Bob would love it… haha
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For those people doubting his expertise. Bruce Gordon was an entertainer from around the time he turned 20. In the 1950’s Gordon was reportedly a talented magician, regularly performing at the Tivoli Theatre in Sydney, and on the Tivoli circuit. He also did a show in cinemas before the main feature, and performed in night clubs. And he was very generous in passing on his trade secrets.
Source: Brisbane Telegraph, 17 September 1951
Source: The Sunday Telegraph, Sydney, 23 August 1953
Later, Gordon rose to be a manager at the Tivoli.
Source: The West Australian, 23 June, 1954
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When WIN launched its 2nd channel in SA in 2004 they could have gone with the Seven Network as its affiliate partner for the channel, but Seven did not have AFL rights at the time. AFL was the reason they ended up with Ten (which had the Saturday arvo and night rights). Also Ten had a strong lineup back then with shows such as Australian Idol, Big Brother and The Secret Life of Us.
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I remember emailing the WIN SA manager around 2002 & at that time he believed the plan for the new channel was to go with Seven & the existing SES/RTS channel was to be a combination of Nine & Ten but things obviously changed, but I don’t believe many viewers were expecting Seven programs to disappear almost completely apart from the Olympic Games & the Melbourne Cup.
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and by 2007 (1) Seven regained the AFL rights (2) had strong shows such as Lost and Desperate Housewives dominating the ratings and (3) WIN’s relationship with Nine had soured badly, these three reasons were why WIN SA’s main channel decided to go with Seven instead of Nine.
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No. TV Blackbox isn’t a reliable site and had previously reported in the past that Channel Ten was-to-launch MTV as a third multichannel. Simply a copy-paste from the 2016 announcement
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"And now I’m going to make this watermark…disappear.
…damn it."
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It’s not a watermark. It’s a solid…stain burning in on regional TV screens.
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His greatest magic trick was making millions of dollars disappear when his shares in Ten became worthless.
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This is probably a massive pie in the sky thought, but now that WIN is back with Nine, with Imparja’s continuing decline and WIN’s desire to expand further (consolidating all regional broadcasters under a WIN-led company), would WIN have any interest in purchasing Imparja to complete its ownership of all Nine affiliates (aside from NBN and Spencer Gulf).
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Just because it didn’t happen doesn’t mean that the information wasn’t right at the time. TVBB’s track record shows they’ve had stories that have hit more then they’ve missed by a considerable margin.
By all means, make your own assessment on whether you trust the site or not, but to make such an unequivocal claim on the back of a single article is disingenuous.
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I’d say nope. Imparja apparently makes no money. Don’t know if WIN would buy into a sub-market which they know it’ll be a tough slog.
WIN might find being a ‘service of last resort’ for the eastern states is an attractive proposition. Not to mention they are already on VAST so administration and infrastructure costs I imagine would be cheaper for them than a metro network. Maintaining those Imparja-owned transmitter sites dotted across the country is probably the deal breaker though.
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Only if the dollars can stack up.
As a partially taxpayer subsidised business, Imparja is already on the back foot with which they would have to find some bigger way to break even from investing money into buying the assets.
Not sure there is anything left to rationalise at Imaprja to cut costs further other than a few office and managerial jobs being subsumed by existing positions in Wollongong. Do they own their office in the Alice?
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… they’ve been “on the back foot” since they started 
Freda tried to get me to go there and run it in 1987 and I ran in the opposite direction … they had another go in 1996 and I went there and took a look, but things hadn’t really moved forward …
It is, but at least it’s not as big as the previous solid mappy between late 2016 & October 2018.
The question is… is Imparja a willing seller? SCA presumedly makes coin out of the region?
Perhaps someone else like WIN could run it efficiently with just a sole Sales Rep based in Alice Springs and another in Mt Isa. All other functions outsourced or relocated to Wollongong (like Traffic).
Imparja won’t be purchased by a commercial network due to it being a not-for-profit organisation/charity.
If it does generate a profit, it needs to be re-invested into the company or the other aboriginal organisations owned by the IMP shareholders.
I doubt that will get changed or even a sale agreed on by the shareholders.
Yes. It’s a good building too. IMP/CAAMA have recently sold the excess land behind the building though.
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Then what about the lines about 9Life not being avaibile from switchover and 5:30pm WIN News? Clearly, I’d except 9Life to be available from launch WIN has enough equipment they can use to launch it.
We’ve seen WIN poorly interrupt Ten’s metro news bulletins to cut into WIN News in the early days of Ten affiliation, so the article implies there might be a likely chance if WIN decides to poorly remove half of Millionaire Hot Seat in some markets so they can air their “local news” (SCA have special connections with Nine, which is why they can air the full show 30 minutes earlier). I’d rather they just start airing WIN News at 7pm like they did from 2014-2016 approx, and move ACA back to GEM or something like that.
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If by “special connections” you mean an affiliation agreement, sure.
WIN aired Sale of the Century/Temptation in the 5.30pm time slot for years, a full 90 minutes ahead of its 7pm time slot on Nine. I’m sure they can shift Hot Seat back half an hour to accommodate local news - something that is already done in selected Nine markets.
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