Except at 6pm Sun-Fri 
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you mean ditching Ten SD for Ten HD as they are worried they will probably lose viewers and be a huge backlash
Hopefully 
Ten HD will be available in the Gold Coast and Central Coast since they are official overlap areas and both the metropolitan Ten signal and SC10 signal are broadcast, but why is Wollongong in that list? Ten doesnāt broadcast into Wollongong and itās not an overlap area - unless theyāre suggesting that people in Wollongong try to pick up a fringe signal from Sydney? Or that SC10 will broadcast HD only in the overlap markets?
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What viewers? 
Although as they claim 90% of the audience can receive an MPEG4 broadcast arguably the majority of their audience would prefer the HD channel. What would benefit Ten is an automated HD channel swap - donāt know if Foxtel do it but here Sky automatically replace the SD versions of a channel with the HD version if it is available.
the HD channel on Foxtel gets swapped - LifeStyle for example is SD 106 and HD 106 (with HD viewers getting the SD version on 206)
Same for Nine - SD 100 and HD 100 (HD viewers get SD on 209)
Southern Cross Tenās FB page is here.
Start to message them and put pressure on them to carry Ten HD
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Foxtel donāt swap Nineās HD and SD service like they do for their own. Nine SD is on 100 and HD is on 209 - at least not on the cable service I have. (I suspect they try to bury these new FTA channels as best they can 
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Already done a personal message yesterday Kick Itā¦ they havenāt even read it yet , doesnāt say āSeenā. I sent off an email to the office off their website too. No response.
I would like to see an official statement from them about HD . All we have at the moment on the internet is what Ten understands Southern Cross Media is doing. Win shortly after Nine HD, announced a statement.
Here are the details for each office , phone number, email addresses etc . Just click the area you live in.
All those local offices are sales offices, they wonāt be able to help. I suggest everyone contact Canberra - that is corporate HQ for the whole Southern Cross Ten group. That is where the executives are based who will be making i decision on HD
No point emailing Cairns, Lismore or Ballarat.
Or you can contact Southern Cross Austere CEO Grant Blackley here
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yeah I was referring to satellite - I canāt remember which is which when it comes to cable!
Realistically, many people in the Illawarra would probably only receive the local stations (due to the escarpment blocking the signal from Sydney, etc.) and even those who can receive Sydney stations probably stick to the local channels most of the time.
Same deal the other way round. While I could sometimes receive reception of the Illawarra channels on both analogue and digital in a previous location, Iāve never been able to receive any reliable signal of Illawarra TV in the nearly five years Iāve been in my current location of Sydney - all the locals from Willoughby/Artarmon/Gore Hill (including TVS when it was running) and thatās it really.
Yep. As Iām sure we all know by now, Foxtel does try and bury the new FTA channels on obscure LCNs. Case in point, Eleven is on 131 but it really should be on 111 if not for a certain Foxtel channel using that number! 
I suspect that Foxtel will either not carry Ten HD on any service or will just run it at 210 (or whatever number that One is currently at) on Foxtel cable with Ten SD still on 110 while One SD will be buried on some obscure LCN amongst the other multichannels. Customers with satellite will probably get the āthereās not enough spaceā line as a reason for not being able to get Ten HD/One SD.
How many Foxtel cable viewers, even those with access to HD actually actively seek out the current HD simulcasts? My guess is not many.
Foxtel will not carry TEN HD on satellite because TEN wonāt pay for it. Itāll be on cable, because of the way those STBs get their signals.
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Just wondering, when did Ten start promoting the first era of Ten HD in 2007? How far apart was the launch date? Just curious, it was all those years ago!
Was for a couple weeks I can remember before launch. I remember the breakaway programming and my aunt brought a Full HD LCD soon after launch and remember watching National Geographic docos on Ten HD on it, I knew I had to upgrade my crappy SD plasma TV.
I fondly remember their breakaway Thursday night programming dedicated to Sci Fi with Battlestar Galactica the highlight.
Wikipedia says TEN HD was officially announced on 14 September 2007 and launched on 16 December 2007.
That sounds about right, Ten HD even got a report on the news on the same night it was announced (or the night after?) judging by this upload from Moe:
Flash forward to 2016 and I didnāt see any mention about the upcoming launch of Ten HD on the news last night. Has Ten even been airing any promos for the new incarnation of Ten HD? Probably not.
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That kind of channel swapping is part of the VAST service. When you register your set-top boxās physical address, your local ABC and SBS channels are assigned LCN 2,21,22,etc while the rest are assigned to 221,222,etc. If you change your physical address, the LCNās change again so your most local channels are at the top of the list. There may be a way for broadcasters to utilise a similar method for DVB-T services but I highly doubt equipment in the market now would know how to handle it. They would need to develop a standard, probably as a mandated specification for Freeview devices only. Would it be worth the effort, just so you can see Ten HD on 10 instead of 13?