I was pondering that slightly yesterday when the “Nine News” on Magic referenced someone as speaking with “Channel 7” - that’s where they should pull out the callsign “Speaking with ATN”, just to minimise the free promotion.
Shouldn’t be done as an on air brand, but I think it’d be an amusing extension of trying to zoom out competitor watermarks and the like.
I think a better idea is (or would have been) to make it mandatory that network names are seen alongside channel names, whether it’s right next to the channel name in a smaller font or even part of a program’s synopsis window. This way you could have simplified channel names as well as more detailed channel info such as network, location and/or callsign.
For the record, a ‘network name’ already exists in the EIT on all digital broadcasts. It’s just that a lot of boxes don’t show it or it’s hard to find so it’s not very useful for an end user.
Imagine if it looks like this:
1 - 10 BOLD Perth
2 - ABW WA
3 - SBW WA
7 - TVW7 Perth
9 - STW9 Perth
10 - NEW10 Perth
11 - 10 Peach Perth
12 - 10 BOLD Perth
20 - ABC HD WA
22 - ABC Comedy WA
23 - ABC ME WA
24 - ABC News WA
30 - SBS HD WA
31 - SBS World Movies WA
32 - SBS Viceland WA
33 - SBS Food WA
34 - NITV WA
70 - 7HD Perth
71 - TVW7 Perth
72 - 7TWO Perth
73 - 7mate Perth
74 - 7mateHD Perth
76 - 7Flix Perth
90 - 9HD Perth
91 - STW9 Perth
92 - 9Gem Perth
93 - 9Go! Perth
94 - 9Life Perth
95 - 9Gem HD Perth
99 - 9Go! HD Perth
PUblic Broadcasters are in State, while Commercial TV is in by City.
Out of pure excitment: THAT WOULD WORK!!
Except that 9HD Perth and STW9 Perth have exactly the same content so why would they have names that indicate they are different?
Then Newcastle would look like this:
2 - ABHN5A
3 - SBS NNSW
5 - NRN11 Newcastle
6 - NEN9 Newcastle
8 - NBN3 Newcastle
20 - ABHN HD
22 - ABHN 2
23 - ABHN 3
24 - ABHN LocalNews24
30 - SBS NNSW HD
31 - SBS World Movies NNSW
32 - SBS Viceland NNSW
33 - SBS Food NNSW
34 - NITV NNSW
50 - WIN BOLD HD Newcastle
51 - WIN HD Newcastle
52 - WIN BOLD Newcastle
53 - WIN PEACH Newcastle
60 - 7mateHD Newcastle
61 - PRIMEHD Newcastle
62 - 7TWO Newcastle
63 - 7mate Newcastle
66 - 7Flix Newcastle
68 - RACING.COM
80 - 9GEMHD Newcastle
91 - NBN HD Newcastle
92 - 9Gem Newcastle
93 - 9Go! Newcastle
94 - 9Life Newcastle
99 - 9Go! HD Newcastle
Does anyone know of the Broken Hill DTV names at the moment?
Oh, and does anyone know the VAST channel names?
South Coast market from October 2019:
ABC and SBS, then
5 9 South Coast
6 PRIME7 Sth Coast
8 WIN South Coast
50 9HD South Coast
51 9 South Coast
52 9Gem
53 9Go!
54 9Life
55 SBN
56 Aspire TV
60 PRIME7 HD Sth Coast
61 PRIME7 Sth Coast
62 7TWO Sth Coast
63 7mate Sth Coast
65 ishoptv
66 7flix
68 RACING.COM
80 WIN HD South Coast
81 ONE South Coast (should be BOLD South Coast by now)
82 ELEVEN South Coast (should be ELEVEN South Coast by now)
83 Sky News on WIN
84 TVSN
85 GOLD
I think you mean “should be PEACH South Coast by now”.
When I was there for a holiday last month, its LCN names were still ONE South Coast & ELEVEN South Coast.
Wonder why there LCN’s are still… well, that?
So we all know that the Gold Coast and Central Coast are overlapping areas, but the LCN’s…
Just wondering what they would of been before the channel swap.
I recall they were “SC10 South Coast” and “WIN South Coast” before the channel swap. Nothing too interesting
1 and 4 wouldn’t happen as
Nine owns the Northern NSW NBN licence.
Nine does not allow regional affiliates to stream (which would be in competition to their own 9Now stream).
So WIN isn’t allowed to make an app??
But if WIN was to switch back to 9, northern nsw would have 2 channel 9 liesences
They could make an app, but it would probably be restricted to TV guides, local news etc, but not streaming live TV or any catch up TV.
Sorry for taking this off topic, now does any know what Broken Hills DTV channel names are? Just wanting to compare them to the freetv DTTB
WIN would sell off that licence, probably directly to Ten.
Another day, another odd hypothetical on Media Spy
Lol!
Media Spy would be a bit boring without them!