- That’s literally 3.5 graphics packages ago!
- It’s the wrong side!
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No it’s not. The IMP logo is there to cover up the Nine watermark on the bottom right, it’s only designed to match the ACA logo.
This is shocking.
The cover ups are ancient and they are still using elements of the 2012-15 package. Wow.
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Looks like they’ve brought out the (G)IMP!
Why couldn’t they use their logo to cover up Dotty, instead of three letters? Just take off the Imparja Television bit and BAM!
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It’s likely the last time they had someone on the payroll to do graphics for them.
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Except if I’m not mistaken, Imparja get a clean feed (without Nine watermark) for Today & ACA - just like WIN did during those final years of Nine affiliation.
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Since Imparja is broadcast out of MediaHub. I would dare say that WIN would have designed the coverups for themselves and Imparja when they were affiliated with Nine.
Since they’re no longer affiliated they wouldn’t have bothered to create new coverups, meaning Imparja are stuck with the old ones.
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It could also cost them to have the graphics changed. I suspect they paid WIN to design these current ones when they contracted their playout to MHA, but not to maintain them.
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Which always leads me to believe the market can’t sustain more than one commercial broadcaster. Something has to change.
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They could probably save a lot of money if they could become primarily a VAST satellite broadcaster and only have terrestrial TXs in the largest centres like Mt Isa and Alice Springs.
Have everyone else convert to VAST by say 1 July 2022 and switch off excess terrestrials after that. Government assistance could be provided to low income households. It would be in the public interest to ensure current services remain on air.
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I’ve wondered whether the remote licence area can sustain just one broadcaster. 7 Central must be in a similar situation (although it probably has a greater ability to lean on SCA as a whole)
What do you do? Is it time to review the licence area?
That’s what I thought - combine the West Australian and Central/Eastern Satellite areas into one Remote/Satellite Australia license area. Until I came into one very significant issue - 4 into 3 does not fit.
7 would be supplied by either GWN or SCA. Which one do you bump off?
9 would be supplied by either Imparja or SCA if Imparja went off air and SCA changed affiliation. Again, which one would you bump off?
10 would be supplied by WIN.
The joint ventures would obviously be dissolved.
The only potential buyers I could see would be the Independent owners of 8HA/Sun FM Alice Springs or Resonate Broadcasting (who own radio stations in a few cross over Remote/Rural markets). Both could do joint Radio and TV sales.
If it became a solus market SCA may want to buy but they’ve been wanting to get out of TV for years.
It probably can’t but surely one loss making station is better than two?
I don’t know what they should do. @Radiohead 's idea with reducing transmission costs is a good start.
Won’t that just increase the problem at hand? Massive area covered with little population.
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They are broke.
So is Imparja 
Sounds like the Rodney Rude joke where he tells the homeless man to get insurance for his crap with HIH - they’ve got nothing, you’ve got nothing… 
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Oh jesus christ
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