They showed up on satellite last night.
MAX:
Australian Played:
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Now can we please have CMT and V Australia? or Mayes the return of red?
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Australian Played is a brand used by Nightlife, I wonder if they’re operating the new channels.
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The musicmax.com.au domain was updated in February, as well as vmusic.com.au
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Channel V and Channel Max back and in HD as well
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What channel numbers? I don’t have any of these yet on my iq5
Not available until July - seems like they’re testing on the satellite at the moment
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In house music stations, probably a cost thing then. Bring on an in house kids channel like Sky launched about 6 years ago.
Wonder how long they’ve licensed the Fox name/Foxtel for and if at some point the plan is to rebrand to Binge or something else, I doubt they’d confuse the DAZN branding
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Looks like your correct, countrymusicchannel.com.au was also updated in February and is owned by Foxtel.
It’s interesting they’ve gone back to in-house given one of the reasons offered when the in-house channels were dropped was their cost (especially music licencing)
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Its good to see Foxtel returning to their own production again - there is still brand recognition for V, Max and CMC - the CMC Rocks festivals have continued to live on even without the broadcast channel.
With regards to the Foxtel brand - I’m going to put it out there now - rebrand to Austar.
… interesting data point re domain name renewal …
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Are these channels currently transmitting test signals as well?
Kids would more likely serve as a replacement for NickMusic than for Cartoon Network or Boomerang. As for Sky Kids, it functions less as an in-house channel and more as a rebranded version of the DreamWorks Channel.I’m not convinced DAZN would have the capacity—or perhaps even the time—to develop a service that matches the quality of previous replacements. Beyond that, sourcing content would likely be a significant challenge, especially considering the damage Foxtel’s former ownership did to key content provider relationships.
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Back to the future with the OG names back
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No, but they now contain the EPG from the channels they are replacing. Not that it wasn’t obvious anyway, lol.
Test Club→Club MTV
Test Retro→MTV 80s
Test Tranding→MTV Hits
Test CMC→CMT
Test Kids→Nick Music
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Blackbox now has a story largely based on this forum. no comment from Foxtel.
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It’s not the Daily Fail using us for fodder for once 
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I didn’t think they’d mention us by name… I would have expected a more generic “viewers in online forums” label, so could have been noted in Whirlpool or somewhere else.
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Not even a shoutout to @WAtvVideos for spotting the max feed! Criminal
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These are sounding great revivals and hopefully an improvement to these average MTV music channels. An Australian focused music channel is what I’ve been wanting for a long time. It has felt like such a missed opportunity.
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