We’re heading into the Final 24 Hours of WIN as a Channel 9 Affiliate.
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I have a feeling an agreement will be reached for West Digital Television today and Tassie will be left in the dark for maybe a day or two. The media, sports bodies and Nine themselves have already warned us about it. It’s as if they know something we don’t. It will be the most difficult of all negotiations with SCA being involved. We also know how WIN plays these games. If they can disrupt Nine in their largest joint-venture market, they will. Let’s see what eventuates, but my money’s on no Nine for Tassie on Friday.
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Given there will no presence of Ten News airing in Tasmania unlike most other regions for the lead-in of local 6pm bulletins, it will be interesting to see if they choose not to bother taking a similar Ten News presentation style if that’s what they decide on. They may decide to be totally different to the rest yet again in the market.
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QLD is the only one I see having issues in this way (It has a very dodgy knockoff of the Nine style newsdesk).[/quote]As does the Tasmanian bulletin. A Nine News style desk was installed when they moved into the ABC Hobart building a couple years ago.
I have previously gone on the record of saying a last minute deal would be done for TDT, but unfortunately, I’m thinking the same thing now and that TDT will go blank or just start showing a static image saying something along the lines of “Channel 9 is coming soon to channel 5” or a Nine promo loop. It does seem WIN aren’t going to budge on this and SCA will ultimately be unable to come to a deal in time.
One things for certain, there will be a lot of angry complaints directed at Nine and SCA from local viewers down here (even though they aren’t to blame, but most viewers wouldn’t know that, of course).
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Here’s another montage of presentation elements and promos aired on WIN during the day on their 2nd last day as a Nine affiliate.
Note that this was recorded in an area where ACA airs at 7pm on WIN rather than WIN News.
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What happens in S-E South Australia (Mt Gambier/Riverland)?
WIN have a monopoly.
But as we all know, they previously shared programing of Seven/Ten on one station & Nine on another.
As of the past few years though, is been Ten SA, WIN (digital) & Seven SA.
So does Ten programming move to the digital (WIN) station? Or will WIN just keep it on their Ten SA station? If so, will WIN (digital station) even be airong from Friday?
Presumably WIN, the primary channel of all 13 channels they operate in Eastern SA, will change to Ten affiliation and their current Ten SA-based channel will change to a Nine SA-based channel. They probably won’t have to do much else other than change the LCNs on the multi-channels since they operate them all.
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WIN’s primary channel in the South East & Riverland in SA will change from Nine to Ten affiliation & the current Ten SA station will change to Channel Nine.
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https://twitter.com/bruceberts/status/748307814569766913
Posted by VIC news presenter Bruce Roberts on Twitter about half an hour ago, Robbo from Studio 10 has stopped by the Gong studios, I can see a Studio 10 microphone on the desk, was there a story about the change on Studio 10 this morning?
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It’s embassing that Australia’s self proclaimed biggest TV network doesn’t even have a news set - just a green curtain.
There’s nothing embarrassing about being able to change your set without the massive costs of building one - especially when you change your style every couple of years - get with the program - no need to spend money for the sake of it - Just like so many news bulletin sets around the world. The more money spent on sets, the less available for news operations.
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No cost to remove the nine-esque set and gain a ten looking set immediately
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Here’s hoping that actually happens tomorrow night, we’ll soon see.
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I presume WIN will be working hard to have on-air ‘pop ups’ to remind viewers about
(e.g.) Family Feud on LCN 81 & 82, Neighbours on LCN 82, etc.
Also seeing as 6pm (local news) will become a massive time slot for WIN & one they’ll be working hard to retain/attract viewers.
Have a question on channel 5 (10 Mildura) they have The Project listed In the TV Guide from 11:30pm to 12:30am, If the switch is at midnight what’s going to happen the listing dose not sound accurate.
Wow - The Project running for 13 hours, seems a bit much 
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Opps typo.
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