I know WIN aren’t particularly liked, but that’s the best thing that could’ve happened to Ten NNSW.
SCA are in deep financial trouble, they’re currently selling off as much of their assets as possible to reduce the debt.
I’ve said it before, & I still think SCA will tank in the next few years, & there’ll be fire sales all over the place.
Also if SCA radio keeps doing what Em at 2DAYFM did recently, Nine Entertainment won’t be helping or bailing SCA out any further, it could also cause problems with the SCA/Nine regional affiliation agreements, so NNSW is now clear of any problems that may arise, as Ten NNSW is no longer connected to SCA, & NBNTV is owned directly by Nine Entertainment.
I wonder what WIN will do in Newcastle, Ten is currently in the SCA Radio studios at Charlestown, but they’re moving out to new premises later in the year, will WIN buy the old studio complex & stay, or move Ten somewhere else?
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Bruce Gordon is considered a foreigner despite being an Australian citizen? The Bermudian location of a couple of his companies must be deemed foreign, I think, despite him owning them and his main holding company having a North Sydney address.
With the sale of NRN, could this finally push Southern Cross to switch GDS/BDN to Ten and SGS/SCN to Nine, aligning with the regional norm? Currently, Nine GDS/BDN is on 8, 80 and 88, while the rest of Southern Cross’ Nine stations are on 5, 50-56.
And if I’m correct, SGS/SCN dropped the “Southern Cross Ten” brand in favour of just ‘Ten’ not too long ago. Was it with the affiliate change, or pre-digital switchover?
It would serve no purpose ultimately. Viewers don’t care about ‘aligning’ with other broadcast areas otherwise everyone would be crying “Why isn’t Southern Cross on channel 7” “Why isn’t WIN HD on 13” etc etc
Well no if we’re still following what ‘was’ the FreeTV plan then the proper channels would be Ten Affiliate on 5 and Nine Affiliate on 8
WIN will need to deal with having their new NRN channels on 5, 50, 51, 52, 54 and 55 since, just like they wouldn’t swap with SCA, there is no way Nine is going to swap NBN’s channels for WIN
The regional affiliates were given different numbers to the metro networks to prevent signal overlap.
The LCN numbers were assigned to the regional networks based on their affiliation, they were not assigned collectively for affiliation alone (e.g. WIN, NBN and others were each assigned 8 because they affiliated with Nine, versus, the Nine affiliates are on and will always be on 8); otherwise, WIN would’ve been forced to move to 5.
I know the chances of this happening anytime soon are rather unlikely, but with the exception of areas (eg: Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, NSW Central Coast, Wollongong, etc.) which actually have significant overlap with the metropolitan TV broadcasts, the regional stations should just be allowed to use the same set of LCNs that the metro areas do.
But in areas like the Gold Coast all the stations have the same power and transmitter site so there is no difference in reception between the metro station and the regional.
I’d have preferred if the affiliates generally used the same LCNs as their network and just used others in overlap areas, but SCA told me that when WIN refused to swap LCNs (when in southern NSW/ACT/Vic/etc. SC Ten became Nine & WIN became the Ten affiliate) they’d considered using the 9 series LCNs but didn’t want to cause confusion in overlap areas (including possibly either SC9 or Nine metro getting high numbered LCNs - it’s inconsistent because it depends on signal strength at the time the tuning happens), so for consistency in their broadcast area, and for advertising (the affiliation change, e.g. NineOn5.com.au, & since) they decided to stick with the 5 series LCNs.
