Well I guess those screenshots confirm that WIN will definitely be on 5 in NNSW and not 8. Nine (NBN) would never swap LCN numbers with WIN.
WIN getting a bit of their own medicine back. 8 for us is 9NBN. Always was, Always will be. As I’ve stated before that whole mess is no fault of 9NBN so why would they change.
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All the guides would be automatically updating to say WIN anyway depending on where they get their data from
Of course WIN wouldn’t get 8x. Standby for updated affiliation swap promos…
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Damn, if NBN was still on channel 3, it could be “they’ll never take our threedom!”
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I think the only time anyone has ever suggested there could be a change in LCNs in NNSW is on this site. It’s never been suggested anywhere else and WIN hasn’t asked for it.
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Definitely. The amount of speculation about even the most menial things about the purchase of the station on here is starting to border on ridiculous.
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Speaking of TV guides, here is the TV guide from Ten’s website.
It still says Southern Cross Ten, although judging by some of the other logos here, it may not be updated for a while yet!
(All other WIN markets have the WIN logo)
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The question would be: Will 9NBN run a promo like what Seven QLD did before the July 2016 switch?
Like this:
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No way
We’re not seeing affiliation swaps and big changes this time around. Considering Nine can’t decide whether to call their NNSW station Nine, NBN or 9NBN, I doubt anyone cares that the Ten channel is changing its name
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Why - there is no affiliation switch, just a change in ownership of one station. This is a different scenario.
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9NBN really SHOULDN’T be running a promo like 7QLD’s
- Prime7 seems more stable than both 9NBN and TEN/WIN
- 9NBN doesn’t seem to know whether its 9 or NBN half the time anyway.
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So now we have this clusterfuck of Ten channels…
| Network Ten | WIN TV | WIN NNNSW | Southern Cross SGS/SCN | Ten Central & Ten Darwin | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | 8 | WIN | 5 | Ten | 5 | Ten | 1 | One HD |
| 10 | Ten | 80 | WIN HD | 50 | One | 50 | One HD | 10 | Ten |
| 11 | Eleven | 81 | One | 51 | Ten | 11 | Eleven | ||
| 12 | One | 82 | Eleven | 52 | Ten HD | ||||
| 13 | Ten HD | 83 | placeholder | ||||||
| 14 | TVSN | 84 | TVSN | ||||||
| 15 | Spree TV | 85 | WIN Gold | 55 | Eleven | 55 | Eleven | ||
| 86 | One | ||||||||
| 57 | TVSN | 57 | TVSN (?) | ||||||
| 88 | WIN | ||||||||
Meanwhile on Seven and Nine…
| 7 or 6 | Seven | 9 or 5 (8 NNSW) |
Nine |
| 70 or 60 | 7HD or Seven | 90 or 50 (80 NNSW) |
Nine |
| 71 or 61 | Seven | 91 or 51 (81 NNSW) |
Nine |
| 72 or 62 | 7two | 92 or 52 (82 NNSW) |
9Gem |
| 73 or 63 | 7mate or 7mate HD | 93 or 53 (83 NNSW) |
9Go! |
| 94 or 54 (84 NNSW) |
9Life | ||
| 95 (85 NNSW) |
Extra | ||
| 76 or 66 | 7flix | 56 | Aspire TV |
| 78 or 68 | Racing.com | ||
| 99 (88 NNSW) |
9Go! [sim.] |
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What difference does it make to a viewer in one region, what channel allocations apply somewhere else?
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Was just about to post the same thing.
For the viewers of Northen NSW, effectively nothing significant changes for them post ownership swap and most wouldn’t be none the wiser anyway.
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What I mean is that NBN might say, “We aren’t going anywhere. NBN will still be on Channel 8 and on 9HD Channel 80.”
Network consolidation and brand consistency. Why else would SAS-10 and ADS-7 have swapped frequencies in the 1980s? Or the ABA assign digital LCNs to affiliates based on their network? Or move STQ from ch6 to ch7?
The most that will happen in the foreeable future is “Ten” will become “WIN” and a channel shuffle to bring them in line with the other WIN channels (but still on 5x).
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There was no affiliation swap so why would there be any suggestion that there would be an LCN swap. An invented problem unique to this forum.
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This isn’t the 80s. Channel numbers don’t mean much with digital television.
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yes?
Depending on where you are…
- GEM is on channel 50 in HD, channel 52, channel 82, channel 90 in HD and on channel 92
- GO is on channel 53, 55, 83, 93 and 99 (not as a dupe)
- 7MATEHD and 7TWO in WIN territory is on 60 and 66
- TVSN is on 14, 57, 75, 84 and so forth
Channel numbers are a mess across all networks and their affiliates. Not that it really matters. Regional viewers would rather have 7FLIX, 9LIFE and other missing channels than worry about whether their channels are in the same order as the next market
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Both tables don’t include the monopoly markets Griffith and Mt Gambier/Riverland as they are small markets with minor variations. Otherwise, everything else fits (with only one or two small variations). Ten on the other hand does not have minor variations, but is all over the place.