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WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by the WIN Corporation
WIN Corporation

WIN Corporation is an Australian based media corporation, that owns the WIN Television network, NWS, and STW in Australia....
 that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single Wollongong-only station, and has since expanded to 24 owned-and-operated station
Owned-and-operated station

In the broadcasting industry , an owned-and-operated station usually refers to a television station or radio station that is owned by the television network with which it is associated....
s with transmissions covering a larger geographical area of Australia than any other television network
Television network

A television network is a distribution wiktionary:Network for television content whereby a central operation provides television program for many television stations....
.

Throughout Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
, New South Wales
New South Wales

New South Wales is Australia's oldest and most populous States and territories of Australia, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland....
, Victoria
Victoria (Australia)

File:Map Victoria Aboriginal tribes .jpgVictoria is a States and territories of Australia located in the southeastern corner of Australia. It is the smallest mainland state in area but the most Population density and urbanised....
, the Australian Capital Territory
Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory is the Capital districts and territories of the Australia and its smallest States and territories of Australia....
 and Tasmania
Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and States and territories of Australia of the same name. It is located south of the eastern side of the continent, being separated from it by Bass Strait....
 it is a Nine Network
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
 affiliate. In South Australia
South Australia

South Australia is a States and territories of Australia of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories....
 it is a Seven Network
Seven Network

The Seven Network is an Australia Television broadcasting in Australia owned by the Seven Media Group. It dates back to 2 December 1956, when the first stations on the Very high frequency frequency were established in Sydney and Melbourne....
 affiliate and in Western Australia
Western Australia

Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....
 it is an affiliate of both the Nine Network
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
 and Network Ten
Network Ten

Network Ten, or Channel Ten, is one of Australia's three major commercial Television broadcasting in Australia. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, Western Australia, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country....
.

The network's name, WIN is a reference to its original Wollongong station WIN-4, itself an acronym of Wollongong Illawarra New South Wales.






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WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by the WIN Corporation
WIN Corporation

WIN Corporation is an Australian based media corporation, that owns the WIN Television network, NWS, and STW in Australia....
 that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single Wollongong-only station, and has since expanded to 24 owned-and-operated station
Owned-and-operated station

In the broadcasting industry , an owned-and-operated station usually refers to a television station or radio station that is owned by the television network with which it is associated....
s with transmissions covering a larger geographical area of Australia than any other television network
Television network

A television network is a distribution wiktionary:Network for television content whereby a central operation provides television program for many television stations....
.

Throughout Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
, New South Wales
New South Wales

New South Wales is Australia's oldest and most populous States and territories of Australia, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland....
, Victoria
Victoria (Australia)

File:Map Victoria Aboriginal tribes .jpgVictoria is a States and territories of Australia located in the southeastern corner of Australia. It is the smallest mainland state in area but the most Population density and urbanised....
, the Australian Capital Territory
Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory is the Capital districts and territories of the Australia and its smallest States and territories of Australia....
 and Tasmania
Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and States and territories of Australia of the same name. It is located south of the eastern side of the continent, being separated from it by Bass Strait....
 it is a Nine Network
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
 affiliate. In South Australia
South Australia

South Australia is a States and territories of Australia of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories....
 it is a Seven Network
Seven Network

The Seven Network is an Australia Television broadcasting in Australia owned by the Seven Media Group. It dates back to 2 December 1956, when the first stations on the Very high frequency frequency were established in Sydney and Melbourne....
 affiliate and in Western Australia
Western Australia

Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....
 it is an affiliate of both the Nine Network
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
 and Network Ten
Network Ten

Network Ten, or Channel Ten, is one of Australia's three major commercial Television broadcasting in Australia. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, Western Australia, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country....
.

The network's name, WIN is a reference to its original Wollongong station WIN-4, itself an acronym of Wollongong Illawarra New South Wales. Through its news division, WIN News
WIN News

WIN News is a local news service in parts of regional Australia, produced by WIN Television. Nineteen regional bulletins are presented from studios in Wollongong, New South Wales, Canberra, Ballarat, Victoria, Rockhampton, Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Mount Gambier, South Australia, Hobart and Perth, Western Australia....
, WIN Television broadcasts a half-hour news service to twenty regional markets.

