As explained above, it is a legacy of the Gold Coast falling in between the coverage areas of Brisbane and Richmond-Lismore, so it ended up with local translators for the Brisbane stations and the Lismore ones. When aggregation happened, because RTN8 had a local translator there then NBN and Prime ended up doing the same. So viewers ended up with six commercial channels.
Similar occurred on the Central Coast in NSW where they have both Newcastle/Northern NSW and Sydney stations, although IIRC the Ten affiliate (now WIN) has opted out of covering some of the central coast sites.
Which can be covered in the main WIN thread. The âvarious marketsâ that WIN operates its other Ten stations (not counting JVs) are the Griffith monopoly and the SA monopoly, I donât see threads specifically for WINâs Seven stations in those markets because thereâs no real sense in having one.
I disagree. There just hasnât been discussion about it. We have no issue if someone were to create a thread for Seven (WIN) discussion. I donât think talking about Seven or Ten stuff in a thread named Nine (WIN) would be right.
Very doubtful as Northern NSW is a large market revenue wise. And doubtful SCA has the money.
SCA were silly to sell in the first place, but the money offer from WIN must have been too good to pass up not knowing if TEN were still going to be a going concern or not, who knows?
If anything, WIN may seek to sell NRN to TEN?
Realistically though, would NRN make that much money compared to their competitors? I wouldâve thought that NBN & NEN have the lions share of TV ad revenue in Northern NSW, with NRN getting the dregs.
Itâs not enough to support a local news bulletin for Newcastle against 9NBN (even though theyâre happy to throw money at the wall in Tasmania against 7SCA).
I imagine a lot of 10 Regional stations donât do all that well financially including the multitude of minus figures on balance sheets for the joint ventures.
Considering WIN National sales look after Nine Northern NSW/NBN now, & like the WIN Newcastle office are moving in with NBN Newcastle, they might have moved into the NBN Coffs Office, though where might that be now, highly doubt WIN/NBN would stay at the SCA offices?
I havent read that anyone is âlookingâ to buy the NRN licence as such. I have read two articles from which the following can be drawn. SCA looks to lose almost $30 million a year in advertising revenue - around $200 million if they cannot secure the Seven affiliation in 2 years time. WIN has a 7 year deal with Nine. WIN has signed a 5 year deal for the WIN owned NRN licence. This indicates a reluctance to sell the NNSW operations to anyone.
Links to the articles are below for those that have not read them.
Thatâs misleading, because thatâs offset by paying significantly lower affiliation fees as well. According to SCA their bottom line will have minimal impact.
The claim was made in May - well before SCA did any deal - and the figure was based on some data analysis alone (Im guessing it could have been the difference between SCAâs ad revenue and WINâs)
