WIN Corporation

Television Regional and Community Television
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WIN went black in Mackay during the NRL match. It didn’t come back on until this morning.

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Wrong thread my dudes.

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I think because the discussion crossed both Nine and Ten WIN outlets this maybe was a catch-all thread but you’re right this thread is more about WIN the company rather than the broadcasting outlets.

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A widespread WIN outage may be corporate related: WIN and Prime used to have a JV called BTS Networks that did their transmitter and microwave link maintenance. When Seven bought Prime they pulled out of BTS Networks and pulled their links out of the WIN owned Digital Distribution Australia and moved to Telstra.

BAI Communications now do both WIN and Seven Regionals maintenance and probably even DDA’s maintenance. If the issue is widespread and affecting WIN only it may be a DDA issue or even a problem back at their Mediahub playout centre.

A lot of the broadcast tech’s have been forced out of the industry during all these changes so don’t be surprised to see outages on the increase across all broadcasters.

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From The Australian:

Light has been shone on the until-now private financial affairs of billionaire Bruce Gordon’s regional broadcaster WIN Corporation, revealing that it has not been immune to the headwinds buffeting the sector.

The accounts of WIN, deputy chaired by the 94-year-old, Bermuda-based Gordon, have been grandfathered since the mid-1990s under changes to the Corporations Act at the time.

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Needing a developer to get the site built, the WIN Grand site has now been sold for $70 million, with the new owners, Level 33, to deliver the vision provided for the site.

https://www.commercialrealestate.com.au/news/billionaire-bruce-gordon-gets-a-record-70m-for-wollongong-development-site-1271460/

WIN will have future involvement by purchasing site space once complete - While Mr Gordon has sold the asset, he plans to acquire the commercial and co-working building once it is complete, which could be as much as 20,000 square metres of lettable commercial space.

“While WIN will no longer own the site, we remain committed to the project and will continue our involvement by investing back into the site,” Birketu said.”

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