History


The Beginning

Television Wollongong Transmission Limited (TWT), was incorporated on 4 October 1955 by a group of local businessmen. Five years later, it was awarded a licence by the Postmaster-General's Department
Postmaster-General's Department

The Postmaster-General's Department was created at Federation of Australia in 1901 to control all postal services within Australia. Its minister was the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts ....
 broadcast to the Illawarra
Illawarra

File:Subpointlookout.jpgIllawarra is a region in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is a coastal region situated immediately south of Sydney and north of the Shoalhaven region, encompassing the cities of Wollongong and Shellharbour and the municipality of Kiama....
 and South Coast regions, over a number of other groups aligned to Sydney-based stations ATN-7
ATN-7

ATN is the Sydney flagship television station of the Seven Network in Australia. The license, issued to a company named Amalgamated Television Services, a subsidiary of John Fairfax Holdings, was one of the first four licenses to be issued for commercial television stations in Australia....
 and TCN-9
TCN-9

TCN is the Sydney flagship television station of the Nine Network in Australia and is located at Willoughby, New South Wales. The license, issued to a company named Television Corporation Ltd headed by Frank Packer, was one of the first four licenses to be issued for commercial television stations in Australia....
. The new station was to broadcast on the VHF-4 frequency, using the callsign WIN (which stood for Wollongong (and the) Illawarra Network or alternatively Wollongong Illawarra New (South Wales), in line with other Australian callsigns
List of Australian television callsigns

This is a list of Television in Australia Callsigns in Australia. When a television broadcaster is granted a license, a Australian callsigns is allocated....
). Soon after, a plot of land was purchased at Fort Drummond
Drummond Battery

File:Positioin 2 drummond battery.jpgDrummond Battery was a counter bombardment battery at Port Kembla, Australia during World War II.File:Drummond battery Win television1.jpg...
, approximately two kilometres south of the Wollongong central business district
Central business district

A central business district is the commercial and often geographic heart of a city. In Australia, China , Republic of Ireland, Kenya, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore and South Africa, the phrase is commonly used, and is often colloquially abbreviated to "CBD"....
, for the station's television studio
Television studio

A television studio is an installation in which television or video productions take place, either for live television, for recording live to tape, or for the acquisition of raw footage for postproduction....
s.

Prior to the opening night's transmissions, WIN-4 undertook a television conversion program, aimed at encouraging residents to acquire new tuning equipment and converting television sets in the area to receive the station's allocated frequency. A transmitter was to be erected on Knight's Hill
Knight's Hill

Knights Hill is a ward and main road on the A215 road in West Norwood, London....
, however test transmissions were delayed due to rain.

1960s to the 1970s

WIN-4 commenced transmissions at 5:15 p.m. on 18 March 1962. The first night was met with a number of technical issues, most notably the complete loss of audio. TCN-9
TCN-9

TCN is the Sydney flagship television station of the Nine Network in Australia and is located at Willoughby, New South Wales. The license, issued to a company named Television Corporation Ltd headed by Frank Packer, was one of the first four licenses to be issued for commercial television stations in Australia....
 and ATN-7
ATN-7

ATN is the Sydney flagship television station of the Seven Network in Australia. The license, issued to a company named Amalgamated Television Services, a subsidiary of John Fairfax Holdings, was one of the first four licenses to be issued for commercial television stations in Australia....
 refused to sell programming to the station, leading to an unstable financial situation which, at its peak left the station with only 42 hours' programing.

In April 1963, Media Securities, owned by Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch

Keith Rupert Murdoch, Order of Australia, Order of St. Gregory the Great , usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born International Mass media business magnate....
, acquired a controlling interest in the station (his first ever television station) and soon appointed a new general manager, Bill Lean. Both TCN-9
TCN-9

TCN is the Sydney flagship television station of the Nine Network in Australia and is located at Willoughby, New South Wales. The license, issued to a company named Television Corporation Ltd headed by Frank Packer, was one of the first four licenses to be issued for commercial television stations in Australia....
 and ATN-7
ATN-7

ATN is the Sydney flagship television station of the Seven Network in Australia. The license, issued to a company named Amalgamated Television Services, a subsidiary of John Fairfax Holdings, was one of the first four licenses to be issued for commercial television stations in Australia....
 began purchasing several hours of first-run American television programming from WIN-4, following contractual arrangements signed by Murdoch. Throughout this period WIN-4 expanded its repeater transmissions to include Moruya, Batemans Bay, Narooma, Bega
Bega, New South Wales

Bega is a town in the south-east of New South Wales, Australia in the Bega Valley Shire Council. It is the economic centre for the Bega Valley....
 and Eden
Eden, New South Wales

Eden is a town in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. The town, south of the state capital Sydney, Australia near the border with Victoria, Australia, is located between Nullica Bay to the south and Calle Calle Bay, the northern reach of Twofold Bay, and built on undulating land adjacent to a deep harbour, Snug Cove, on i...
. Local programming and the station's near-monopoly in the area meant that by 1973, viewership had increased to occupy 63 percent of the audience.

