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

[AustralianAerial]

99% sure we’ve done that before. There’s discussion following on from this post in the Imparja thread:

Imparja Television

Interesting reading from Imparja’s submission to the ACMA closed captioning review. They are losing money - 9GO!, 9GEM and the joint venture Ten channels run at a loss. The full submission, which mentions that their lack of local News is due to cost: http://www.acma.gov.au/~/media/Content%20Projects%20and%20Policy/Issue%20for%20comment/IFC%2014%202016/Sub%2003%20-%20Imparja.docx (Word)

and this in the SCA Nine thread:

Nine (Southern Cross)

Re Nine acquiring TDT - can’t happen due to the type of licence they both operate under - when aggregation was introduced across larger markets, the only way for regions like Tasmania, Mildura and Darwin could have another license was to allow for two station markets where there are two different owners to apply, either separately or jointly, to operate a digital-only third station. These are known as “Section 38B” licences, and were created by the Broadcasting Services Amendment. For Nine to ac…