Nine will launch its new youth-driven channel by September.
In an interview with The Australian, CEO David Gyngell has thrown down the gauntlet to TEN’s sports-channel, ONE HD, offering to resign if his new channel doesn’t double the audience share of ONE by the end of the year.
That means it needs to rate close to a 3 per cent share to keep him in his job.
The channel, rumoured to be named Go! is being created with a swag of programs Nine acquired through its new $500 million output deal with Warner Bros.
“I’ll give this job away if it doesn’t do double the job of ONE,” Mr Gyngell said.
“ONE is the red-haired stepchild of sports rights,” he said. “It’s the stuff that no one wants.”
(Apologies to all red heads and step-children everywhere obviously….)
The article notes that Gyngell also flagged massive changes in the free-to-air landscape over the next year because of multi-channelling, online streaming and downloading, time-shifted viewing on digital video recorders and even mobile. It follows a reluctance to move toward a secondary channel, which he described as a ‘tax’ on the industry during a time of global recession.
Ninemsn will launch a streaming video website that will make more than 1700 hours of video clips and TV shows available on demand on July 14th.
“Within a year you won’t be able to look at ratings and judge a program in the same way,” he said. “One show will have to be monetised four times.”
“You don’t have to protect the free-to-air space,” he said. “We have to extend it and grow it.”
He even admitted Nine would lose some audience from its main channel because of cannibalisation from its new digital channel. But, he said, free-to-air rivals Seven and TEN would also be affected, and the two Nine channels combined would gain audience share and therefore advertising share.
Some of the titles previously touted for the new channel include Gossip Girl, Entourage and Sex and the City.
Despite reports it would indicate its future back in March, Seven has still not declared its hand on its new channel except to confirm it has settled on a model. We wait with bated breath…
Source: The Australian.
These channels should be available all over Australia, if the studios can get the “main” channels veiwed all over the country, then they need to sort it out and make it so all of Oz can veiw the new channels!!!
Eastenders Needs to be on free to air.. come on great showw great story line wat more do u need .. and ud get great rating!!
Some shows on GO! are good but what I really want to know is that since my building can’t get foxtel why can’t they run a subscription service online so everybody can access it. I also want to know why we can’t watch shows online from NBC and the other major US networks. People living overseas are no threat to their market-share and even if they charged a subscription I would gladly pay it as I pay for access to Major League Baseball already.
So which channel will pick up the new series of 90210… just two episodes shown on 10… does that mean they don’t want it or are saving it for ‘good’…
please show the EPL and the same to One HD
Nine has no plans to introduce G0!99 in Darwin. I have no source to back it up but because Darwin is a regional area, GO!99 will probably never come to Darwin at all.
I think Seven was sitting back and waiting to see what Nine did. And now they know what Nine is doing, and Nine has made it clear they are serious about this new network, I expect Seven will do their best to one up Nine.
The Seven/Nine – Leckie/Gyngell rivalry is fierce. I expect Seven to attack Nine head on. I have a feeling Seven will launch 2 new SD channels as soon as they can.
I also have a feeling Seven’s new channel with have a strong focus on factual. They own all the repeat rights to their huge factual library – and we have seen with Border Security that repeats rate huge – almost as well as originals. There is also an abundance of factual programming out there from Nat Geo, BBC, TruTV in the US and more.
I expect it to be mixed with things like Family Guy, Stargate and King of the Hill
You have to ask yourself, why didn’t the commercial networks make more of their HD channels. although Ten did, and at the same time they didn’t really provide a second sd channel with alternate programming, or am i missing something here?
jakevin: a combined music/reality channel would be good for Seven, because it differs from their slightly older-skewed main channel. Lifestyle shows make a up a lot of Seven’s archive tho, and we also can’t discount them bringing Sky News to Freeview (although Nine as one of Sky News’ co-owners would presumably prevent this from happening in Seven’s slot).
Survivor?
Well I quite enjoy ONE HD least it gives a bit of variety away from Football and Cricket !
Keep up the good work ONE
Nothing from Max, I wonder does Max work for the seven network?????????
@Neon Kitten – You Rock!!
Maybe i dont understand the power media.
What would you suggest Max?