Murdoch sold the station in 1979 to the head of Paramount Pictures
CBS Paramount International Television

CBS Paramount International Television is a multinational corporation television production/distribution arm of CBS Paramount Television and owned by CBS Corporation that was formed in 2004 by Viacom, as a result of a merger between two television companies, CBS Broadcast International and Paramount International Television....
' international distribution arm, Bruce Gordon
Bruce Gordon

Bruce Gordon may refer to:* Bruce Gordon , Canadian bassist and member of I Mother Earth* Bruce L. Gordon, American philosopher and Intelligent Design proponent...
, in order to purchase controlling interests in capital city stations TEN-10
TEN-10

TEN is the callsign of Network Ten's flagship Sydney television station. It was originally owned and operated by United Telecasters Sydney Limited , and began transmission on 5 April, 1965 with the highlight of the opening night being the variety special TV Spells Magic....
 Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
 and ATV-0
ATV-10

Channel 0 redirects here. You may be looking for TVQ or DDQ.ATV is a television station in Melbourne, part of Network Ten - one of the three major commercial television networks in Australia....
 Melbourne
Melbourne

Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....
.

1980s to the 1990s


During this period, WIN expanded to include new stations in Victoria, Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
, and New South Wales
New South Wales

New South Wales is Australia's oldest and most populous States and territories of Australia, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland....
. In 1984, WIN became the first regional television station to transmit in stereophonic sound. Close links between WIN Television and the Nine Network
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
, ensured it the Nine Network affiliation for southern New South Wales
New South Wales

New South Wales is Australia's oldest and most populous States and territories of Australia, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland....
 when aggregation
Regional television in Australia

Regional television is a term given to local television services in areas outside of the five main Australian cities .History1960s...
 took place in 1989. The changes meant that WIN expanded into the rest of southern New South Wales, launching new stations in Canberra
Canberra

Canberra is the List of Australian capital cities of Australia. With a population of over 340,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth largest Australian city overall....
, Orange
Orange, New South Wales

Orange is a provincial city in New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the Mitchell Highway, west of Sydney at an altitude of . Orange presently has a population of 31,544 and the city is a major provincial centre....
, Bathurst
Bathurst, New South Wales

Bathurst is a regional centre in the state of New South Wales, Australia approximately 200km west of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Regional Council Local Government Areas in Australia....
, Dubbo
Dubbo, New South Wales

Dubbo is a city in the Central West, New South Wales of New South Wales, Australia. It is the largest population centre in the Orana region with a population of 30,574 at the time of the 2006 census, and serves an estimated catchment of 130,000....
 and Wagga, amongst others in 1989, and at the same time acquiring new facilities in Orange, Wagga and Canberra. It also provided the network with two additional competitors, The Prime Network
Prime Television

Prime Television is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia owned by Prime Television Limited. Prime Television launched on 17 March 1962 as CBN in Orange, New South Wales and Dubbo, New South Wales, and has since expanded to cover regional New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as a Seven Network affi...
 and Capital Television
Southern Cross Ten

Southern Cross Ten is an Australian television channel broadcast by the Macquarie Media Group in Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and South Australia....
.

In 1990 WIN purchased Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
 station Star TV, shortly before regional Queensland was to be aggregated. The new station was set to become a Network Ten
Network Ten

Network Ten, or Channel Ten, is one of Australia's three major commercial Television broadcasting in Australia. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, Western Australia, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country....
 affiliate, however WIN's links with the Nine Network
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
 caused the Nine affiliation to move from QTV
TNQ

TNQ is an Australian television station, licensed to, and serving the regional areas of Queensland. The station is Owned-and-operated station by Southern Cross Ten....
, which itself became affiliated to Ten.

ENT Limited, a Launceston
Launceston, Tasmania

Launceston is a city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia, with a population of 99,675, located at the juncture of the North Esk River, South Esk River, and Tamar River, Tasmania rivers....
-based company that owned a number of television and radio stations in regional Victoria
Victoria (Australia)

File:Map Victoria Aboriginal tribes .jpgVictoria is a States and territories of Australia located in the southeastern corner of Australia. It is the smallest mainland state in area but the most Population density and urbanised....
 and Tasmania
Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and States and territories of Australia of the same name. It is located south of the eastern side of the continent, being separated from it by Bass Strait....
, was bought in 1994. Vic Television
VTV (TV station)

VTV is an Australian television station broadcasting in regional Victoria in Australia. The network was owned by ENT Ltd., before being purchased by the WIN Corporation....
 and TasTV were, as a result, incorporated into the WIN network and subsequently renamed WIN Television. The network further expanded to Griffith
Griffith, New South Wales

Griffith is a city in south-western New South Wales, Australia. It is also the seat of the City of Griffith Local Government Areas in Australia....
 in 1998, when WIN purchased MTN-9 Griffith and its supplementary station AMN-31 from its local owners. Although station had previously been part of the Prime Television network, MTN already had links with WIN and took its feed from the network's Wollongong base.

