What I was talking about was expanding it to a point where it would fill time day-after-day on a channel. For a sports channel, you would be looking at US sports
You mean their backsides, right?
No I donât! Oneâs enough! 
Anyone who has been around MediaSpy long enough will know me as being someone who likes the ladies. Or at least looking at pictures of them.
Iâm not that paranoid. 
Give me some credit.
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24/7 Health Channel? Nothing but medical goods? 
I read that in my mind as the promo announcer 
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TV Tonight says rumours persist that this will be a movies channel.
Network Director of Programming Angus Ross confirmed to TV Tonight, âWe are launching a new channel in February and things will be announced soon.â
emphasis on the word âthingsâ - plural⌠more than one.
7HD will be announced too then youâd have to think.
Full announcement this week. Promos start tomorrow or Monday including a continuous loop on Channel 76. Begins programming on Feb 7 for the start of ratings. Well, thatâs what Iâd like to see anyway 
doesnât OzTam only open 2 or 3 slots in the year to add new channels to ratings? So if that happens, they might not be released until (for example) May 4?
I thought they just needed X weeks notice from the network of a new channel commencing operations.
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As a Brit I just struggle to see why the networks are so reluctant to relay information to their viewers. Here a new channel would be announced and promoted for months, not announces and launched a week later.
TV Tonight are speculating on a movie channel but canât see that happening.
No idea. Possibly. I never said I was accurate lol. [quote=âRyan, post:132, topic:341â]
thought they just needed X weeks notice from the network of a new channel commencing operations.
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Is it possible 7 has done this and itâs just not been made public?
From TV Tonight when 9HD and 9Life launched:
Nineâs new lifestyle channel Life and SBS channel Food Network will be added to OzTAM ratings from November 29.
A spokesperson confirmed to TV Tonight OzTAM has four or five dates a year when channels can be introduced, deleted or change names.
Does anyone know those dates?
76 will be a channel targeted at the over 76 years audience.
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Great! Iâm heading that way rapidly! Lol
Things must have changed in the last few years then. Also from TV Tonight:
"OzTAM chief Kate Inglis-Clark said Nine had failed to give the required notice for its August 9 launch.
âWe just put the systems in place,â Inglis-Clark told The Australian. âItâs just timing. They had to give eight weeksâ notice.â
Iâd love if it was a movie channel, especially if it was in HD.
If both 7HD and 76 are used in MPEG4 format, could both be HD?
9 and 7 have always been like this - itâs a very unique trait of Australian TV. Everything between the big two is always kept a secret until the last minute. Itâs the culture in Aussie TV. Itâs not like this in the US either.
In the UK BBC dominates, BBC also does not take a single cent of ad revenue. In Australia itâs a two horse race between 7 and 9 who are neck a neck and both battling for ad dollars.
BBC has no ad dollars. Then ITV gets half what BBC does. And Channel 4 half that again. I donât think there is as much at stake (relative) to the ad market size in the UL as there is in Australia.
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