If anyone’s interested the TV Blackbox podcast had a really good, in-depth interview with Nine’s head programmer and head scheduler on the new channel launch.
9Rush is here in Darwin also with MPEG2 SD according to my TV.
9Go! on 99 has vanished again. Same thing happened when 9Gem HD launched here. I’m not sure why.
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the what
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Whoops, typo mixed with autocorrect
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9Rush is either going to be the best or worst Birthday present i’ll ever get.
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we used to have 9Life in Renmark until WIN got rid of it, had some good shows that were worth watching on it. We still don’t have stations from the Seven network like the horse racing and Flix
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TVTonight is saying that 9Rush won’t launch in Newcastle - Northern NSW
Which is curious as Nine owns the station there via NBN
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With Nine now having to allocate resources to five proper multi-channels, I wonder if we’ll see other channels pulled-back in terms of promos, marketing, content, etc.
As when 7food Network launched, a considerable amount of investment went into promoting that channel across the network, with some promos dropped or reduced for Seven’s other multi-channels.
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9Rush is a joint-venture with Discovery, I don’t think content is going to be an issue (yet). Hamish Turner seems adament about 9Rush being movie-free, let’s see how long that lasts 
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Well 7 said that 7flix would be mostly movie channel and looked how that turned out.
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Another example is ONE when it first came out
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Interesting given NBN have been running the 9RUSH promos
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Probably misplaced in playout from Sydney?
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Just had the promo for 9Rush on Nine Loxton
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It appear on my Samsung without doing a new scan 
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My old Panasonic prompted me to rescan tonight. Found 1 new channel 9Rush.
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Same for my Panasonic TV last night.
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Same for me!
Bit rates (video + audio) with the loop now running - average over 6-7pm hour.
| Ch | Mbps |
|---|---|
| Nine | 2.64 |
| 9HD | 3.61 |
| 9GEM | 2.35 |
| 9Go | 2.30 |
| 9Life | 2.89 |
| 9GEM HD | 4.35 |
| 9Rush | 3.10 |
9Rush has the nighest bitrate of Nine’s SD channels. 9HD looking very low for a HD channel.
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