WIN became regional Western Australia
Western Australia

Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....
's second commercial television network on 26 March 1999. Prior to the launch of the new station, GWN
Golden West Network

The Golden West Network, often abbreviated to GWN, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia owned by Prime Television Limited that is based in Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia....
 held a commercial monopoly on the market. GWN became an affiliate of the Seven Network
Seven Network

The Seven Network is an Australia Television broadcasting in Australia owned by the Seven Media Group. It dates back to 2 December 1956, when the first stations on the Very high frequency frequency were established in Sydney and Melbourne....
, while WIN took a combination of Nine Network and Network Ten programming. Despite the Nine Network
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
's traditional ratings dominance throughout most of the country, GWN has remained the market's most-watched station. The second ratings survey of 2006 placed WIN Television with a 34.7% commercial audience share in prime time
Prime time

Prime time or primetime is the block of television program during the middle of the evening.The term prime time is often defined in terms of a fixed time period, for example, from 8:00 p.m....
, compared to the Golden West Network with 65.3%.

In the same year, WIN purchased two stations in South Australia
South Australia

South Australia is a States and territories of Australia of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories....
, SES-8 in Mount Gambier
Mount Gambier, South Australia

Mount Gambier is the second most populous city in South Australia after Adelaide, the capital of the state.It is approximately 450 kilometres south of Adelaide and 435 kilometres west of Melbourne....
 and RTS-5a in the Riverland
Riverland

The Riverland, also known as Big River Country, is a region of South Australia. It covers the area near the River Murray from where it flows into South Australia downstream to Blanchetown, South Australia....
 region. They became known as WIN South Australia
SES/RTS

SES/RTS, part of the WIN Television network, is an Australian television station licensed to, and serving Mount Gambier and Riverland in South Australia....
 and until recently featured news bulletins presented from studios at both stations (bulletins are now presented from the set of studios in Mount Gambier
Mount Gambier

Mount Gambier can refer to one of:*Mount Gambier, South Australia, a city in South Australia*Mount Gambier , a volcano in South Australia...
). In 2002 supplementary licences were granted under Section 38A of the Broadcasting Services Act, allowing the network to launch additional channels, using the callsigns MGS in Mount Gambier and LRS in the Riverland, and known as WIN Ten.

2000s

Win Cameracrew
WIN Television began to introduce digital television
Digital television in Australia

Digital television in Australia comes in five forms:* Digital terrestrial television in Australia* Optus Aurora, a free-to-view Remote Area Broadcasting Services...
 soon after it became available to metropolitan areas in January, 2001. Under Section 38A of the Broadcasting Services Act, the network has been able to introduce, in partnership with other stations, additional digital-only Network Ten
Network Ten

Network Ten, or Channel Ten, is one of Australia's three major commercial Television broadcasting in Australia. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, Western Australia, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country....
 affiliates. These have included Tasmanian Digital Television
Tasmanian Digital Television

Tasmanian Digital Television is a digital television Television broadcasting in Australia in Tasmania, Australia. It is jointly owned by the WIN Corporation and Macquarie Media Group, and largely managed by WIN Television....
, launched in late 2003 in partnership with Southern Cross Broadcasting
Southern Cross Broadcasting

Southern Cross Broadcasting Limited was a diversified Australian Mass media company , that owned and operated a variety of media businesses, primarily radio and television....
, and Mildura Digital Television
Mildura Digital Television

Mildura Digital Television is a broadcasting company formed by a joint venture between WIN Television and Prime Television. Based in Mildura, Victoria, Victoria , Australia, it is a digital television-only Network Ten affiliate, and began broadcasting on January 1, 2006....
 in January 2006, with Prime Television Limited
Prime Television Limited

Prime Television Limited is an Australian-based media corporation, owner of regional television network Prime Television in eastern Australia, the Golden West Network in regional Western Australia, and a number of radio stations in Queensland....
.

