasmania, and Regional Queensland. On 1 May 2012, WIN began transmission of an SD digital infomercial channel, Gold , on channel 84. The second infomercial channel, Gold2 , began on 13 July 2013 as a five-hour timeshift of Gold. Following Nine's launch of 9HD and 9Life on 26 November 2015 and WIN's promise of following suit, WIN began broadcasting
4180-805: The US animated series South Park , Queer as Folk and Inspector Rex . In addition to news and current affairs programming such as SBS World News and Dateline , the network also commissions locally produced documentaries, movies and comedy programs. Less-popular mainstream sports such as soccer, cycling and athletics are also shown. SBS currently broadcasts six channels: SBS , known as 'SBS One' between 2009 and 2015, SBS Viceland , known as SBS Two between 2009 and 2016, SBS World Movies , SBS Food , known as Food Network Australia between 2015 and 2018, NITV , also known as National indigenous Television (see #National Indigenous Television and more info about this channel in that section), and SBS WorldWatch launched on
4275-624: The WIN Network's stations, it relays sports coverage broadcast from Nine's Wide World of Sports . On WIN's Northern New South Wales 10 station and other 10 stations in Griffith, Mildura, Regional WA, and Eastern SA owned by WIN and affiliated with 10, it relays sports coverage provided by 10 Sport . The Seven stations in Griffith, Mount Gambier, and the Riverland carry Seven Sport sports coverage. WIN Television's transmissions are available from both free-to-air terrestrial transmitters in major regional centres and free-to-view satellite transmissions across regional and remote Western Australia on
4370-736: The West Australian Community Broadcasting Association was appointed to manage access to the sixth channel in Perth and Mandurah on behalf of groups based in the two cities. Licences were also granted in 1996 to Hobart Access Community Television Inc in Hobart and Bendigo Community Television Inc in Bendigo however these were not renewed. Similarly, a licence for BushVision in Mount Gambier
4465-492: The advent of digital television – to areas that escaped initial aggregation. Today, WIN Television , Imparja Television and Southern Cross Austereo notably remain independent, whereas broadcasters like Prime Television , the Golden West Network , Sunshine Television and NBN Television have been absorbed by the metropolitan networks over the years. As with some of the metropolitan stations, local content
4560-547: The case on 28 April 2016, ruling that the definition of "broadcasting" in WIN's affiliation agreement with the Nine Network did not cover internet streaming "and that Nine is under no express or implied obligation not to do it". Shortly after WIN's legal defeat, Nine announced a new $ 500 million, five-year programme supply agreement with Southern Cross Austereo , the Ten affiliate. This saw Southern Cross Austereo's stations in Southern NSW,
4655-655: The channel's programme schedule changed in line with WIN. The channel ceased on 30 June 2021 with WIN's new programme supply agreement with Nine. WIN now re-broadcasts Nine HD across its Nine stations and 10 HD across Northern New South Wales. Australian television broadcasting Television broadcasting in Australia began officially on 16 September 1956, with the opening of TCN-9 , quickly followed by national and commercial stations in Sydney and Melbourne, all these being in 625-line black and white . The commencement date
4750-665: The country, incumbent GWN has remained the market's most-watched station. The second ratings survey of 2006 placed WIN Television with a 34.7% commercial audience share in prime-time, compared to the Golden West Network with 65.3%. Also in 1999, WIN purchased two stations in South Australia: SES-8 in Mount Gambier and RTS-5a in the Riverland region. They became known as WIN SA . In 2002, supplementary licences were granted under Section 38A of
4845-457: The deadline to 31 December 2016. The deadline was further extended incrementally by communications minister Mitch Fifield until June 2021, however by 2015 Sydney's Television Sydney had ceased broadcasting, as had Brisbane's 31 Digital , switching to a short-live online streaming service. As of January 2021, the only remaining community television stations in Australia still broadcasting are Melbourne's C31 and Adelaide's Channel 44 . Two of
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#17327730794954940-479: The early 1990s, the station was easily integrated into the network. WIN became regional Western Australia's second commercial television network on 26 March 1999 after winning the rights tender in 1997. Prior to the launch of the new station, GWN held a commercial monopoly on the market. GWN became an affiliate of the Seven Network , while WIN took a combination of Nine Network and Network Ten programming. Despite Nine's traditional ratings dominance throughout most of
5035-487: The exception of Tasmania and Remote & Central Australia, which got two licences. As some markets were formed by the merger of up to six different individual markets, this meant that some stations had to merge or form partnerships in order to remain competitive. Around the same time, many remote market regions were replaced with two satellite market regions – one for regional Western Australia , and one for remote central and eastern Australia – although each of these regions