There are a lot of topline sports on ONE, Again, network CEO’S showing their jealously.
well now i’m of two minds, i want it to do badly to get rid of gyngell but i want it to do well because i find the programming much more appealing than ONE. but i doubt he would quit even if he did lose, he’ll probably win though.
why does 7 just have to pick one thing for their channel, i’d prefer it if they had theme days, sci-fi day, movie day, horror day, comedy day, doco day. that way you could offer something to everyone and you wouldn’t be scraping the bottom of the barrel just to find enough content to fill the hours.
Come on Max,
How else is i going to happen?
Hope for WIN/NBN viewers, GO!88 trademark registered. Trademark number: 1305771 look it up on ipaustralia
I agree with the critics…GO 9 or GO 99 is quite bland and old. It sounds to me like one of those people who call out “Bingo” when they win a number — “…Letter B, Number 9…Bingo!”
Change it to something more youthful if it’s meant to attract younger audiences, like, “Nine Now!” Ripped that one off of ANZ…But you know what I mean.
Early powerful promos like the one they did for Microsoft’s XBoxcampaign would be ideal! First, build curiosity using the GO logo (or whatever) then splurge out your answer of what it is during the launch month. And please don’t just advertise in your own channel – otherwise, old demos will watch your GO…Bingo
Question
Why is this channel SD and not HD like ONE?
@Christian
I think Seven’s will indeed be music or reality television. There are no reality TV channels in Australia.
Although TEN would definitely suit this more… Seven may look to go in a new direction or maybe even an Australian Made Content channel.
@Dylan
Oh god, don’t even get me started on GO!99
It is the worst name i’ve ever heard.
My bet is for 7 to have a music channel.
Just look at the “genre” channels for Foxtel … 400 movies (too expensive), 500 sport (already done), 600 news (too hard), 700 music (really easy actually!)
CK.
@ Michael, I know you think that if you keep mentioning it, maybe something will happen, but Seven are hardly going to launch their channel tomorrow just because you keep asking for it.
Nine shouldn’t be picking on One. At least One shows there sport live.
Why is it that One can show three live NFL games per week but when it comes to the NRL, Nine can only show one game live a week? (plus 2 games on delay with ridiculously long ad breaks.) Hopefully when the new broadcast rights come around in 2012, One can get part of the NRL pie.
Would love to see One get Monday Night Football.
I am a ‘youth’ so I think I have the right to pass judgment. Go!9 is a c**ptacular name. Also the shows are terrible. If any youth wanted to watch them, by now we would have already watched them via internet downloads, Foxtel or DVD. If Nine really wants to want youth watching one of their products they should have shares in Facebook, YouTube and Torrenting sites.
ONE is ten times the channel that 9 or their GO will ever be. NBA, NFL, MLB, AFL, IPL etc. Hopefully they pick up the NHL for next season too. Gyngell and 9 are a joke. They’re way out of touch with what people in Australia want to see, as proven by his comment that “no one wants” sports such as basketball, football, cricket etc. Hopefully you do quit Gyngell, then maybe I’ll actually turn Channel 9 on for a change. They might actually show something other than crappy sitcoms like 2 and a half men. Try giving Survivor a go without waiting 2 years to air every season.
@ Quentin,
Completely agree with you. Nine need to be advertising this as soon as possible. They need to make viewers curious. And the promos need to be fantastic if they want to win over the “youth.” They should get some ideas off TEN, they’re promos are fantastic.
Hooray, at last a commitment by Nine for September!(i’ve been waiting since 1/1/09)
obviously they don’t share the excitement about multi channeling as i do.
I agree with David Gyngell that it will change the televisions landscape,just watch and see in 12 months time
Now we await with abated breath for news of sevens multichanneling plans.
After the broadcasting contract the NRL has ends in 2012, will it be a possibility for TEN to go at it, perhaps with Fox Sports as is now, so we’ll be able to see another Australian football code on One?
When this new 9 channel gets up and running, will Tassi and the regional’s have to wait as they had for 1hd
Come on 7 when do you announce your 2nd sd channels launch
pathetic 7 pathetic
I agree that 9/9/09 is likely to be the launch date of this channel. Not sure how often I will watch it. Really does sound like Arena take 2.