On 30 May 2007, Southern Cross Broadcasting
Southern Cross Broadcasting

Southern Cross Broadcasting Limited was a diversified Australian Mass media company , that owned and operated a variety of media businesses, primarily radio and television....
 announced its sale of NWS
NWS

NWS is the Nine Network television station in Adelaide, South Australia.NWS may also refer to:*N.W.S/ N.W is a collective of MC's, rappers and producers from the North West of England...
 to the WIN Corporation
WIN Corporation

WIN Corporation is an Australian based media corporation, that owns the WIN Television network, NWS, and STW in Australia....
 for AU$105 million. Similarly, STW
STW

STW may refer to:*Stop the War Coalition, an anti-war group in the United Kingdom*STW-9, a television station in Perth, Australia*Super Tourenwagen Cup, the German Supertouring car championship ...
 Perth
Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the List of Australian capital cities and largest city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of Western Australia. With a population of 1,554,769 , Perth ranks fourth amongst the nation's cities, with a growth rate consistently above the national average....
, owned by Sunraysia Television
Sunraysia Television

Sunraysia Television is the publicly-listed parent company of Swan Television and Radio Broadcasters, former owners of STW-9 . Sunraysia TV is majority owned by Eva Presser, who owns around 55% of the company....
 and affiliated to the Nine Network
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
, was purchased on 8 June 2007, when the station was sold to WIN Television's parent company, WIN Corporation
WIN Corporation

WIN Corporation is an Australian based media corporation, that owns the WIN Television network, NWS, and STW in Australia....
, for AU$163.1 million.

Despite the station's ownership of Nine Perth, WIN in Western Australia broadcast Ten News Perth
Ten News

Ten News is the news service of Network Ten in Australia. Its one hour flagship local metropolitan bulletin is shown at 5.00pm weeknights, alongside national early, morning, weekend and late editions presented from TEN-10....
, produced for and shown on rival station Ten Perth up until 27 August 2007. Preceding this in June, 2007, the network announced their intention to show National Nine News
National Nine News

Nine News is the news service of the Australia Nine Network. Previously known as National Nine News, it has traditionally been the most popular service in the country, however in recent years, the Seven Network's Seven News has become the highest rating evening news service on a national basis....
.

A conflict between WIN and its long-time metropolitan counterpart the Nine Network
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
 arose in mid-2007. PBL Media
PBL Media

PBL Media is a joint venture between Consolidated Media Holdings and CVC Capital Partners.Originally ownership of the joint venture was 50/50, however in June 2007, PBL announced that it would sell a further 25% to CVC for $AUD 515 million....
, Nine's parent company, requested up to 40% of the network's advertising revenue in return for program supply. WIN's owner, WIN Corporation
WIN Corporation

WIN Corporation is an Australian based media corporation, that owns the WIN Television network, NWS, and STW in Australia....
 rejected this offer, expecting to pay only 29% (a 3% decrease from the previous contract and in line with many of the network's competitors, such as Prime Television
Prime Television

Prime Television is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia owned by Prime Television Limited. Prime Television launched on 17 March 1962 as CBN in Orange, New South Wales and Dubbo, New South Wales, and has since expanded to cover regional New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as a Seven Network affi...
 and Southern Cross Ten
Southern Cross Ten

Southern Cross Ten is an Australian television channel broadcast by the Macquarie Media Group in Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and South Australia....
). The network's owner, Bruce Gordon
Bruce Gordon (businessman)

Bruce Gordon is an Australian citizen, residing mainly in Bermuda He ranks 891 on The Forbes List of billionaires with a net worth of $1.2 billion....
, subsequently threatened to sever the network's affiliation after negotiations stagnated, stating that his previous position at the Paramount Pictures Corporation
Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production company and distribution company, located on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California....
 meant he could program the network independently. On 16 August 2007 WIN Television dropped key Nine Network programs from its daytime television
Daytime television

Daytime television is the general term for television shows produced that are intended to air during the daytime hours. This article is about American daytime television, for information about international daytime television see Daytime television....
 schedule, including Mornings with Kerri-Anne
Mornings with Kerri-Anne

Mornings with Kerri-Anne is a Nine Network Australian morning television program, hosted by Kerri-Anne Kennerley.The program debuted on 28 October 2002 on the Nine Network to compete against Network Ten's Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton....
 and National Nine News: Morning Edition
National Nine News

Nine News is the news service of the Australia Nine Network. Previously known as National Nine News, it has traditionally been the most popular service in the country, however in recent years, the Seven Network's Seven News has become the highest rating evening news service on a national basis....
. An affiliation deal with the Seven Network
Seven Network

The Seven Network is an Australia Television broadcasting in Australia owned by the Seven Media Group. It dates back to 2 December 1956, when the first stations on the Very high frequency frequency were established in Sydney and Melbourne....
 was announced on 4 September 2007, for the network's eastern South Australian stations in Mount Gambier
Mount Gambier

Mount Gambier can refer to one of:*Mount Gambier, South Australia, a city in South Australia*Mount Gambier , a volcano in South Australia...
 and the Riverland
Riverland

The Riverland, also known as Big River Country, is a region of South Australia. It covers the area near the River Murray from where it flows into South Australia downstream to Blanchetown, South Australia....
. The new program schedule is a mixture of Seven and WIN programming and commenced broadcasting on 1 October 2007.

