Tasmanian viewers will finally get their first look at ONE HD from Thursday when the channel launches at 7pm on TDT, a joint venture between WIN and Macquarie Southern Cross Media.
The 24hr sports channel will be available to viewers who receive TDT’s high definition digital service.
It kicks off with Welcome to ONE, a half hour program at 7.00pm followed by Thursday Night Live, the sports panel show hosted by Bill Woods.
TDT General Manager, Stephen Giles said today, “We are very pleased to be able to bring this new channel to Tasmania, it is unique and will provide sports fans with more viewing choices as we deliver their favourite sports”.
After months of languishing, Tasmanian viewers are in for a feast of new content. Following ONE’s launch, GO! will also launch on August 9th on WIN.
Local highlights:
One Week At A Time: This show is for all AFL lovers. Hosted by Network Ten’s AFL expert commentator and sports presenter Stephen Quartermain, the show airs at 7.30pmAEST every Monday night during the AFL Home and Away Season. Quarters is joined by Robert Walls who will analyse the games just played and discuss the issues of the week ahead. AFL superstars Maohew Lloyd (Essendon), Tom Harley (Geelong) and Mathew Richardson (Richmond) appear on a regular basis as guests on the show. 7.30pm AEST Mondays.
Thursday Night Live: Thursday Night Live is hosted by News presenter and sports expert Bill Woods and satisfies the appetite of all sports lovers. Sports journalists and experts from around the country are interviewed each week with special guests from every sporting code including NRL, Netball, Golf, Poker, AFL and more … 7.30 pm AEST Thursdays.
Sports Tonight: Extended versions of the ‘must‐watch’ show for sports fans, Sports Tonight: Mondays – Fridays: 9.30pm (AEST / AESST)
Sundays: ‘Sports Tonight ‐ The Weekend Wrap’, an hour‐long show at 7.30 pm (AEST / AESST) Update segments shown each day on a regular basis.
International sports documentaries and feature shows – For action sport fans and sport doco lovers: shows including Extreme Paintball, Tread BMX, SLAMBALL, World’s Strongest Man and Poker Stars will feature in regular weekly time slots.
Keep an eye on www.onehd.com.au to see all the exciting new shows on offer.
TEN’s AFL wil be driven by TEN not ONE. It’s where the revenue is and anti-siphoning dictates. ONE will only have offshoot ideas like panel shows, or simulcast.
bah, they had to turn on ONE when the Fina is on didn’t they.
all i see is swimming swimming and more swimming.
can’t wait till that’s all finished.
David what do reckon the possibilty is of ONE buying more rights to AFL games? Say if they had the rights to replay every game of the round, and have some of them live like Fox Sports do?
well if they are launching tomorrow evening.. then surely it’s high time to publish a schedule..
@Tazzies – because the channel obviously hasn’t launched yet! Didn’t you read the article?
Think I heard the NBN was starting in Tassie….
Fantastic! Now we just need high speed broadband!
Why is it that none of the popular TV schedule guides (including the one here) have added ONE HD to their Tasmanian schedules?
Are TDT HD going to change the name of the service to one HD?
Griffith… I think they should get a third license, same as SA probably will, prior to digital switchoff. But I think a campaign should happen to make sure Griffith enjoys the same choice as a viewer in Wagga Wagga or Canberra
Mac, Nine owns NBN but has nothing to do with WIN. Adding a few new transmitters around Sydney and Melbourne is a bit different to the hundreds of new trasmitters, antennas, infrastruture that a network like WIN has to add. WIN has transmitters from Port Douglas to Port Arthur, fom Wollongong to Geraldton. It’s a big cost for Nine/NBN but a massive cost for WIN. TDT is not just Hobart & Launceston either, but all of the other relay transmitters all over Tas.
It’s almost 2010 so why is it so hard to get blanket TV coverage in regional areas?
@ mac.
not all areas covered by win tv will get go!
win Griffith nsw has 70,000 viewers but will not get GO!
there is no HD there for win or prime tv… and no channel 10!!
why??? who knows but its not good!!
nine has proved that it is possible to launch in regional markets the same time as metro, the question is if nine/win/nbn can do it why cant ten/sc/tdt? also does anyone else find that saying TDT is a bit of a touge twister lol.
All you Tassie viewers have to do is rescan, your HD set top boxes/ intergrated HDTV’s, prior to One’s launch on the Apple Isle, and if Win’s got any brains, start listing 80 as GO! (while moving it to “temporary” SD) on the same day.
At least we dont have to fight for GO!
Who did Stephen Giles say that to and how ?