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WIN Television has confirmed the launch of GO! on Channel 80 for its viewers in August.
In a Press Release issued today, WIN has talked up the arrival of the channel with as much enthusiasm as Nine.
In fact the same quotes attributed to David Gyngell at Nine are now attributed to Andrew Gordon, WIN’s Executive Chairman.
“This new channel is a natural evolution for WIN and for free-to-air television,” Mr Gordon said.
“And that’s the key word – FREE. It means that within weeks our viewers will have access, free of charge, to a second channel offering quality and a great deal of first-run programs.
“It’s a WIN for our audience because it offers more diversity and substantially wider viewing choices than ever before, at no cost.”
He also reiterated Gyngell’s line about Warner Brothers content.
“Warners produce the best international programming across-the-board, no question. And WIN viewers will see the best of it both on our existing primary channel and the new GO! multi-channel,” he said.
No exact airdate was issued by WIN, but Nine is espected to ’soft launch’ on August 9 with a full launch in September. There is some speculation it could move later to 88, though this is unconfirmed.
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Been a lot of miming for the last week or so. I wish Tony Greig would mime as well.
I Live in Western Victoria and for the past 6 days there has been no audio on channel go, so you may as well turn the bloody thing off, as most viewers dont like silent programs.I would have been a enthusiastic viewer but not any more after 2 days I gave up trying but I have flicked over to see if any one was bright enough to fix it and it is still not working yet
Ron Steff
i noticed Win didn’t put go on Channel 80 when i scanned it came up on channel 88
cheers
It’s good to be right sometimes.
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the freeview site has been updated and cheddar, troy and josh are right on the money, GO will be on the HD WIN channel at first and then move to a separate SD in october. the website also confirms that NBN will be getting it.
WIN Griffith will not be getting GO!
they dont have TEN either there!!
Tracy, Imparja is not likely to beam GO! until they have upgraded to digital. I understand that Imparja has not upgraded to digital yet left alone applying with SC Central for a future channel 10 station for the outback. It will probably be a long time before GO! is beamed to the outback the way Imparja operates at this rate.
I can thank my lucky stars that Imparja is not beaming in Darwin. From what I have heard about the latest reports about Imparja I do not want a bar of Imparja in my area.
Just read this over at DTV Forum
“Just mentioned now on WIN news confirmation of GO for August on the HD channel and then from October on a second SD channel… ”
So just like Chedder said below, start on HD then move to SD.
WIN last night said on their news that it GO! will start on channel 80 and move to SD in october. No need to panic people
People in regional areas should be calling their local WIN office and thank them. Look at the absolute disregard the Southern cross shows to regionals. Hats off to WIN for not leaving us behind.
@Cheddar…you are right on the money…exactly what will happen…and don’t worry bout the knockers on this site….its very quickly becoming a site for whinging and not constructive enquiry….. but my fault i keep coming back and reading it
@ jakevin
grow up…
we only get imparja where we live which broadcasts nine programs will we get this we live outback qld
You have to laugh.
From just one announcement, so many of you have drawn such certain pesimistic & annoyed conclusions. Despite what some may say, there maybe a quite good reason for putting Go! on WIN’s Chl 80 besides just to pi** you off!
It could as simple that they don’t have a third service platform yet (like Nine’s 99) so they’re using 80 in the meantime – that makes sense.
And if this is the case, wouldn’t you rather have a whole new channel of programming rather than just some occasional native HD of the same program on the SD channel, like presently occurs on HD 80?
Let’s wait & see. Maybe WIN will start their third channel afterward & Go! will then migrate to that new channel (88?) & HD will return to 80.
Anf for those lamenting Go! being on HD 80 & only having an SD PVR, don’t blame WIN, blame yourself for buying a device that right from the start of digital TV was destined to be obsolete.
Channel 80? Thats pointless! WinHD is the best for movies and the only regional station that does 5.1 sound so it will be a shame to lose it for a fully SD channel. It would make much more sense for it to be put on 88 and keep 80 how it is.
I am just thankful Us in WIN land are going to get GO!
p.s. thanks Bruce !
Rhonda this has been answered below. We don’t know finer detail yet.
Hey David Knox
Is Tasmania going to get this channel?
It probably will be on 88 because WIN management usually has no idea what it’s talking about.
Just a theory, WIN could still launch GO! on channel 80 (WIN HD) because WIN probably would have already shown enough HD content to last the year. If this is the case then they won’t have to show any HD content till next year. So perhaps WIN could be planning to have GO! on ch 80 till the new joint ABC/WIN facility is up and running, then when the facility starts operating WIN could then switch GO! to ch 88 leaving WIN HD to return to ch 80.
I believe the fact that 7 are number 1 means they are in no hurry. I heard a rumour (forget where) that they may do something with the extra channel in October, on or near the 2nd anniversary of 7HD Oct 15. Also maybe waiting to see how ch 9’s goes.
So I’m confused if GO! is 99 on ch9 and not HD are they going to waste their WIN HD one a 576 feed from ch9?
I know there are a lot of questions since the ACA thing went to air, I just wish Nine would answer them.
At least it’s better than Seven, who is yet to tell us anything about their 2nd SD plans… if they want to remain number one then ch7 needs to get off their butt and do something!
Only 20 hours a week for hd requirements, how pathetic
Thank you, I stand corrected re: NBN being 9 (PBL) owned.
Every TV station in Australia is required to broadcast at least 20 hours of HD content a week. That includes all WIN owned stations across Australia.
Go! will not be broadcast in HD.
So to keep HD content requirements, WIN stations will have to keep broadcasting Nine HD as well. This is why Southern Cross owned Ten affiliates had to launch One in HD not SD – for the HD requirements.
