Watched WIN HD a little last night to check for any HD additions and can confirm we’ve definitely still got no HD add-on in North QLD for some reason.
On another note,
With TEN on recovery mode this morning, Studio 10 on WIN actually has the weather ticker shown for once.
Except, it’s not the normal QLD-based one that is shown on Ten Brisbane, it’s a “nationwide ticker” covering a lot of random places.
The locations include:
Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Devonport, Hobart, Adelaide, Cessnock, Coober Pedy, Perth, Geraldton, Carnarvon, Port Hedland, Alice Springs, Darwin.
I am watching the Newcastle Supercars on WIN in Newcastle.
The strangest thing is happening.
TEN is playing a promo at the end of their program before they throw to a break with “coming up on TEN”…
Then TEN throws to a break and when WIN playout takes over it plays the exact same promo saying “Coming up on WIN”.
Every time the supercars goes to the break we see the exact same promo twice.
I think WIN attempted to manually switch to a break a few times so the “on ten” promo doesn’t play. So we catch about 1 second of the start of the promo then it goes to a WIN ad break. I think the timings ended up going out of whack so they now just let the Ten promo play before the WIN playout servers kick in for the ad breaks.
They also have an opaque watermark of Australia sitting on the top right corner of the screen. I think Bruce Gordon must be wasting some time with his designing of a mappy watermark to be used during the programs.
It’ll be funny if CBS decided to attempt to buy a sports team here to get an understanding of Rugby League… And they put a counter offer in for the Dragons. Obviously WIN probably own enough of a blocking stake though to prevent it from happening.