Programming


WIN Television is a sole Nine Network
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
 affiliate in most broadcast areas, with Network Ten
Network Ten

Network Ten, or Channel Ten, is one of Australia's three major commercial Television broadcasting in Australia. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, Western Australia, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country....
 affiliation in regional Western Australia
Western Australia

Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....
 (combined with a predominant Nine Network
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
 affiliation), and Seven Network
Seven Network

The Seven Network is an Australia Television broadcasting in Australia owned by the Seven Media Group. It dates back to 2 December 1956, when the first stations on the Very high frequency frequency were established in Sydney and Melbourne....
 affiliation in eastern South Australia
South Australia

South Australia is a States and territories of Australia of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories....
. WIN Television has always produced local programming, including the flagship local news service WIN News
WIN Television

WIN Television is an Australian Australian television broadcasting owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia....
, that supplement programs sourced from affiliates.

Since inception the network has produced and broadcast notable programs including Sportsview and Sportsworld, a review of international, national and local sporting events. From the first week of transmissions children's television series
Children's television series

Children's television series are television programmes designed for and marketed to children, normally broadcast during the morning and afternoon....
 The Channel 4 Club was produced, with children's television program
Television program

A television program , television programme , or television show is something that people watch on television. It may be a one-off broadcast or, more usually, part of a periodically recurring television series....
 Stopwatch beginning in 1979. English-language educational programme You Say the Word began in 1971, catering to non-English-speaking immigrants. Short-lived cooking show
Cooking show

A TV cooking show is a television program that presents the preparation of food, in a kitchen on the studio set. The host of the show, usually a celebrity chef, prepares one or more dishes over the course of the show, taking the viewing audience through the food's preparation showing all intermediate stages of cooking....
 Variety Italian Style premiered in 1972, with Malcom Elliott initially hosting the long-running Tonight Show in 1981 being replaced by John Tingle years later. To commemorate WIN Television's 21st year of broadcasting, a one-and-half-hour retrospective montage special was produced in 1983. WIN Television also co-produced telemovie Last Chance in 1986 with a Canadian television production company. Spanning close to a decade, children's television series Goodsports
Goodsports

Goodsports is an Australian children's television series, produced by WIN Television in Hobart, Tasmania. The half-hour show premiered in 1991, and was broadcast on WIN Television each Saturday morning at 7.30am....
 was produced by WIN Television from 1991 to 2000.

WIN Television's current Australian programming productions consists of television shows including; Susie
Susie (TV program)

Susie is an Australian morning talk show and variety show, produced by WIN Television and hosted by Susie Elelman in Wollongong, New South Wales....
, Destinations
Destinations

Destinations, formerly Wider Opportunities or Wider Ops, are events for individual older Girl Scouts from around the United States. Most Destinations are held within the United States, though each year there are a few trips abroad, such as to allow participants to be part of the US delegation to another country's national Jambore...
, and Fishing Australia
Fishing Australia

Fishing Australia is an Australian fishing television program, produced by WIN Television and hosted by Rob Paxevanos. The informative program premiered in 2001 and is broadcast on WIN Television each Saturday....
. On 17 May 2007, WIN Television announced a new midday program called Susie
Susie (TV program)

Susie is an Australian morning talk show and variety show, produced by WIN Television and hosted by Susie Elelman in Wollongong, New South Wales....
, however this was subsequently moved to a morning timeslot. WIN Television also broadcasts a range of exclusive overseas and domestically sourced programming including The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show

The Ellen DeGeneres Show is an Emmy Award-winning television syndication television talk show hosted by comedienne Ellen DeGeneres and distributed by Warner Bros....
 and Alive and Cooking.

