Probably writing off the book value of the transmission assets which have been decommissioned.
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DDA’s Nera radio links and Marconi ATM switches would have been end of life due to their age anyway.
DDA was a lesson Telstra failed to learn when DTV first started up in regional Australia: they price gouged the broadcasters so the TV just built their own infrastructure - WIN, NBNTV(SP) and QTV all built microwave infrastructure due to Telstra’s prohibitive quotes. Like all good telco’s, the management at Telstra didn’t learn their lesson and after they painted the Rudd Government into a corner the NBN happened. SCA TV signing with Telstra a few years ago was the beginning of the end for DDA.
So I wonder, following the return of WIN News to the Mildura market (providing it’s a hyper-local bulletin and not another statewide one) will advertisers in Mildura favour Seven or WIN more, full-time? Or will such advertisers only put such ads in on WIN during WIN News only? You would think Seven gets the most advertisers in Mildura given they are No.1 up there just like the rest of Regional VIC.
funny
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No local reporter or camera crews In Mildura will be nothing more than hyper news bullitain.
I wonder how long it will be before WIN replace their on air news presenters with AI generated people?
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Don’t encourage them.
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They’d be the first to try it, I reckon. With the way they produce the bulletins now by filming all the presenter stuff for every region once, then stitching it all together at the end, would we even notice? They already come across as robotic. Keep your eyes peeled if they announce a new presenter!
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Do any of the staff at WIN even have access to computers… all seems rather primitive to me 
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Does anybody think if WIN will upgrade 9Life from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4?
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Given they did that years ago, yes, pretty likely.
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Christmas is coming, and on Christmas Day morning 9/WIN viewers will get the annual “WIN Symphony Orchestra” special!
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Has this been scheduled in the recent years? Last time I remember seeing it was in 2020 or 2019 when WIN was still with 10. Even then, the program is from like, 2010 or something, there’s no point putting it back on after showing it so many times in the past! 
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Are they referring to the Gordon famiy? 
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Bruce wiped his VHS copy of the show so he just gets WIN to replay it every year to have it on while celebrating Christmas
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That’s sacriledge!
Surely he would’ve taken out the tab on the tape so it can’t be taped over unless he put sticky tape over it to record something as an emergency. 
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he wiped over it with episodes of Susie
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And Ellen - remember the first time he had the affilation issues with Nine and he reckoned he could program his stations by himself? It’d be local news, Susie, Ellen and Crawfords shows on a endless loop.
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Alive and Cooking. The only decent thing to come out of the Affiliate War. I think Nine agreed to air it on GEM nationally after Bruce waved the white flag.
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