Where is Riverland? 
Both the Griffith license and the Seven SA market (Riverland, Mount Gambier / South East) license are controlled by WIN.
WIN have a supplementary monopoly license in those 2 areas meaning they control 7, 9 and 10. Seven would have to purchase these from WIN but then control all three stations in each area.
It could be purchased for next to nothing I would imagine. Wouldn’t be be much profit there.
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that’s awesome news! definitely more comfortable with a Seven sale rather than ADH….
so once this goes through, does this mean SCA has fully exited the TV business?
Yes
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Yep - WIN still controls the Riverland, South East SA, and Griffith in NSW.
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Seven buying more dead and dying assets. Poor Ryan must be looking at what Kerry is doing and crying into his breakfast.
Clearly Tasmania was the money maker for Seven in this deal and would still be very profitable.
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There are some ways to fix this:
- Basically collapse these solus areas into much larger license area - Griffith goes ro Southern NSW, Mildura into Regional Victoria, create a larger Regional South Australia and merge those license into there, or collapse them into the remote license area and Imparja goes bye-bye.
- Seven could put these into NPC Media, and Nine could buy the WIN solus linese OR have NPC run hem (like how ACE runs 2UE but Nine owns them). The solus stationc could operate as one operation with not many staff I’m imaginging.
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Did some homework. And yes WIN still operate the three commercial feeds in the Riverland region under the old RTS license.
What happens to the JV licenses for the 10 signal in Darwin and Tasmania? Are these just going to be operated by Seven and Win?
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Tasmania will be Seven and WIN. Darwin will be Seven and Nine.
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But why didn’t ADH acquire some of SCA TV stations? Why not? Why did ADH made a successful bid in the first place?
But for how long? Wouldn’t the investment be better in something to strengthen their position with younger Australians who aren’t watching FTA?
sounds like ADH have not been able to complete the terms of the sale
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I think we can all read between the lines. They didn’t have the cash they promised.
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Calls for Smaller Licence Area Mergers in South Australia as i’m Worried Spencer Gulf and Broken Hill Guided by SWM Alone Would’nt work.
In this day of age it should just be metro and regional, one each per state and any localised news services continue as is but maybe with some newly revised boundaries. Doesn’t make sense to have all these markets when it doesn’t work like that anymore.
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Highly doubt it. Given seven has not launched or reintroduced local news for the areas that used to be served by prime I don’t think seven will be in a hurry to launch a service in Darwin anytime soon. Not just yet anyway. But who knows what the future may hold. But not just yet.
Bring on a rebrand to 7NEWS Tasmania! And also maybe launch the channel stream on 7plus in glorious HD while you’re at it, SWM! I reckon Seven will be celebrating today! With ADH’s acquisition attempts failed, this is exactly what Seven wanted for their nationwide coverage! Also put the bulletins on 7plus if you must!
For the Tasmania and Darwin stations, this won’t be so much of an issue, but the Spencer Gulf? Seven can control the Seven stations there easily, but I don’t think they’ll want anything to do with Nine and Ten on the Gulf. I say offload the Nine SCA station there to Nine, and 10 Spencer Gulf to Network 10. Easy.
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Well now edit it to say it’ll rebrand to 7NEWS Tasmania haha.
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