I agree with Rabbit…cmon Gorden and Co at WIN and the others…give us commitment
This is very good for Channel 9′s image – that is, providing integration across different media and focusing on our convenience rather than their TV dollars!
Free Online + Free TV = unbeatable combination.
I’m sure they have the capacity to implement such a strategy considering that they have ninemsn handy. This is one of the few reasons why I admire James Packer over his late father – as James was the one who pushed for an acquisition investment of the online realm when everybody (at that time) was still so concern about TV!
Push for a strong early promotion…this is key! Suggest for Nine to promote now and increase people’s awareness and curiousity (i.e. What’s Go 99?! type of campaign).
first it was April, then June, then August, now September? Come on Nine stop dangling the carrot and just do it already instead of puffing out statements for The Australian
I’ve been enjoying the baseball on ONE.
Perhaps Gyngell is a bit out of touch as to “sports no-one else wants”.
I notice that ONE has taken over the rights to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game this year. I used to subscribe to Fox Sports for a month purely for that event.
Not that it matters to me this year…. (I’ll be way up the back along the 1st base line wearing a Titans jersey at the All-Star game this year :-> )
If there is a review of the anti-siphoning list, removing the ban on broadcasting on the normal channel before the multi-channels would be the best thing that could happen. I believe that if that were to happen, TEN should just gamble and go for the AFL right in full or if that doesn’t happen the NRL keeping the same Seven/TEN partnership for the AFL. That would help boost Ones profile by a long shot.
Yes what about WIN viewers? ONE HD was delayed for regional areas and has only just launched in some while some still wait, what about the rest of us? Will Sept turn in to early 2010 for us?
We all know this channel will be a dumping ground for shows taken off the main channel or ones not getting a time slot and sitting on the shelf for years and endless re-runs of shows past their used by date. Not that this is a bad thing but as others have said many of the ‘new’ shows people will have downloaded them (or know someone who has a copy) months before they air for the simple fact that they don’t trust Nine any more!
So what will CEO David Gyngell do when he leaves Nine in a few months
Thats all great and everything to start in september, the networks have been able to start a 2nd sd channel since 1.1.2009 why has this taken so long?
As for 7 they know what direction for their new channel, why dont the public know yet? And when will they launch?
Pathetic 7 pathetic
No mention of the NINE HD channel, I suppose it will just bumble on completely directionless.
I wonder what model Ch7′s new channel will be.
With Ten and its ONE ->sports themed channel
Ch 9 GO -> youth centric
Ch7 ?? ->
IMO Ch7 should tie-up with National Geographic / Discovery Channel / History Channel. These channel have some great educational / informative programs.
Some of my favourites: Mega Builders, Air crash investigation, Dogs with Jobs, Man vs Wild & Deadliest Catch.
Paul says : Who in there right mind would watch mlb over entourage or something of similar quality.
Me!!!!!
Why would you watch crap like Entourage over MLB! Go Yankees!!!!
oh, gyngel has been wrong about so many things and has made some huge misjudgments. and he has misjudged this:
“I’ll give this job away if it doesn’t do double the job of ONE,”
ok then.
anyway $100mil a year is way too much, even if this is a success they will not be better off financially.
i have heard from people that sometimes during sport on 9hd that there is no sound, or there is only sound from the crowd but no commentary, even though it is simulcast on nine sd where there is commentary, also i have heard of sport on 9hd being abruptly interrupted halfway to show breakaway programming are you aware of this david?
correct me if im wrong david but i don’t think i have ever heard ten make these sort of childish comments that nine and seven constantly do, as i have said before they dont seem to understand that we arnt going to watch their network just because we don’t like the other networks, just because the other networks are crap(according to gynell) that donsn’t automatically make nine good. also what was he thinking with the stepchild comment! one thing though at least gynell is dedicated, putting his job on the line like this, i wonder if he will stick to he’s word if go! does not double ONE by the end of the year.
LOL good luck. Channel 9 is the red head granny that nobody wants to visit. Their new channel doesn’t appear to be changing their old fogey image anyway.