5130-472: The existing commercial broadcasters. As of mid 2013, these broadcast mainly infomercials. Examples include TVSN and 4ME . GWN7 GWN7 was an Australian television network serving all of Western Australia outside metropolitan Perth . It launched on 10 March 1967 as BTW-3 in Bunbury . It was an affiliate of the Seven Network and served one of the largest geographic television markets in
5225-536: The few areas of Australia without local television; the only television outlets in the area were relays of ABC Television out of Perth . Jack Bendat purchased South West Telecasters (owner of BTW/GSW) in 1979, and changed the company's name to Golden West Network. GWN applied to broadcast an additional service on 31 October 1984, when the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal called for applications to broadcast to Christmas Island and
5320-467: The first week of transmissions, the children's television series The Channel 4 Club was produced, with the children's television programme Stopwatch beginning in 1979. The English-language educational programme You Say the Word began in 1971, catering to non-English-speaking immigrants. The long-running entertainment programme Variety Italian Style premiered in 1974, with Malcom Elliott initially hosting
5415-508: The flagship nightly bulletin, WIN Television has in the past produced current affairs programming, including the community affairs programme Roving Eye , and Sunday Review , a weekly review of international, national, and local stories. WIN also broadcast WIN's All Australian News at 7 a.m. weekdays and weeknights at late nights, which featured highlights from news bulletins from its regional stations that ceased in June 2021 due to Nine's new affiliation agreement with WIN. On most of
5510-503: The introduction of digital television, with the Central Wheatbelt , Kalgoorlie , Karratha and Mingenew digital transmitters launching on 10 June 2010. The broadcasters shared a single digital transmitter for GWN, WIN WA and the new Ten West in standard definition. On 15 January 2011, Prime Media Group reported that GWN and Prime were to rebrand to GWN7 and Prime7 respectively, in connection to their strong relations with
5605-455: The largest being UBI World TV , a non-English language service. Globecast TV and Pan Global TV are non-English language, Christian and sport channel platforms that are controlled by Globecast . Various operators run their own subscription services on these platforms. In addition, there are other satellite subscription services available through other providers. National IPTV operators include TPG IPTV . Datacasting in Australia began as
5700-580: The last five years, the opportunities presented by the WIN Network to both extend the reach of Nine's premium content into more regional markets under one agreement and to work cooperatively with them on a national and local news operation mean this is the right time for us to return to WIN". Also for the first time, WIN now broadcasts Nine content under Nine branding. WIN's multi-channels have again been rearranged, with 9Gem on channel 81, 9Go! on channel 82, and 9Life on channel 83, while TVSN and Gold would continue to broadcast on channels 84 and 85, but despite
5795-591: The launch of Sky News on WIN . On 31 October 2018, at 6:30 p.m., during The Project , WIN updated its logo, launching at the same time as the launch of Network 10's new logo. WIN also rebranded its versions of 10's multi-channels, One and Eleven, into WIN Boss (later changed to WIN Bold in December) and WIN Peach . On 29 March 2021, the WIN channel in the Illawarra region was converted to MPEG-4 HD as an experiment for other WIN areas. On 14 May 2021, it
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#17327730794955890-571: The launch of the HD multi-channel GEM (now 9Gem). On 10 February 2016, WIN announced that it would launch its own HD simulcast in the coming months in response to Nine Network relaunching 9HD as its second high-definition channel. WIN HD re-launched on 1 March 2016. Four WIN regions were excluded from the 1 March launch date, although in four regions the launch was delayed: Griffith , Mildura , Eastern South Australia (2 March due to technical issues), and Regional Western Australia (10 March). On 1 July 2016, with WIN's new programme supply agreement,
5985-415: The metropolitan market networks. Some regional markets have one operator holding a monopoly over all three networks, with one "digital only" supplementary station of the three operating under a supplementary licence. Other regional markets have only two operators, each affiliated with their own networks. Consequently, these two operators have formed a supplementary "digital only" joint venture to broadcast
