I’d guess there’s a smaller population to potentially impact, both in terms of viewer disastisfaction and in ratings (the race isn’t close for 10 anyway though). And an SD simulcast is an encoder that can be switched off to save money or allocated to another datacasting channel for extra revenue. A metro station can stomach the costs but not a regional.
Was the 10SD switch-off in ex-SCA areas something done before or after 10 purchased?
I can’t remember but if it was after they really have even less of an excuse
It was done on 1 May 2025 after the sale from SCA to 10 was complete on 1 March 2025.
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The 10SD signals were switched off in the ex-SCA 3-agg regional TV markets beginning on 1st May 2025, 2 months after 10 took over operations of the said stations from SCA. Channels 5, 50 and 51, along with multichannels 10 comedy and 10 drama, are all now in MPEG-4 HD.
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Too sensible, and you know it. But yes, totally agree.
This is more a case of an existing operator eventually hoarding all local ad revenue onto their main affiliate service, being WIN9. Will be interesting to see what happens when the WIN affiliation with TEN ends, and if it were to continue, possibly with no local ad inserts or switched off like Mildura, thereby leaving the WIN9 service being the only place local advertisers can book spots again. Back to the bad old days. Whereas if the whole of regional SA/Broken Hill was merged into the one TV1 aggregated licence area, that would at least bring back competition again for local ad buys.
But 7 is still going, 10 are done now. (Except for JVs)
Its great that 10 Comedy is now HD in the metros, just a shame they don’t always have HD versions of the shows.
“Friends” is on now, it was filmed and is available in HD, but looks upscaled SD on 10 Comedy.
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Another area with a lot of VHF phased array antennas in this street.
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SBS Food should go HD next, and hopefully all the imported food shows will have closed captions as well.
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On that topic, I noted captions on Racing dot com recently which was surprising, but positive nonetheless for a datacast channel.
My Belmont North TV reception is pixelsting today. Usually solid at only about 5 kms away.
I’m still getting 10/10 signal strength and quality from both Sugarloaf and Central Coast.
Weather is very mild today, it’s possible Manly/Mosman and/or Kings Cross is interfering as they use the same UHF 28-33 channels, but are horizontal (Belmont North is vertical).
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I would say you’re not getting that from Belmont North, might be from the Warners Bay translator, I’ve got a day off today & have no channels from Belmont North at all, they’ve been off since at least 10:30am this morning when I first noticed it. As you know, I’m about 1km from the Belmont North site & only have a low in height antenna pointing there, I can’t get the Mt Sugarloaf channels as they’re not strong enough with my antenna location & direction & there’s definitely no way Manly or Kings Cross would be interfering with Belmont North transmissions here.
EDIT: I’ve just spoken to the Engineering Manager at NBN TV & he said that there’s tower works going on at the Belmont North site today, all the channels should be back on by 3pm, they may be off again other days this week as well.
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That would explain it then! Thanks.
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See my edit, I’d say you’re definitely getting Warners Bay channels today.
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Thanks, yes, I just pointed my antenna west at Munibung Hill and reception is perfect.
I also tried it horizontal pointing south to see if any sign of Manly/Mosman or Kings Cross, and sadly nothing.
Edit: Belmont North back on now.
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Figured I’d jump this over to the tech thread, so there’s two multiplexes in Griffith, on the AMN-30 frequency there’s the 9 network channels, and then on the MTN-29 frequency there’s the shared Seven and Ten multiplex.
| Griffith WIN | Name | Video | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8/80 | 9HD Griffith | 5.5Mbps H.264 HD | 384k AC3 |
| 81 | 9Gem | 4.3Mbps H.264 HD | 384k AC3 |
| 82 | 9Go! | 7.1Mbps H.264 HD | 384k AC3 |
| 83 | 9Life | 1.0Mbps H.264 SD | 128k MP2 |
| 84 | New Channel Coming Soon | 0.5Mbps H.264 SD | 128k MP2 |
| 85 | GOLD | 1.5Mbps H.264 SD | 128k MP2 |
| MH Griffith 7 | Name | Video | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5/50 | 10HD Griffith | 5.4Mbps H.264 HD | 384k AC3 |
| 51 | 10 drama | 1.2Mbps H.264 SD | 128k MP2 |
| 52 | 10 comedy | 1.4Mbps H.264 SD | 128k MP2 |
| 6/60 | 7HD Griffith | 4.0Mbps H.264 HD | 384k AC3 |
| 62 | 7TWO | 1.2Mbps H.264 SD | 128k MP2 |
| 63 | 7mate | 5.8Mbps H.264 HD | 384k AC3 |
So yeah, 7mate is also HD, probably the best pick of multichannels - especially given Griffith is in the grey area as far as NRL vs AFL, it probably would be a popular decision.
