Would assume that the news updates would continue (highly doubt we’d see any new/different news offerings), but doubtful that they would continue to be produced in Tasmania as they are now - beyond that who knows
Could Sky News take over production of them? Especially if 7 buy the Tasmanian affiliate and there’s no more studio facilities. Also could Sky News appear on 10 in capital cities? The opportunities are endless.
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Possible, although the mentality (when I worked for SCA) was always that these news updates are quick and dirty, and done on the cheap and done only for ‘compliance’ as it’s not profitable
I could see Ten having a similar view, and continuing on by producing something themselves as quickly and cheaply as possible (I assume that paying Sky to do it would cost more in the long run)
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Not while Paramount/CBS owns the metro 10’s they’re not!
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However the current situation is also that if someone wants to advertise nationally on 10, they need to go to 10 for the metros and SCA for the regionals. Far too often the regionals then get left off because it’s too much work for the agency/client for a much smaller number of viewers.
Locally SCA would still do TV sales as they’re the ones with the staff on the ground locally.
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What about Channel 10 in Tasmania ?
Not sure as it’s half owned by both WIN and SCA.
I remember Grant Blackley coming to speak to us in Canberra back in 2018 and he said that this was precisely the issue with SCA TV.
He named several big companies (not worth repeating) and said he devoted a lot of his time just to going and meeting with their people in their head offices, to discuss the fact that most of them spent a lot of money on TV advertising, but their ad spend in regional areas was exactly zero. These are big national brands mind you that do sell a lot of goods/services in places like Canberra or Wollongong
Initiatives like boomtown were supposed to help address this and reverse it, I assume that largely failed, as WIN has gone a different way (merging much of their sales with Nine) and I assume that Prime is now or will be integrated sales-wise with Seven
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Gecko channel now available on Ch57 in SC10 areas. Must be because of the recent renewal of the affiliation agreement.
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Can confirm Gecko has replaced TVSN on Ch 57 in Spencer Gulf SA.
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Replaced? Hmm. Either the deal they had with TVSN conveniently ran out at the same time or it expired ages ago and SCA just left it running? A bit odd.
I wonder if they did the same thing in Darwin?
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Entirely possible given the changeover occurred at the start of a new financial year.
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I would assume the same for Darwin, Gecko replacing TVSN on Ch75, but can’t confirm.
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From Mediaweek:
What is the plan for the TV business?
“In the past we ran a sale process and the result was we thought we would be best placed to continue to run that [TV] asset ourselves. In the last six months the market has faced headwinds. In terms of our major affiliate partner 10, we have been disadvantaged that the other two commercial networks – Nine and Seven – have had a single sell. People wanting to buy the overall audience have to buy metro through 10 and then regionally through SCA.
“That is something we are looking to address and it is one of the reasons why we only extended our affiliation agreement by six months. We are working with 10 in earnest to try and provide a one-stop shop to agencies and national advertisers. That is something we will achieve in the coming months.”
Source:
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Yes it will. Sky News and SBN are both not on 10 metro multiplexes. I presume NewsCorp would have approached Paramount to have Sky on 10 metro but got the reply to GFY.
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ishoptv is not on Seven Metro multiplexes but is on Seven Regional and are owned by the same company.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if 7 metros carry ishoptv any time soon.
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Probably not straight away, as 10/Paramount would inherit pre-existing contracts to air SKY or SBN that have a future expiry date.
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They would have to honour the length of the agreement though, so may not necessarily do as you say if they then see the extra revenue opportunity by maintaining status quo.
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I found this link. I wonder if and how it will affect SCA, the 7 network and the 10 network and others in general? Radio wars: ARN makes shock bid for SCA
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