6080-503: The metropolitan stations of the Seven Network. Their news bulletins were quickly renamed as GWN7 News and Prime7 News . These bulletins were relaunched on 16 January 2011 at 5:57pm. Digital transmitter upgrades continued on 28 July 2011, with Bunbury and surrounds being introduced to the full suite of digital channels for the first time, including 7two and 7mate . On 30 July 2011, the regional networks began broadcasting on
6175-430: The names of the metropolitan stations remain the same across cities, their ownership varies (see below). The population of Australians living outside of metropolitan areas are served by a number of regional television networks that are affiliated with a metropolitan counterpart. Before the 1980s, regional stations were mostly independent with some forming loose partnerships and others merging into local networks. However,
6270-447: The network a monopoly over all commercial television services in regional Western Australia. In 1987, Bendat and Kerry Stokes merged their media interests into joint company BDC Investments. Later that year, Northern Star Holdings purchased BDC for A$ 206 million. Northern Star were forced to sell GWN to satisfy existing media regulations. GWN was sold back to Stokes in December 1988 for A$ 54 million, who upgraded equipment throughout
6365-414: The network independently. On 16 August 2007, WIN Television dropped key Nine Network programmes from its daytime television schedule, including Mornings with Kerri-Anne and National Nine News: Morning Edition . WIN also secured a new programme supply agreement for its regional South Australian station with Nine's rival Seven Network . Announced on 4 September 2007, the new programme schedule included
6460-530: The network with two additional competitors, The Prime Network and Capital Television . In 1990, WIN purchased Queensland station Star TV, with stations in Rockhampton ( RTQ ) and the Darling Downs (DDQ and SDQ), just weeks before aggregation was to occur in regional Queensland. The station had already been set to become a Network 10 affiliate under its previous owners; however, WIN's links with
6555-498: The network's advertising revenue in return for programme supply. WIN's owner, WIN Corporation , rejected this offer, expecting to pay only 29% (a 3% decrease from the previous contract and in line with many of the network's competitors, such as Prime Television and Southern Cross Ten ). The network's owner, Bruce Gordon, subsequently threatened to sever the network's affiliation after negotiations stagnated, stating that his previous position at Paramount Pictures meant he could programme
6650-490: The network. In April 1990, the callsigns BTW and GSW were merged, to become SSW . During the late 1980s, GWN was promoted as GWN Satellite Television and aired programs from mostly the Nine Network plus a few from Seven and Ten with STW's Channel Nine (later National Nine) News (from Perth) providing the national news link. Kerry Stokes gained control of the Seven Network in 1995, and attempted to sell GWN to Seven in return for more shares. Seven Network shareholders agreed to
6745-467: The news division's viability. By 2016, only twelve bulletins were being produced and presented. After Nine launched its new online catch-up video on demand and live streaming service 9Now on 27 January 2016, WIN filed a lawsuit against Nine, claiming that live streaming into regional areas breached their exclusive affiliation agreement. Justice Hammerschlag of the NSW Supreme Court dismissed
6840-454: The only commercial network affiliate not carrying full metro network branding across promotions and programming, in contrast to WOW's owner WIN which carries the Nine Network branding full-time since its return to carrying Nine's programming in 2021. On 23 May 2022, Seven West Media announced that the current branding of GWN7 will be unified into Seven Network branding across the station including for GWN7 Local News officially remains as retiring
6935-615: The past, it produced current affairs programming, including the community affairs programme Roving Eye , and Sunday Review , a weekly review of international, national, and local stories. It produced a mid-week rugby league wrap panel show in the mid-1990s, while in 1995, WIN Television Queensland produced its own rugby league coverage by televising games featuring the fledgeling North Queensland Cowboys in their maiden ARL Winfield Cup competition season. WIN Television began to introduce digital television soon after it became available to metropolitan areas in January 2001. Under Section 38A of
7030-705: The purchase of stations in Victoria , Queensland , and New South Wales . In 1984, WIN became the first regional television station to transmit stereophonic sound. Close links between WIN Television and the Nine Network ensured the Nine Network affiliation for southern New South Wales when aggregation occurred in March 1989. The changes meant that WIN expanded into the rest of southern New South Wales, launching new stations in Canberra , Orange , Bathurst , Dubbo , and Wagga Wagga , with new buildings and studios built in Orange, Wagga, and Canberra. Aggregation also provided