News & Current Affairs


WIN News
WIN News

WIN News is a local news service in parts of regional Australia, produced by WIN Television. Nineteen regional bulletins are presented from studios in Wollongong, New South Wales, Canberra, Ballarat, Victoria, Rockhampton, Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Mount Gambier, South Australia, Hobart and Perth, Western Australia....
 is the network's local news service. Nineteen regional bulletins are presented from studios in Wollongong
Wollongong, New South Wales

Wollongong is a seaside city located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. It lies on the narrow coastal strip between the Illawarra Escarpment and the Pacific Ocean, 82 kilometres south of Sydney....
, Canberra
Canberra

Canberra is the List of Australian capital cities of Australia. With a population of over 340,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth largest Australian city overall....
, Ballarat
Ballarat, Victoria

Ballarat is a city in Victoria , Australia, and Victoria's largest inland city. It is well-known for its history and heritage.It is approximately 105 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, Australia, with an urban population of 88,437 people....
, Rockhampton
Rockhampton, Queensland

Rockhampton is a regional city and Local Government Areas of Australia located in Queensland, Australia. Rockhampton is the largest urban centre in Central Queensland with the 2006 census recording the Rockhampton Statistical Subdivision population to be 74,530 people....
, Toowoomba
Toowoomba, Queensland

Toowoomba is a city in South East Queensland Queensland, Australia. It is located west of Queensland's capital city, Brisbane. With an urban population of 95,265, Toowoomba is one of Australia's largest provincial cities....
, Mount Gambier
Mount Gambier, South Australia

Mount Gambier is the second most populous city in South Australia after Adelaide, the capital of the state.It is approximately 450 kilometres south of Adelaide and 435 kilometres west of Melbourne....
, Hobart
Hobart

Hobart is the List of Australian capital cities and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1803 as a penal colony, Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney....
 and Perth
Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the List of Australian capital cities and largest city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of Western Australia. With a population of 1,554,769 , Perth ranks fourth amongst the nation's cities, with a growth rate consistently above the national average....
, in addition to Nine News bulletins presented and produced from the network's metropolitan stations, STW
STW

STW may refer to:*Stop the War Coalition, an anti-war group in the United Kingdom*STW-9, a television station in Perth, Australia*Super Tourenwagen Cup, the German Supertouring car championship ...
 in Perth, Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the List of Australian capital cities and largest city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of Western Australia. With a population of 1,554,769 , Perth ranks fourth amongst the nation's cities, with a growth rate consistently above the national average....
 and NWS
NWS

NWS is the Nine Network television station in Adelaide, South Australia.NWS may also refer to:*N.W.S/ N.W is a collective of MC's, rappers and producers from the North West of England...
 in Adelaide. Although in most areas it is the only local news bulletin, in some markets it may compete with Prime News
Prime Television

Prime Television is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia owned by Prime Television Limited. Prime Television launched on 17 March 1962 as CBN in Orange, New South Wales and Dubbo, New South Wales, and has since expanded to cover regional New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as a Seven Network affi...
, Seven Local News
Seven News

Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia. National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth, Western Australia....
, GWN News
Golden West Network

The Golden West Network, often abbreviated to GWN, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia owned by Prime Television Limited that is based in Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia....
, or Southern Cross Nightly News
Southern Cross Television

Southern Cross Television, or Southern Cross, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia available in Tasmania, Darwin, Northern Territory, Regional South Australia, and Central Australia....
.

WIN has produced independent news reports and bulletins since 1962 for its original Wollongong station. As well as the flagship nightly bulletin, WIN Television has in the past produced current affairs
Current affairs (news format)

Current affairs is a genre of broadcast journalism where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of news stories that have recently occurred or are ongoing at the time of broadcast....
 programming including community affairs program Roving Eye, and Sunday Review, a weekly review of international, national and local stories.

Availability

WIN Television simulcasts in analogue
Analog television

Analog television encodes television picture and sound information and transmits it as an analog signal: one in which the message conveyed by the broadcast Signal is a function of deliberate variations in the amplitude and/or frequency of the signal....
 and standard definition
Standard-definition television

Standard-definition television refers to television systems that have a resolution that meets standards but not considered either Enhanced-definition television or High-definition television....
 in all areas except Western Australia
Western Australia

Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....
 where only analogue transmissions are currently available. Free-to-air
Free-to-air

Free-to-air television and radio broadcasts are sent Encryption and may be received via any suitable receiver:Free-to-view is, generally, available without subscription but is digitally encrypted and may be restricted geographically....
 transmissions are available from both terrestrial
Terrestrial television

Terrestrial television is a term which refers to modes of television broadcasting which do not involve satellite transmission. . The term is uncommon in the United States while more common in Europe....
 transmitter
Transmitter

For biologic transmitters, see transmitter substance.A transmitter is an Electronics machine which, usually with the aid of an antenna , propagates an electromagnetic radiation Signalling such as radio, television, or other telecommunications....
s in major regional centres, and satellite
Satellite television

Satellite television is television delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by a satellite dish and set-top box. In many areas of the world it provides a wide range of channels and services, often to areas that are not serviced by terrestrial television or cable television providers....
 transmissions across remote and regional Western Australia on the free-to-view
Free-to-view