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Thanks for posting the table, good to know.
I wonder how these got swapped around ie. shouldn’t MTN really be carrying Nine not 7/10 as MTN was the main channel licence… Not that it really matters.
I would say they weren’t swapped back in the July 2021 affiliation swap.
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Good to see WIN offering 7mate in HD. Seven must have specified this in their recent deal with WIN.
Are these names accurate? I’m glad if they are. The last time I checked they were using the Nine naming scheme for everything (10Bold, 7Mate, etc), which is still the case in WA on West Digital.
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If we’re being really pedantic, the channel name is "7TWO ", but yeah.
NIT tables
Network Information Table
Network Name: Griffith WIN
Network ID: 12915 (0x3273)
Transport Stream ID: 12928 (0x3280)
Original Network ID: 12915 (0x3273) Version: 9
Descriptor: Network Name Descriptor
DVB-T Frequency 585.250 MHz
Bandwidth: 7 MHz Constellation: 64-QAM
Hierarchy: non-hierarchical, native interleaver Guard Interval 1/16
Code Rate: 3/4
Current Network: True
Descriptor: Service List Descriptor
Service: 1921 (9HD Griffith) H.264/AVC HD digital television service
Service: 1922 (9Gem) H.264/AVC HD digital television service
Service: 1926 (9Go!) H.264/AVC HD digital television service
Service: 1927 (GOLD) H.264/AVC SD digital television service
Service: 1928 (New Channel Coming Soon) H.264/AVC SD digital television service
Service: 1936 (9Life) H.264/AVC SD digital television service
Service: 1941 (9HD Griffith) H.264/AVC HD digital television service
Descriptor: Private Data Specifier Descriptor
Private Data Specifier: Unknown
Descriptor: User Private Descriptor: 0x83
Logical channel 8 = MPEG service 1921 (9HD Griffith)
Logical channel 81 = MPEG service 1922 (9Gem)
Logical channel 82 = MPEG service 1926 (9Go!)
Logical channel 85 = MPEG service 1927 (GOLD)
Logical channel 84 = MPEG service 1928 (New Channel Coming Soon)
Logical channel 83 = MPEG service 1936 (9Life)
Logical channel 80 = MPEG service 1941 (9HD Griffith)
Network Information Table
Network Name: MH Griffith 7
Network ID: 12929 (0x3281)
Transport Stream ID: 12938 (0x328a)
Original Network ID: 12929 (0x3281) Version: 4
Descriptor: Network Name Descriptor
DVB-T Frequency 575.250 MHz
Bandwidth: 7 MHz Constellation: 64-QAM
Hierarchy: non-hierarchical, native interleaver Guard Interval 1/16
Code Rate: 3/4
Current Network: True
Descriptor: Service List Descriptor
Service: 2048 (10HD Griffith) H.264/AVC HD digital television service
Service: 2049 (10 drama) H.264/AVC SD digital television service
Service: 2050 (10 comedy) H.264/AVC SD digital television service
Service: 2051 (10HD Griffith) H.264/AVC HD digital television service
Service: 2304 (7HD Griffith) H.264/AVC HD digital television service
Service: 2305 (7mate) H.264/AVC HD digital television service
Service: 2306 (7TWO ) digital television service
Service: 2307 (7HD Griffith) H.264/AVC HD digital television service
Descriptor: Private Data Specifier Descriptor
Private Data Specifier: Unknown
Descriptor: User Private Descriptor: 0x83
Logical channel 5 = MPEG service 2048 (10HD Griffith)
Logical channel 51 = MPEG service 2049 (10 drama)
Logical channel 52 = MPEG service 2050 (10 comedy)
Logical channel 50 = MPEG service 2051 (10HD Griffith)
Logical channel 6 = MPEG service 2304 (7HD Griffith)
Logical channel 63 = MPEG service 2305 (7mate)
Logical channel 62 = MPEG service 2306 (7TWO )
Logical channel 60 = MPEG service 2307 (7HD Griffith)
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