7125-792: The rate that loss-making stations should make to Nine Network . With just days left, deals were secured for South Australia, Griffith, and Tasmania. However, no deal was secured for the Western Australia joint venture West Digital Television before 1 July, but a deal was later finalised on 2 July 2016, with the relay of Nine content commencing that night. The channel changes reshuffled WIN's LCN listing, with One on LCNs 81 and 86, Eleven on LCN 82, TVSN on LCN 84, and Gold on LCN 85. WIN and WIN HD remained on LCNs 8 and 80. WIN also relocated its SD simulcast from LCN 81 to LCN 88. Negotiations in January 2017 for WIN to acquire Northern New South Wales station NRN in exchange for WIN's Wollongong radio station i98FM with Southern Cross Austereo failed, although
7220-660: The remaining third network. In 1993 the Australian Broadcasting Authority allocated licences for a sixth television channel for non-profit community and educational use on a trial basis. The groundwork for community television was laid in the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 , which defined a new service category, community television, for the first time. Prospective community television providers were invited to apply for transmitter licences, which were granted to groups in Sydney , Melbourne , Brisbane , Adelaide and Lismore . In February, 1995,
7315-656: The return, the "nine dots" were not reinstated on the network logo. WIN still broadcasts Network Ten content on its northern New South Wales station. On 18 March 2022, WIN Television celebrated 60 years of broadcasting across Wollongong and the Illawarra. On 16 June 2022, WIN Television converted 9Gem and 9Go! to MPEG-4 SD in Tasmania via WIN's Tasmanian station TVT . On 22 March 2023, WIN Television announced that they would be converting all of their remaining MPEG-2 channels to MPEG-4 later that same year. On 22 May 2023, 9Gem
7410-411: The short-lived Tonight Show in 1981 before being replaced by John Tingle a year later. To commemorate WIN Television's 21st year of broadcasting, a one-and-a-half-hour retrospective montage special was produced in 1983. WIN Television also co-produced the telemovie Last Chance in 1986 with a Canadian television production company. Spanning close to a decade, the children's television series Goodsports
7505-465: The three major providers of subscription television in Australia carry a common service; however they have a number of differences. Foxtel currently 'controls' the common service that Optus resell. This service is known as the Foxtel Platform. Austar broadcast into all of regional Australia (except Western Australia ), Tasmania and Darwin while Foxtel broadcast in all capital cities,
7600-510: The time and its poor ratings performance as the reason for their refusal. Prime shareholders approved the deal on 23 December, with the sale completed on 31 December. This development would mark an end to the GWN brand name after 33 years in favour of Seven Network's branding and would see its statewide news service carrying the Seven News brand. Prior to this, GWN (alongside its sister Prime) was
7695-534: The trade in April 1996 – a deal which would have seen Seven acquire GWN for A$ 72.8 million thus becoming the regional network affiliate for Western Australia. The arrangement was called off when the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission found that a 15-year exclusive programming deal GWN made with the Nine Network was anti competitive and opposed the acquisition. The Seven Network subsequently dropped their plans to purchase GWN. And as
7790-434: The world—almost one-third of the continent. The network's name, GWN , is an acronym of Golden West Network , the network's name from 1979 to when the current name was adopted in 2011. In 2021, GWN7's parent company Prime Media Group merged with Seven and the brand was retired in 2022. GWN began life as a group of smaller, independent stations: Prior to these stations signing on, remote Western Australia had been one of
7885-424: Was considered its own market region. In each of the five major capitals, three commercial licences were granted (the exception being Perth which did not receive its third commercial station until 1988 ), while smaller cities or regions were granted a single licence. The process of aggregation began in 1989. Regional markets were merged and (usually) three licences were granted in the new, aggregated, area, with
7980-466: Was converted into an MPEG-4 HD channel in most WIN areas, except Western Australia, and Northern NSW. WIN Television carries the programming of all three commercial television stations in Australia. It is a sole affiliate of the Nine Network in all broadcast areas except for Northern NSW, but it is also an affiliate of the Seven Network in Griffith, New South Wales , and eastern South Australia and
8075-547: Was converted into an MPEG-4 SD channel in most WIN areas, except Tasmania, Western Australia, and Northern NSW. On 19 June 2023, 9Go! was converted into an MPEG-4 SD channel in most WIN areas, except Tasmania, Western Australia, and Northern NSW. In most WIN areas, except Northern NSW and Western Australia, 9Gem was upgraded to an MPEG-4 HD channel on 27 July 2023. In Northern NSW, WIN upgraded 10 Bold and 10 Peach from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 in November 2023, 10 Bold on 21 November 2023, and 10 Peach on 28 November 2023. On 6 December 2023, 9Go!
