Well, the reason is that it’s my favourite channel in Regional VIC, TAS, SA, QLD and Southern & Northern NSW (formerly WA).
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Is there any idea as to when WIN Gold will be shut-down or is this WINs payment for doing news updates for 10?
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I think it’s the payment.
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Still using the 6 Christmas Idents from 2012 and 2016.
Bro what do you expect?
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That’s just GOLD
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More idents that Nine and 10 tbf
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I was updating the Wikipedia article for this channel a couple of years ago, and assumed that it closed in Adelaide and Perth immediately when Nine took over the stations in those markets.
To viewers like @Nick (Adelaide) and @MichaelPower (Perth), the channel wasn’t missed. Most viewers simply deleted it when they cleaned up their channel list.
Was this still the 9 channel lineup in late 2013?:
9 - Nine Digital
90 - GEM
91 - Nine Digital
92 - GOLD2
94 - GOLD
99 - GO!
I don’t remember travelling to Adelaide or Perth in 2013, which is why I was pinging Mike and Nick - they know because they have lived in those 2 cities.
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Yes, because Nine ditching some perfect GOLD. Probably better than real GOLD.
I recently noticed that Newstyle usually broadcasts on GOLD every Saturday. Is GSD (Global Shop Direct) planning to not broadcast as much on Saturdays? Or is it that WIN and GOLD is going?
Won’t it switch over to NBN at some stage?
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Probably only when playout gets moved to Mediahub, which might possibly be when the Newcastle control room comes online at the end of next month.
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What is to say NBN had already signed a long term contract with NPC like how Prime signed one with TBS before Seven bought Prime?
My guess would be that NRN would have done likewise with Media Hub, and potentially they could just agree a mutually beneficial swap of what would be similar resources/contracts, especially now Ten has moved their metro playout to NPC, so will benefit from fully centralising.
It’s a different situation though, NBN was owned by 9 before so presumably wouldn’t have to have a contract to use its own playout services, whereas with Prime, when they signed the TBS contract, they were still independent so presumably 7, being the new owners technically, would still have to honour the contract.
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