Digital TV Technical Discussion

[AddictedtoTV]

It was here in the dtv channel names thread:

@Radio_TVGuy

@TV-Expert

@AussieTVGuy

Is the South Coast market different from the Wollongong market.

They broadcast different ads to that of Wollongong, in which they air local ads for the areas between Ulladulla & Eden.

Except WIN doesn’t have its own dedicated South Coast feed, instead choosing to take a dirty relay of Wollongong. The same situation can be said with the Central Coast where WIN’s 10 (now Network 10) signal into the Central Coast just takes Newcastle. To book advertising space on ex-WIN 10 you need to contact the Newcastle office, unless they also have an office on the Central Coast?

In short, these are the names as follows…

South Coast NSW: 9HD Wollongong
Central Coast NSW: 10HD Newcastle

SWM and SCA (now Network 10) retain local feeds for the South Coast specifically for advertising purposes, while on the Central Coast SWM and NBN have local Central Coast feeds, again for advertising but on NBN you also get the local Central Coast news instead of the Newcastle bulletin.

Thanks for confirming though, because when I last went to the South coast, it was definitely 9HD South Coast and the SD channel was Ch9 Sth Coast rather than just 9/9HD Wollongong.