The WIN brand won’t be inflicted on Ten branded multi-channels. Some of you seem to have forgotten WIN had no issues using Channel Nine branding when they were largely a Nine affiliate.
Erm - they went through extensive periods of blocking any mention of Nine, doing things like playing their own production enders over the top of Nine’s ones, calling Nine News “National News” in the EPG to avoid mentioning Nine’s name, covering up the Nine logo in News and Sporting coverage, covering up the entire bottom bar on the Today show and more.
9Life was a rare exception, they went on calling the other channels just ‘Go!’ and ‘Gem’ even continuing to use their old logos in many places to avoid the dots.
There was seemingly a slight pull back on that stuff towards the end of their affiliation - as despite all that WIN likely really didn’t want to end up as a Ten affiliate - but it was absolutely not the norm from the decade prior of being aggressive in blocking out Nine’s branding.
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I was referring to the 9 multi-channel branding.
Obviously WIN has always tried to maintain their own image on their main channel. I would too if I was paying nearly half of my revenue to another company.
They’ve been using their own bugs for over 20 years, way before the 2007 affiliation debacle.
There was never any attempt at re-producing 9Go! 9Gem and 9Life promos to remove the 9 v/o or dots.
I believe the random use of the old logos was a playout issue. SCA have the same issue with the old logos appearing time to time as well.
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The only time they’ve modified multi-channel promos was way back when GO! launched. They tacked on their mappy logo on all the GO! promo enders. No cover-ups, just WIN mappy next to the GO! logo. It didn’t last long at all. Someone on MS back in the day said they got in trouble for it (could have been speculation or assumption, but I recall it was from a Wollongong insider who was on the forums at the time)
I don’t think they were errors. When GO! relaunched as 9Go!, WIN started showing new idents that they hadn’t previously shown and were mashups from old promos and contained only the old ident.
Blatant removal of dots here:
I’d believe it was all innocent errors if WIN didn’t have a history of shitting on the Nine brand so much. Yes other networks play old idents (SC Nine in SA showing the 2009 Welcome Home ident up until recently, WIN 7 still showing old 7 sponsor boards, etc), but when you consider WIN’s past and their disdain for dots (Perth/Adelaide are prime examples) it was clearly part of their fucked up anti-Nine strategy.
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Correct, and also don’t forget that 9Life was just named “LIFE” on the EPG for its entire run with WIN.
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To this day WIN still have the EPG names as GEM and GO
Granted they were the original names for these channels but they’re not calling the Seven channels TWO and MATE
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Anyone having issues with the EPG for the WIN Network? Here in TAS, it’s fine until Sat 6am, then only the main channel and nothing else. And it doesn’t look like it’s been updated either, still has This is Us 9.30pm Thur for example.
It’s fine on my Fetch box in Canberra.
Thanks. I’m not sure what the issue is.
Full EPG in WA, too.
I asked my DVR to find the programming, it happily found Eleven’s programming but only some of One’s.
And it changed This Is Us’ timeslot too.
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Don’t have any equipment with me to verify but WIN SA is broadcasting something on channel 54 - only showing on some televisions.
Channel name and EPG is Sky News on WIN but nothing showing on the channel. MPEG2 not MPEG4.
Belongs to WIN NINE MUX. Doesn’t disappear with rescans. Possibly 9LIFE return?
Also 7TWO has moved from 66 to 62.
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Is 9Go! still on 55? Would be strange to move the Seven channels but not the Nine ones.
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Yes
NINE 5
GEM 50
Unknown 54
GO! 55
Seven 6
7MATE 60
7TWO 62
Remember this?
I think WIN were just using the names of Crawfords shows as fillers of future unannounced shows.
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7mate on 63 next.
Wasn’t that a mock?
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I believe @RegionalTV did that particular mock. This is how good it was:
When Network Ten’s new look and full programming lineup for next year is officially announced/launched it’d be great to see (in the relevant thread, of course) a 2019 version with Sky News/Fox Sports News content listed! 
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Not while 7MATE continues to be broadcast in HD and the main Seven channel is not
It’s weird how WIN does that. Prime used 63 for 7mate HD for years.
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