The EPG on 7 Sydney has 7HD now mirroring 7mate, not the main channel, with the Women’s AFL to be in HD tonight.
Fortunately, the EPG is wrong!
On screen, 7HD is still the main channel, and the Women’s AFL is SD only.
Phew, but I suspect it won’t stay that way for much longer with the AFL season looming.
Hope I’m wrong.
Is Perth doing the same as Sydney?
Nope, Perth still using the main channel’s EPG.
Probably a glitch, because “7HD Sydney” is running EPG data for main channel programing again.
AFL shouldn’t really complain, just wish they get over the HD thing, OK Grand Final needs to be in HD but that’s on the main channel anyway. If you really want HD then Foxtel is the way to go. Always the main channel should be given HD preference rather than a secondary channel.
In case anyone was wondering, I have been told that Southern Cross are set to make an announcement in regards to their main channel HD offering very soon.
Seeing as the 2017 AFL season is almost upon us, here’s hoping it’s up and running in time for the new season Thursday week.
Hopefully they will roll out HD in all their remaining areas. Probably too much to hope that SA and Broken Hill will get 7HD, 9HD and TENHD.
News Breakfast is spruiking a new, big set, but it looks like we still only get to see it in SD on their HD channel.
$90 million upgrade well spent ABC
These people spent 8 weeks making Facebook videos about their big amazing new HD studio - and literally nothing has changed
EP said it would be in HD on Facebook live
Wasn’t the EP. And it is in SD. As predicted.
Well I posted in this thread a few weeks back about WIN doing this in SA and Griffith/MIA and really its the same thing that could apply to SC GTS/BKN
Why can’t they just, instead of having GEM and 7MATE in HD, put NINE and SEVEN in MPEG2 HD and have those other channels downgraded to SD?
Only reasons I can think of that may not allow this:
Yes, there are two markets for GTS/BKN, Port Lincoln and Broken Hill, Whyalla and Port Pirie.
[quote=“EyewitnessTV, post:1170, topic:279, full:true”]
In case anyone was wondering, I have been told that Southern Cross are set to make an announcement in regards to their main channel HD offering very soon.
[/quote]This has been confirmed now as launching just in time for the 2017 AFL season on Thursday March 23rd. 
New channeling listing:
SCTV SD: Ch.6/61
SCTV HD: Ch.60
7TWO: Ch.62
7mate: Ch.63
Racing.com: Ch.68
Fantastic to see Southern Cross launching their main channel HD service even before some of Seven’s O&O stations have. 
Too bad they don’t rebrand the multi-channels as SC TWO and SCmate with the star in place of the 7.
I think 7mate is bogan enough without Southern Cross in the name too. 
Wrong way around.
SCA have said they’re primarily a radio company, and have shown they don’t care about having their own TV brand (Nine & Ten in NSW/Vic/Qld), so it’d sooner expect them to rebrand the main channel to SC7 or just 7 instead.
I’m surprised that they haven’t already rebranded SCTV to just Seven, following the Nine and Ten branding everywhere else. They’ve proven with their Nine stations that all they have to do is nothing and they’ll still get great ratings.
Brand loyalty probably has a lot to do with it (look at how slow the ‘NBN → 9NBN → Nine’ transition has been), especially in high-rating Tasmania.
Possibly that and the fact that they have their own news services in Tas and on GTS/BKN. Not sure they’d want to go and produce a bulletin under the 7 News brand, or if 7 would let them.
