If Seven acquired GTS/BKN, I assume they would also get the licences to retransmit the Nine and Ten stations in that area. I know they partly own some supplementary/JV channels affiliated to competitors, but would they want to carry the channels of both commercial competitors in that market? Legally, would they be obliged to?
They could onsell them but who would buy them?
Theyâd actually cost money through affiliation and transmitter fees to a small audience so theyâd be broadcasting at a loss so Iâd say the amount of possible buyers would be close to zero.
Seven might as well hang onto them. Nine and Seven have joint ownership in some 10 affiliated stations in WA, Darwin and Mildura etc. Iâm sure it doesnât really bother them.
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Exactly right, in such a small market I donât see why it would bother Seven at all to be putting out Nine and Ten signals in addition to Seven, and splitting them up in any way for such a small market would probably be unsustainable anyhow.
As you say, Nine jointly owns Ten Darwin for example, surely itâs not much different to that.
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My understanding from working at SCA previously was that sales for Spencer Gulf works a bit differently because of its unique position/circumstances
As in, ad clients/customers can easily pay to have their ad to air at a certain time across all of Seven/Nine/Ten at the same time (as far as thatâs practicable, etc.), seems like changing this would cause disruption and would probably hurt everyone more than just keeping the whole thing glued together as it is.
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If Seven were to acquire GTS/BKN (7) from SCA, what is to stop Seven selling GDS/BDN (9) and possibly also SGS/SCN (10) to WIN? And in a swap deal, acquire SES/RTS (7) from WIN? Messy being WIN may have to change SES/RTS back to a Nine station as SES is the main ACMA licence with SDS/RDS (9) and MGS/LRS (10) being the supplementary licence stations?
However, I assume, like Tasmania for SCA, the Seven affiliation for SES/RTS (7) is the only WIN station that makes money in that market being it screens AFL with WIN unlikely to come to a sell/swap agreement. And WIN would end up with the remaining 9 & 10 stations that make little or no money if they let go of Seven programming?
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Because everyone agrees that these markets are not commercially viable with multiple operators. This type of agreement would just result in two companies making a loss, instead of one making a small (if any) profit
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The issue with the GTS/BKN market is more the other direction - structuring a sale in a way that ensures they donât have to split it up.
The supplemental licenses allow an exemption to the 1 station rule just for the owner that was granted the license, I think carving off part of SCAâs TV operation to be sold on its own would be I hope straight forwardly a change of control, but I think given how unimportant this market is I think the ACMA would be willing to be flexible.
An emergency bushfire warning has been in place for over an hour for a residential area on Tasmaniaâs East Coast tonight. Not a single ticker warning on any of the 3x TV commercial networks (like they usually would do).
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Particularly interesting since the news the other night ran a story from the TFS and other agencies about not relying on the internet as your source for information in an event like a bushfire in the wake of the Optus outage and if communications networks are down. TV and radio were mentioned as alternative sources.
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SCA putting in the hard yards on radio luckily. PD on the air with a message in the ad breaks on HIT & MMM HBA.
TV playout clearly just asleep at the wheelâŚ
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You canât sell something if thereâs no buyer. Youâre assuming that both Seven and WIN would be interested in doing such a thing, which, for the reasons outlined several times on this thread, they wouldnât.
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SES and RTS are the licenses for the Nine service. It reverted back from Seven to Nine at the time of analogue switch off.
Although this doesnât change the points others have made about the viability of selling or swapping licenses.
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I wonder if this was intentional?
Great work from the 7 Tas traffic dept tonightâŚ
Sound on.
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Noticed that SCA has changed how it handles live AFL on Thursday and Friday nights in Darwin and Regional NT during daylight savings.
In the past when there is AFL, they would go from the delayed feed to the live feed, skipping news.
Now, in Darwin, at 3pm, they instert a repeat of The Zoo, before crossing to the live Melbourne feed for The Chase Australia, Seven News and AFL
On Central North, at 4pm, they go to the live Melbourne feed for The Chase Australia, Seven News (Melbourne instead of QLD), and AFL.
Thought it would be worth noting.
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Next Friday, SCA in NT and Tasmania will show the Royal Childrenâs Hospital Good Friday Appeal from 12pm AEDT and also the AFL match between North Melbourne and Carlton. Tasmania will still get its Nightly News at 7pm.
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Do they usually show it, or did they previously switched to the Sydney feed for the day (except for AFL of course)?
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It happened last year as well.
As another member explained at the time:
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Could of just delayed the full Seven Sydney schedule by half an hour, then add some extra home shopping overnight to make up the money.
Or alternatively, show the news at half-time. Itâs Good Friday, so I assume not much is happening.
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Melbourne Weekender will also be shown on Southern Cross in NT and Tasmania at 5.30pm Sundays from April 14.
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Canât see that itâs been mentioned above, but have noted here in Tasmania where I am at the moment, 7mate is still SD, when itâs now HD in the eastern mainland states.
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