SCA have been trying to get out of TV for quite a while and WIN cannot have 9 programming in the NNSW market because 9 own NBN TV in that market.
Mildura is far smaller than regional WA in terms of population and probably feeling the pinch a lot more from 3 commercial channels.
Also, being the smallest population, Mildura could also be being used as a test case for what could happen elsewhere.
Iām in agreement that there is no universal right, but at some point people need to have freedom of choice. I personally donāt think it is a universal right to have all the sports on the anti siphoning list on there ( but thatās because I donāt like sport) and I have never understood the significance or appeal of the Stawell Gift. Again it comes down to a right to choose whether you can or canāt watch it, and in some may regard these as institutions.
I think it is now a wait and see what happens. I think Mildura may get a bit of a marketing program from Foxtel trying to entice viewers to sign up. Foxtel maybe able to get around the metro station blackouts for 10 if there is no local operator.
This is ridiculous. Whatās this theory based on?
They have choice. A lot. Even small towns in Australia have given from 2 channels to 15 or so plus billions more options on demand on line and via streaming. Itās literally peak TV
I have had another thought that I donāt think anyone else has written, but could WIN and 7 looking to (at least in the long term) close down operations and have Mildura moved to VAST entirely.
This could be logical given operational costs and limited revenue streams in such a small market and licences for those markets, although probably not worth much could be written off as a tax loss.
I think some of the thoughts I have seen, above could be suited to a post like the future of television.
Canāt help but think that 3 networks in the JV markets are effectively done now, they exist on such a flawed model - relying on the other two licence holders to own and operate the channel was always going to end up in a situation where the third channel (whatever affiliation it became) would be the unwanted step-child.
It will be interesting to see what the Government does from here - I suspect weāll hear calls from many areas for the Government to step in to ensure continuity of service via some kind of assistance. The current Government has spoken about the importance of FTA TV in this term and has been willing to protect the industry (especially with sports rights), but faced with what could be the most significant change for some time what do they do?
I think we will see most if not all markets going 2 commercial station models with multi channels merged unless we have government legislative intervention to allow there to be a Foxtel based FTA channel (possibly buying Ten at fire sale prices). Also I think ABC and SBS will end up as a 6 channel network with ABC, NITV and SBS main channels remain as is, with the others merged to create 3 other channels
7 and 9 in their capital city transmission JV TxA quickly activated a clause in the deed there that allowed the others to buy out anyone who went into receivership for $1. 7 even sent 10 the one dollar taped to a letter in the mail after they went into administration - 10 eventually went to court and got some $$$$ for their share of the asset but are now dependent on 7&9 for transmission. If 10ās payment for using TxA was ever late the circuit breakers would get thrown straight away.
With a fixed advertising pie, 7 & 9(or WIN) would stand to pick up most of 10ās revenue if they ever went out of business including in Mildura
Others have tried to make this point in this thead too: Not everyone has this choice. High-speed internet is not universal. In some areas of the backblocks, linear TV and Radio is the only form of in-home media entertainment. I guess theyāre served by VAST, so, I guess the easy answer is to shut all TV off in the Mildura market and add it to the VAST group?
As I mentioned above, perhaps WIN and 7 could be trying to shutdown services in Mildura as, letās face it, even without the Ten impost, it is highly unlikely they would be making much, possibly even operating at a loss for the provision of their own services
At this point, there is not much difference between what is being provided by Seven and WIN, and what is on VAST.
None of the stations have local news bulletins or updates, and if they did flick the switch to VAST, they still keep three Melbourne bulletins (ABC, Seven and 10).
Only issue arising would be local businesses losing ad spots.
We probably need a seperate discussion forum on this. But Iād like to have a thread to chat about what tv looks like in 10 years from now.
I have no doubt in my mind that live news and live sport will still be live and free. But where? - thatās the big question.
Is there a chance that Mildura market could be converted in a solus market similar to mount gambier, port Augusta and broken hill with WIN picking up all of 7, 9 and 10?
But 7 introduced local news noodle updates in Mildura and do they still air the updates now?
The licence should go to BCV - it just makes logical sense ā¦ uniformity with the rest of Victoria ā¦ Iād be very surprised if that did not occur.
AFAIK they only get national news updates and the odd weather update.
Seven started producing local news updates for Mildura at the start of the year, after ACMA pinged them for not doing so after buying Prime. They receive the same amount of local updates as Ballarat, Bendigo, Gippsland.
So can you confirm Seven has dumped the Mildura news updates that they just started airing from the start of the year.