Surely WIN will have to stop claiming to be “Australia’s largest regional commercial television network”.
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I don’t see why they can’t still claim that title, if anything, it’ll be even more true with SCA getting out of regional TV in most areas.
And as 7, 9 and 10 themselves are not (exclusively) ‘regional networks’.
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Nine buys WIN out, presumably.
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Nope. They want to go all in on Nine.
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Sounds expensive and I doubt they’d want to share office space with a rival (though it’s not unheard of). I wouldn’t put it past them to outsource (or it may be part of the deal with SCA/WIN) in the short term, but no doubt they’d move to their metro newsrooms eventually (and maybe PH Canberra - my wishful thinking).
Only other thing that might be interesting is if they’ve picked up any NNSW office space/old studios from WIN as part of the land gained in the deal but I think it’s been widely canvassed that everything of much value was sold off long ago.
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“We’re Australia’s only regional commercial television network!” 
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There’s still SCA, but will only be Tasmania, parts of South Australia, Darwin and Remote Eastern.
And Imparia can’t call themselves a network since its only a sole license.
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This is the end of the Network 10 NRN simulcast on the Gold Coast. Along with this, no more WIN News updates for Northern NSW/Gold Coast. They will be morphed into 10 News First updates along with the Regional NSW/VIC/ACT/QLD stations.
we don’t know that? Seven and Nine both maintain simulcast of their Brisbane and NNSW stations on the Gold Coast.
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Would depend how many employees would transition across to Ten after this. I’m sure there will be some agreements on maintaining staff numbers after the purchase, but I’d assume the majority of WIN’s news staff are in Wollongong - given their full local news regions only have one or two reporters in market, I doubt anyone physically works for NRN in a ‘newsroom’.
I suppose the SCA deal might be a little bit more complex, but both are still subject to various final approvals, so dunno which will close first.
Ten have a lot of work now to be able to take over the operations for regional stations - so I wouldn’t be surprised if they set a transition date for July 1 or something for the lot, plus that would help calculations for the revenue share portions of both these sales.
The difficulty of that makes me wonder if Ten using MediaHub for their regional playout might be an under the table bonus part of this deal?
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You could combine them on one signal, just make one really low bandwidth or a datacast to keep those who want the NNSW news going…just have the Brisbane licensed translators going.
I’d argue though that a possible reason for this would be because otherwise there would be 2 sets of 10 channels via WIN NNSW and 10 Brisbane + for some areas where they can only get the one set of channels, and vice-versa.
In saying that, I doubt much will change if the networks will still be able to generate revenue from the Gold Coast market
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If I recall correctly, WIN used that slogan long before they acquired the NNSW license back in 2017. “Only one commercial TV network broadcasts in every state in the country”, well almost!
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Only places that can’t get a QLD signal are where there are no signals like at the bottom of some hinterland valleys.
Everyone in QLD should be able to get a signal from a QLD transmitter - SE Brisbane, Currumbin, Hinterland or Mt Tamborine.
Likewise, except for a handful of unusual cases, no-one in NSW needs to rely on a QLD transmitter. They should all be able to get a signal from a NSW site.
Lots in NSW down along the coast to Kingscliff have antennas for the Gold Coast, but they could also receive Mt Nardi if they tried.
Viewing Gold Coast channels from far Northern NSW would be a challenge in daylight savings when Queensland is one hour behind. I know that on the Victorian-SA border there are lots of antenna installs for the SA (South East via Mt Burr) and Victorian (Western Vic/Ballarat via either Mt Dundas or Mt Lawloit) channels. Advantages of that are different time zones and different AFL games simultaneously (eg. if an Adelaide home game is shown in SA and a Vic team v Vic team is shown in Victoria). Also good for news junkies where you can watch both states’ news.
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Yes it would be problematic because of the time difference, yet lots down to Kingscliff and around Banora Pt seem to mainly have antennas pointing north, probably going back to pre-aggregation when they were used to getting 8 channels from the Gold Coast. Perhaps they get fortuitous reception off the side of the annena from Mt Nardi.
In Northern NSW and on the Gold Coast, yes.
Was it ever there though? 
No, the WIN Noodle News updates on NRN are produced in Wollongong.
Dare say when and if TEN take ownership. Como will take over production.
Will they also be responsible for producing local news noodle updates in regional Queensland, southern NSW, ACT and regional Victoria as well?
Neither deal had closed yet, and where any of the news updates they’ll need to provide will come from is speculation at best currently.
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