9life has been delayed to allow WIN to complete their contractual obligation to Sky News
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Efforts should have gone into moving a lot of these transmitter sites to satellite when the digital switchover occured
I don’t understand why the regionals aren’t pushing for reform in this space - most if not all have exposure to these remote licence areas
How many of those remote sites do they pay for? Many are operated by local groups (usually the council). Do the government provide funding for the others? If not, in some areas it would be cheaper for the broadcasters to turn off terrestrial and pay for everyone in the town to get VAST installed.
Not that I’m aware of - I do know of at least one council who (at the time of the switchover) elected to subsidize a town to go to satellite rather then upgrade their transmitter to digital
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Imparja the company can’t be sold, but there would be no reason why Imparja couldn’t sell the licence and wind themselves up. It would just require the shareholders to agree.
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This doesn’t work for news. For example:
“Tonight’s news is brought to you by Furphy Refreshing Ale. Our top story tonight, a family of four was killed by a drunk driver on the Hume Highway last night.”
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Put’s a whole new meaning to ‘WIN Television’. 
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was the journalist reporting about social media? Because I think that’s the point that was being made that the commercial placement can be critical against a related news story. Twitter logos on ABC is not the same thing
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How is that the same as the example given?
It’s not sponsored or paid for, they don’t actively direct people to go there.
It’s a free social media platform and is universally used to promote journalists Twitter accounts as a source of up to date information.
Is it because they’re publicly funded, or just your general dislike for the ABC?
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… the Twitter logo was placed on all reporter supers … ABC News did stories about social media, so yes there would have been occasions where it was “related” … and any commercial placement on any ABC program, let alone news, is perceived to be a problem under Section 25 of the ABC Act which got David Hill and Paddy Conroy shown the door in 1995 …
Has this been confirmed or are we (not unreasonably) putting 2+2 together?
… neither you nor I know that for a fact
on the contrary, all ABC on-air staff were directed to use Twitter and to promote its use … when I rejoined the ABC as an on-air presenter on Local Radio in 2011, I received an email from the state program director advising me that he had established an account for me on the ABC’s TweetDeck and instructing me to sign-up for a personal Twitter account, “tweet something every day” and promote it on my radio program
… I do wish people wouldn’t make stupid assumptions about people they don’t know … it just makes them look foolish …
Bordering on conspiracy theory shit here mate.
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nope simple fact because we don’t
Correct, yet you make the inference.
You can appreciate how raising an odd gripe about a (presumably former) employer in a completely unrelated thread doesn’t come across as constructive.
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… if you bothered checking history, you would know that the ABC was investigated for back-door sponsorship in 1995 by an enquiry led by George Palmer QC and was found guilty … as a result, managing Director David Hill and Director Television Paddy Conroy were shown the door … so its not “inference” it’s a “fact” that this has happened … has it happened again? we don’t know for sure, hence my perfectly reasonable comment …
OK we’ve all had a say, let’s bring this back to topic
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Noticed lately that WIN have been airing a lot more Adelaide ads in the Riverland compared to normal, almost overtaking the Mount Gambier ads
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Not just patching through the dirty Adelaide feeds due to a lack of local advertising?