8170-523: Was delivered to regional Western Australia via a satellite feed. A proposal for a third television station – a joint venture between GWN's parent company Prime Media Group and WIN Corporation – was submitted to the Australian Communications & Media Authority in 2006. Similar to Mildura Digital Television , the new channel will operate under a Section 38B licence, as a Network 10 affiliate named Ten West . The new decade saw
8265-680: Was designed so as to provide coverage of the Olympic Games in Melbourne . It has now grown to be a nationwide system that includes a broad range of public, commercial, community, subscription, narrowcast, and amateur stations. Colour television in the PAL 625-line format was introduced in 1967 and went to a full-time basis on 1 March 1975 while subscription television , on the Galaxy platform, began in January 1995. Digital terrestrial television
8360-532: Was granted in 2005, but it later lapsed. Permanent licences for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth were allocated in 2004, while trial licences remain in effect in Adelaide and Lismore. The Australian Community Television Alliance , established in March 2008 is the national representative organisation for community television. The CEO of TVS Sydney , Laurie Patton, is the Secretary and represents ACTA on
8455-636: Was incorporated on 4 October 1955 by a group of local businessmen. Five years later, it was awarded a licence by the Postmaster-General's Department over a number of other groups aligned to Sydney-based stations ATN-7 and TCN-9 to broadcast to the Illawarra and South Coast regions. The new station was to broadcast on the VHF -4 frequency, using the callsign WIN (which stood for Wollongong Illawarra New South Wales ), in line with other Australian call signs . During this period, WIN expanded through
8550-495: Was introduced on 1 January 2001 in Australia's five largest capital cities. As early as 1929, two Melbourne commercial radio stations, 3UZ and 3DB were conducting experimental mechanical television broadcasts – these were conducted in the early hours of the morning, after the stations had officially closed down. In 1934, Dr Val McDowall at amateur station 4CM Brisbane conducted experiments in electronic television. Australia has three national public broadcasters,
8645-616: Was only granted two licences. Some remained un-aggregated, and are today known as diary markets. These were granted a second licence, sometimes to the same company that owned the existing licence. Two-broadcaster areas were later granted a third licence, to a joint venture company formed as a partnership of the two existing broadcasters. Examples of these include Tasmanian Digital Television , Mildura Digital Television , Darwin Digital Television and West Digital Television service. Areas with one broadcaster were also granted
8740-592: Was presented by Noel Brunning with news and sport; and Shauna Willis with weather. As of March 2012, GWN7 produced the only dedicated local news program for regional Western Australia. The bulletin was produced and broadcast from GWN7's Spencer Street newsroom in Bunbury CBD with reporters and camera crews also based at newsrooms in Perth , Albany , Kalgoorlie , Karratha , Geraldton and Broome . Since Seven's acquisition of Prime Media would mean GWN7 News and Seven News will fall under one corporate umbrella, it
8835-566: Was produced by WIN Television from 1991 to 2000. WIN Television's current Australian programming productions consist of television shows including Fishing Australia and Alive and Cooking . On 17 May 2007, WIN Television announced a new midday programme called Susie ; however, this was subsequently moved to a morning timeslot. It lasted until 2009. WIN Television also broadcasts a range of exclusive overseas and domestically sourced programming, including The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Alive and Cooking ; however, since 2021, WIN has broadcast
8930-504: Was prohibited by law from carrying programmes from a number of genres; however, after the removal of these restrictions the channel's content was broadened considerably. It was announced by the ABC that, from 4 December 2017, ABC2 was to be replaced by ABC Comedy, ending the channel's 12-year run. ABC Entertains , a third digital-only kids channel began on 4 December 2009. ABC News , a digital news channel began on 22 July 2010. ABC Kids ,
9025-897: Was reverted to the MPEG-2 format in SD after viewers complained that they could no longer get the WIN channel on LCN 8. On 12 March 2021, Nine announced it had secured a new programme supply agreement with its original partner, WIN Network, across regional Australia beginning 1 July 2021, in effect dumping Southern Cross Austereo, which was forced to return to relaying third-placed Ten content. The seven-year deal sees WIN pay around 50 percent of broadcast advertising revenue to Nine Entertainment Co., plus advertising time for Nine's properties on WIN's television and radio assets. WIN also integrated advertising sales services for Nine's O&O regional stations, NBN , and NTD . Nine CEO Hugh Marks explained that "while our relationship with Southern Cross has been strong over
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