I think I’ll stick to One which has awesome sports like DRM, FIA GT, Le Mans, IPL, F1, Moto GP and the stunning Isle of Mann. No contest.
It seems that all systems are “go” for regional broadcasters, also. GO!88 was recently registered as a trademark by Nine.
It seems that Gyngell is closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. Nine will have to start screening a lot of new, fast tracked content to entice younger viewers to the new channel. A lot of the proposed programming has been seen by other means.
Paul:
Entourage is great, but are you going to get 5 new eps a week for 30 weeks – no. Sport deliver hours, maybe not the quality that you and I want or like but Entourage has 15 ep season at best with two seasons a year (at best). 30 hours of programming that costs a slice of the $50 million pa compared to MLB which fills close to a 1000 hours (inc replays) for bugger all cost.
Gyngell is just self promoting diverting the fact that CVC/9 are late in the digital world. 9 are doing exactly what ONE is doing – using cheap content to save costs added to staff cuts. Ten have ssen the light and presnt stuff that people watch even in SD. 9 on the hand hang on to NRL footy show and dopes presenting tributes to music stars. 9 is an inbred basket case.
One is an excellent channel – but at the moment, with it’s current sports portfolio, its very much like C7 Sport was in the end… Hopefully though! Ten will get the AFL and some other stuff on there.
Could we please start pushing the regional affiliates (ie WIN) for info on their start dates now? That is if they are going to carry these SD2′s – so we don’t have to grumble for a couple of month’s like we did with One.
Its a shame ONE keeps getting a bad wrap. Indeed it really is just the left over crap, but there are still some interesting sports such as slamball, nba, nfl and i dont mind the occasional omnisport tv. But either way i see Ten launching ONE as doing channel 7 and 9 a benefit while not really helping itself. Don’t get me wrong i like to watch ONE and would very much like to see it develop over the years as it grows its auidence share and obtains more sports that Australians would like to watch, but one could guess all it’s really doing is stopping or atleast slowing down the exodus from free to air to foxtel. This of course because sports seem to be the biggest drawcard for foxtel. Allowing Seven and Nine to retain there auidence or “customers” so to speak. And with these new channel’s from Seven and Nine i would also expect them to out do ONE. Who in there right mind would watch mlb over entourage or something of similar quality. Its just not going to happen.
But
Since when has it been an offence to take the p*ss out of rangas????!
So the new Nine Channel will basically become like Arena on Foxtel/Optus/Austar by those shows then, why not I guess currently 9HD is pretty much TV1 with the afternoon line up of Just Shoot Me, Seinfeld, Bewitched (x2) and I Dream Of Jeannie.
Also Sex In The City is now a youth program is it (okay I understand maybe the 18-25′s but younger hmmm), also I wonder how much Nine are paying to buy it back of Ten as well.
Next thing you know The Young And The Restless will be back on Nine and the Afternoon show and Hot Seat will be replaced with Emmerdale, Eastenders and Coronation Street (may as well take a leaf out of the UK Channel next).
Gyngell: Three months won’t make waves, against the three older competitors, ABC2, One and SBS TWO, unfortunately.
It needs hard work, over six months at least, to get the ratings ABC2 and One are getting.
As for starting dates, I’m tipping a soft launch on August 16 (with possibly the QTQ 50th special relayed nationally on GO!), followed by the official launch (in every market, right Win?) on… 9/9/09.
“He even admitted Nine would lose some audience from its main channel because of cannibalisation from its new digital channel.”
Sure, most of their audience loss will be because of their new channel….perhaps it will continue to be lost to online downloads where people know they can get a consistent programming schedule.
I’d be surprised if it gets even half of ONE’s numbers with their line-up that seems to be almost exclusively made up of years-old reruns. ONE’s target audience wants to watch live sport so it works pretty well, Nine’s new channel targets an audience who download episodes hours after airing in America and have no interest in watching TV.
Might rate 3 but will lose millions $
All good news but the video streaming will only take off if they get deals with ISPs for free use not counting to your download limit.
bye david!
Oh, Gyngell… shut up already and just launch the damn thing. September? You needed a few more months for your posturing and nyah-nyah-ing? How hard is it to set up a channel with all the stuff you’ve axed prematurely or refused to show at all?