Ten News First Content and Appearance (2015-Sept 2020)

I dare say Bruce is hedging his bets that he can swoop in once the reach rule is abolished and snag a FTA network for a bargain basement price. WIN then goes nationwide.

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This is the darkest timeline.

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I can NEVER see WIN go full FTA in my lifetime :slight_smile:

“bad”, “worse”, “disastrous”.
They haven’t told us about “catastrophic” :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Acropolis Now marathons in primetime
 can’t wait.

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I actually wouldn’t mind if WIN went national, as long as they matured and had a consistent brand and no big coverups, nice and clean.

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Some highlights of tonight’s edition of Ten Eyewitness News Melbourne:

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen them use the 2 screens on the right of the set. Would be good to see them be used in a similar fashion to Seven News Sydney.

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I do love the Melbourne set. That backdrop is a beauty (and I’m not generally a fan of cityscapes)

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Ageee, the Melbourne backdrop is fantastic.

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Some tweets:

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Perhaps the biggest marketing effort for Ten Eyewitness News for some time.

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It might be business as usual at Ten Eyewitness News: First At Five for now, but unfortunately I would probably still expect a major announcement about the future of the news service to be made by the network before the end of the year.

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If any new owner comes in and shuts everything down and ceases all Australian output for imported shit watch revenues decline and the network will be even worse off.

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There are strict Australian content quotas, so won’t happen.

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If worst case scenario no one woulda to but ten how can it keep operating ?

They collect $350 million a year in revenue. Their costs are more than that. So it’s at a loss. But clearly there is money to be made if the business settings are right.

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Some insight from Ten’s coverage of its entry into administration:

  • Deals with ‘American Networks’ (presumably CBS and FOX) are already being negotiated down to half their original price and administrators may sell them off.

  • There is “no chance” the channel will go to black.

  • The most likely scenario is that Ten will be recapitalised and relisted on the market within 60 days.

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Well they could just start showing the NZ version of Family Feud and The Project


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