Free-to-view is a term used in the United Kingdom for certain television channels on the Sky Digital satellite platform which require a working VideoGuard receiver and viewing card to decrypt the signals, but do not require any form of continual subscription....
 Optus Aurora
Optus fleet of satellites

This is a list of the satellites operated by Optus, an Australian telecommunications company....
 platform. Subscription cable
Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
 is also provided by TransACT
TransACT

TransACT Capital Communications is an Australian telecommunications company based in Canberra which provides broadband internet access, fixed telephony, cable television services, and, more recently, mobile phone services using the Vodafone Network, in Canberra and a subset of these services in Queanbeyan and throughout South-east NSW....
 in the Australian Capital Territory
Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory is the Capital districts and territories of the Australia and its smallest States and territories of Australia....
, and Neighbourhood Cable
Neighbourhood Cable

Neighbourhood Cable is a telecommunications provider based in regional Victoria , Australia . Neighbourhood Cable owns and operates Hybrid Fibre Coaxial cable networks in three Victorian regional cities:...
 in Ballarat
Ballarat, Victoria

Ballarat is a city in Victoria , Australia, and Victoria's largest inland city. It is well-known for its history and heritage.It is approximately 105 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, Australia, with an urban population of 88,437 people....
 and Mildura
Mildura, Victoria

Mildura is a regional city in northwestern Victoria , Australia, part of the Rural City of Mildura. Mildura is located in the Sunraysia region, and is on the banks of the Murray River....
.

WIN broadcasts to a larger geographical area than any other television network
Television network

A television network is a distribution wiktionary:Network for television content whereby a central operation provides television program for many television stations....
, in the world, through owned-and-operated station
Owned-and-operated station

In the broadcasting industry , an owned-and-operated station usually refers to a television station or radio station that is owned by the television network with which it is associated....
s including RTQ
RTQ

RTQ is an Australian television station broadcasting in regional Queensland in Australia. The network was owned by Star Television, before being purchased by the WIN Corporation on October 5, 1988....
 Queensland, WIN Southern New South Wales, VTV
VTV (TV station)

VTV is an Australian television station broadcasting in regional Victoria in Australia. The network was owned by ENT Ltd., before being purchased by the WIN Corporation....
 Victoria, TVT Tasmania, MTN Griffith, STV
STV (TV station)

STV is an Australian television station licensed to and serving the regions surrounding Mildura, Victoria in Australia, owned and operated by the WIN Corporation and part of the WIN Television network....
 Mildura, SES
SES/RTS

SES/RTS, part of the WIN Television network, is an Australian television station licensed to, and serving Mount Gambier and Riverland in South Australia....
 Mount Gambier, RTS
SES/RTS

SES/RTS, part of the WIN Television network, is an Australian television station licensed to, and serving Mount Gambier and Riverland in South Australia....
 Riverland, and WOW
WOW (TV station)

WOW is an Australian television station licensed to WIN Television, serving regional and remote Western Australia. The station officially commenced transmissions on March 26, 1999 as the second commercial regional broadcaster in Western Australia, alongside former monopoly, Golden West Network ....
 Western Australia. NWS
NWS

NWS is the Nine Network television station in Adelaide, South Australia.NWS may also refer to:*N.W.S/ N.W is a collective of MC's, rappers and producers from the North West of England...
 Adelaide and STW
STW

STW may refer to:*Stop the War Coalition, an anti-war group in the United Kingdom*STW-9, a television station in Perth, Australia*Super Tourenwagen Cup, the German Supertouring car championship ...
 Perth, both owned by WIN Corporation
WIN Corporation

WIN Corporation is an Australian based media corporation, that owns the WIN Television network, NWS, and STW in Australia....
, follow a schedule similar to that of the network's regional stations.

Logos

The original WIN Television logo was used by the station until 1980, featuring the word WIN TV, derived from the station's call sign. In 1980, the logo was updated with the TV removed, and the WIN placed inside a blue rectange. Coinciding with the network's aggregation in 1989, WIN added nine dots into a new logo designed similarly to the Nine Network
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
, and also began using Nine's on-air promotion, with the WIN logo replacing Nine's. In 1998, the dots were changed to spheres.

Three-dimensions were added to the letters WIN in 2002, coinciding with a revamp of the network's on-air identity, concurrently with Nine Network. On 30 January 2006, the station relaunched its logo to coincide with the Nine Network's fiftieth year of broadcasting. The new logo designed by Bruce Dunlop Associates saw the removal of the nine dots, with a blue rectangle added to behind the letters WIN. Following this in 2008, blue rectangle was removed from the logo. WIN, however, did not follow the Nine Network in reviving the nine dots.

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