And here I am thinking “Broadband killed the Television Star”…
Let’s be honest - DVB-T2 died before it got to the starting line. Just like Digital Radio in Regional Australia.
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It’ll depend on what the Government/ACMA want to do with the spectrum, if they want to sell off more UHF spectrum to Telco’s DVB-T2 will pretty much have to be introduced.
However & bit of a general, unofficial, water cooler discussion at work last week, we think there’ll be big changes in the “Broadcast TV” space within the next 5 years & then some more within the next 5 years after that, with by the end of the 10 years from now, FTA TV assuming it still exists, will pretty much be online streaming, & if “broadcast over the air” still exists, they may be back to 1-2 channels each network all sharing the 1 or 2 transmitters/frequencies? Radio will continue on more years past that though.
We are actually wondering/waiting to find out how many regional stations/areas go black & how soon, now after Mildura’s gone. We’re also waiting to find what metro network folds & goes dark? All indications point to it’ll be TEN & in the not too distant future, but it’ll depend what happens with Paramount in the USA, TEN might end up in the best position? Thoughts for the discussion at work are that don’t rule out that it could be 7 or 9 fall over & go first, whatever the outcome, we don’t think in 5 or so years time, there’ll be 3 commercial FTA TV networks & 2 national TV networks operational either Regionally or Metro as they are today.
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I’m having flashbacks to just the ABC and TV8 (and maybe BTV-6) available as it was before 1992 here…
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Seven will probably need to merge with ARN at some point down the road, to survive. A Seven-ARN combo will diversify their revenue and provide cross-platform opportunities for sales and promotions, similar to what Nine do with its papers and talkback radio.
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Plus they can get talent to work across both mediums for the price of one salary.
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They can get Kyle to read the all of the Channel Seven 6pm news bulletins for the money he’s on!
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WIN Bitrates measured today (6 hours average) compared to last night. TVSN is a static slide.
| July | June | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 9SD | 2.4 | 2.2 |
| 80 | 9HD | 5.3 | 4.3 |
| 81 | Gem HD | 4.9 | 4.1 |
| 82 | Go HD | 5.2 | 6.5 |
| 83 | Life | 1.8 | 1.7 |
| 84 | Ex TVSN | 0.6 | 1.4 |
| 85 | Gold | 1.1 | 1.1 |
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SC 10 (QLD) bit rates
| 5, 51 | SD | 2.8 |
| 50 | 10 HD | 5.4 |
| 52 | 10 Peach | 2.9 |
| 53 | 10 Bold | 2.8 |
| 54 | Nick | 1.9 |
| 55 | SBN | 1.6 |
| 56 | Sky News | 1.6 |
| 57 | Gecko | 1.8 |
| 58 | You | 1.9 |
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New channel coming slide on LCN 84 off Mt Wellington.
Currently looks like:
8 : 9HD Hobart
80 : 9HD Hobart
81 : 9GEM
82 : 9GO
83 : 9Life
84 : New Channel coming soon
85 : WIN Gold
88 : WIN SD Hobart
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Also getting the “New Channel Coming Soon” slide on LCN 54 on WIN10 Nth NSW (Newcastle).
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Is 88 really named “WIN” in Tassie? I know they’re the only market that has the HD channels in the single digital range.
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My apologies, like @tx42 points out its 9SD Hobart…
Not WIN.
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It’s probably 9Go HD, which just launched in the mainland metro capitals last month.
Either that, or another crappy shopping channel😂
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If there is the same slide showing in NNSW where WIN carries 10 programming as in areas that have Nine programming it suggest that it will be a shopping channel.
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Or infotainment… like WIN Gold Plus Super Extra 
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We have already got 9GoHD in WIN areas, if you look up you will see 9Go as “HD”
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I’d like to see that on tap!
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The Krapoff, Tivo heater, Gold2, expanding hose super channel…yeah baby…
Oh dear, new lifetime low that I know those…
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I recently had a look at how the WA commercial networks were allocating bandwidth since they changed to MPEG-4 for all services and was surprised to see they each have over 10 Mbps of null packets left over.
It seems like they’re running way more efficiently than a standard mux would despite not offering their full suites of channels. Seven, for example, has 10 Mbps left over and they’re only missing 7Bravo and 7flix.
| Seven | |
|---|---|
| 7HD Regional WA | 2.77 Mbps |
| 7two Regional WA | 1.43 Mbps |
| 7mateHD Regional WA | 3.70 Mbps |
| TVSN | 1.45 Mbps |
| RACING.COM | 2.26 Mbps |
| Null packets | 9.99 Mbps |
| WIN | |
| Channel 9 | 1.76 Mbps |
| 9HD | 4.84 Mbps |
| 9Gem | 1.09 Mbps |
| 9Go! | 0.99 Mbps |
| TVSN | 0.90 Mbps |
| 9Life | 1.71 Mbps |
| Null packets | 9.98 Mbps |
| WDT | |
| 10HD | 5.21 Mbps |
| 10Bold | 1.97 Mbps |
| 54 WA | 1.00 Mbps |
| 10Peach | 2.44 Mbps |
| Null packets | 11.11 Mbps |
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