Do we really have to go through the whole “don’t edit Wikipedia unless it’s confirmed” cycle again?
Sure, it is almost certain that it will rebrand to 7News, but the Wikipedia article shouldn’t be updated until it is confirmed.
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Make no mistake: writing your fantasies or future projections into a Wikipedia page is, at best, incredibly irritating.
At worst, it’s pure vandalism.
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I didn’t edit the Wikipedia article. It was clearly sarcasm.
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Riverland is based around Renmark and Loxton, South Australia, about 150-200 Km from Mildura.
South-East is based around Mt Gambier and the south-east of SA.
Spencer Gulf includes Port Augusta, Port Pirie, Whyalla, Port Lincoln etc.
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Well the only other regional licence area in SA is Riverland/Mt Gambier which is WIN solus territory. Seven will O&O the rest of SA - Metro, Spencer Gulf/Broken Hill and (indirectly) Seven Central for everywhere else. I don’t think it’ll be the end of the world
Also - assuming SWM are picking up the Nine and Ten affiliation in Spencer Gulf/Broken Hill?
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Good news is the change in ownership will trigger local content requirements in Spencer Gulf and Broken Hill! So at the very least they’ll get noodle updates, through it would be nice to see the full bulletin make a return (maybe even produced and presented out of Adelaide?)
Likewise, the noodle updates in Darwin and Central are now secured.
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So, I guess the remaining SCA10 stations that ADH was set to acquire will now go to Paramount to create a near-national Network 10 presence outside of the joint ventures — or will Seven West acquire and operate those licences alongside their existing networked stations once the deal closes?
The ownership of the Nine and 10 stations in Spencer Gulf and Broken Hill is tied to the ownership of the main Seven station. Unless Seven, Nine or 10 have any plans to change that on their own accord, Seven will likely be taking ownership of all three.
That area, like Eastern SA and Griffith, is too small to support three broadcasters, so one broadcaster takes responsibility for providing all three networks.
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10 Spencer Gulf/Broken Hill is the only one that isn’t a JV.
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It could be that perhaps SWM sells off the remaining SCA 10 stations over to Network 10. I couldn’t imagine Seven wanting to operate the Network 10 stations, let alone the Nine stations in the Spencer Gulf. Seven would probably want to offload the SCA Nine stations there to Nine, or if they don’t want it, Seven could possibly shut them down and save some cash.
Or perhaps a joint venture network could be formed where if Paramount takes ownership of the Network 10 stations in the Spencer Gulf, Seven and Network 10 could both form a JV for the Nine stations there, allowing Nine to continue broadcasting into the Spencer Gulf under a JV between Seven and Network 10, similar to the other joint venture stations (Network 10 stations) between Seven and WIN.
I think this would not be entertained until both SA markets are at least partially network owned, but it would be great to see.
They could be combined together like the other states back during aggregation to form one “Regional SA” market (not including the Remote Central parts of the state). Ideally, what should’ve happened in the beginning.
The market has largely consolidated around the three metro owners and this has only set them back $3.75m to complete the set
SWM is a plaything that gives Stokes a platform - anything of real value is owned by SGH (they probably have more valuable contracts to deliver concrete and excavators than anything the media arm is worth) .
which ones were they? The JV ones in Tasmania, Darwin and Remote Central Australia? I would guess SCA’s half-share of those will just go to Seven West Media.
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Good to see ADH shut out - Seven really got lucky here and likely ended up paying less than if they’d tried to out bid them - while there’s some cost centres with the regional assets, the Tassie license should be profitable from day one and even more so once the Devils start in the AFL.
Even better news for the existing SCA staff, a much better outcome than potentially be producing content for Newsmax. Hopefully there’s no significant cost savings trying to be had from efficiencies with the main network - I’d have thought SCA would be running a very lean operation already, but I suppose the one benefit of ADH is they would have lots more staff overheads than Seven will in operating these stations.
All round good news though.
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ADH never intended to buy SC 10 stations in regional Queensland, southern NSW / ACT or regional Victoria. They were only after the SC 7 stations only
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It’s update time for the trusty local content quota table! Now with a visual breakdown of triggered (and soon-to-be-triggered) stations 
Based on my understanding of the Broadcasting Services Act, in a monopoly market only the original station (Seven GTS/BKN) will have local quotas as the other stations (10 SGS/SCN and Nine GDS/BDN) were granted under Sections 38A (10) and 38B (Nine) which are exempt?
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Don’t think I saw this shared anywhere yesterday as part of the conversation about the ADH deal collapsing, from Mumbrella:
SCA’s regional TV licence numbers didn’t add up: ADH - Mumbrella
ADH, a conservative digital media operation founded by Bulfin in 2021, announced its intention to buy the licenses from SCA in February. SCA said the price was $3.75m in cash with further fee arrangements to take total deal value to $6.35m.
But according to Bulfin, who made the comments by text message, ADH could not accept the financial risks it uncovered during the deal process.
“The deeper we looked into this business, the more issues we uncovered—many of which had not been disclosed by SCA,” he wrote.
“Some posed serious risks to daily television operations and the long-term viability of the business.”
“Those were risks we could not accept.”
“As due diligence progressed, it became increasingly difficult to trust the information provided. The numbers simply didn’t add up.”
In a statement to Mumbrella, an SCA spokesperson rejected ADH’s characterisation of the deal collapse.
“SCA conducted itself with professionalism, transparency, and good faith. While we acknowledge ADH is new to television, they ultimately failed to meet the obligations and deadlines they agreed to—which is why the deal didn’t proceed. We wish ADH all the best with their future media endeavours.”
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Sooooo…ADH didn’t do enough due diligence?
So with WIN TV crossed out on that trigger list, does that mean WIN have the ability now to stop providing local news bulletins and noodle updates altogether? If so, several regional areas will lose their local WIN News bulletins, including statewide editions.
And because the trigger event doesn’t require WIN to provide even noodle updates anymore (at least from what I’m seeing on that image), WIN now has the right to basically just convert these stations into plain dirty repeaters of their metropolitan counterparts, similar to what’s happened with Seven in Griffith and Mount Gambier/Riverland.
No. You’re reading too much into that file.
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