Go! will not be in HD for any WIN broadcast area, as Nine is not producing Go! in HD in the first place
@AndrewB: NBN is owned by Nine.
NBN is owned by 9 and NBN stated during a news bulletin that GO will start
1. Expect a delay with NBN taking on GO. They are not owned by 9, just an affiliate. NBN do not currently and never have offered 9HD breakaways and have even stated they have no plans to take on 9’s extra channels. Hoping this will change in time for GO.
2, As for WIN, if the regionals have GO on 80, then it will not be HD as the feed from 9 is not HD as 99 is an SD channel. And as WIN owns 9 in Adelaide and Perth, they will have GO, but regional WIN may be a different story although it is sounding positive for them,
3. Due to areas like the Gold Coast and Central Coast where you get both city and regional TV, regional LCNs must be different to those of cities so as not to cause confusion with channels in those areas. eg ch 9 is 9, 90 and 99, NBN is 8, 80 and 81, Seven is 7 and 70, Prime is 6 and 60, SC10 is 5 with ONE HD on 50 while 10 has channels 1,11,12 for ONE and 10 for the main 10 channel.
Great, another channel for Win to use their utterly pathetic excuse of a watermark on.
Why oh why don’t WIN get clean sports feeds from 9, or just call themselves WIN9?
@Brian from Tassie – that’s the point I’ve been making for reginal viewers, here we only get ONE HD, no SD version on SC TEN, the same might happen for GO! meaning my $500 LG recorder is next to useless as it doesn’t have a HD tuner, just SD like the majority on DVD/HDD recorders.
You need to spend close to double that for a HD recorder, even Tivo is about $700 and that lacks a DVD recorder to copy programs to DVD…
this channel doesn’t actually look bad, and seems to have a wide range of programming, also good news for win viewers, good to see also that it will feature many shows nine has failed to continue airing. hopefully though GO! wont make constant changes to their schedule like nine does.
Max, Darwin also have a overlap situation in the Darwin rural area. Darwin’s rural area can receive 9, DDT, SC Darwin, ABC, SBS, Imparja and SC Central. Hence the reason why 9 is on LCN 9, 90, DDT on LCN 1, 10, SC Darwin on 7, 70, 77, when Imparja goes digital it will be on LCN 8, 80(?), 88(?), SC Central to be LCN 6, 60(?) and 66(?), and future channel 10 central will be LCN 5, 50(?)??
Correct me if I am wrong but it clears up the situation in why Darwin’s LCN is so unusual in a regional area. Hope it helps to clarity the LCN issue.
Smacca (6:19pm), good point about regional WA! I guess we can also cross off regional SA as their WIN stations aren’t affiliated with Nine.
William Walker (7:19pm), I imagine that because Nine owns NTD, you’d be getting GO! along with everyone else. OneHD was a different matter because the local Ten affiliate is co-owned by Nine & Southern Cross, & not by Ten themselves…
Does anyone know when GO and onehd will be available through optus cable tv for those who don’t get free to air reception?
Bogues – I could be wrong, but I believe it is due to the areas where regional and metro signals “overlap” – the gold coast being one – so that say, for example, a prime and seven signal are not on the same digital channel.
@David- So that means no more WIN HD, right?
And also, because Channel 80 was a hd channel will i be able to record GO! on my SD recorder?
David (or someone else): Can you explain to us lay people why regional channels have different channel numbers for the digital channels (eg. 50 for One, and 80 or 88 for Go!). It seems rather silly, but I’m sure there is a good reason.
I hope I am wrong in my earlier statement stating Darwin may never get GO!99. But I am afraid to ask any more questions in case I may be bitterly disappointed. But remember usually big captials get something new first and regionals later, and that’s the way how the system works unfortunately. Patience is the key I suppose.
I see there’s no “* except Western Australia” in their press statement. Man, they pi** me off. The big wigs have probably forgotten that they run an analog only service on a third of the continent, and that all these viewers won’t be “WINning” within weeks. It’ll be years ’til Go! starts out west. There’s only one transmitter per site for all commercial digital services, with enough room for 3, maybe 4 channels.
As many of you would know with the experience of Freeview and ONE HD, such announcements like this always raise more questions than they answer. So quetions about NBN, HD, breakaways, WA, Mildura etc etc are still an unknown factor.
Experience has told me this stuff takes some time to sort through and that spokespersons are usually just as in the dark as the rest of them til someone in technical can talk them through it.
Patience guys….
Well, knowing that NBN is owned by Nine, this Press Release from WIN now confirms that Nine’s main affiliates are now on board. Good news!
Yet, I wonder what NT-based Imparja will do with GO!?
Also, I’d like to know what a ’soft launch’ is. Being the cynical guy I am; a soft launch might just mean the transmission of a GO! test-card with the complete catalogue of Michael Bolton’s “music” as its backing…
GO! away.
This channel is annoying me.
Channel Seven, show us what you’ve made on and put Nine back in it’s place.
So will it be going to HD or second SD?
So is this WIN in Perth / Adelaide – or Regional WIN as well?
(And will WIN in Mildura mean TEN Mildura might also get ONE HD?)
But if I see one episode of Two And A Half Men or Gordon Ramseys ugly mug on GO I will be taking it to the commisioner, lol !
Gees, so loyal to Nine all of a sudden. Especially when WIN’s South Aust. stations (excl. NWS9) run 7 programming 100% and WIN WA (excl. STW9) run so much TEN programming – Life, Talk to Me, Law & Order, MasterChef, Merlin, Neighbours, etc.
“Warners produce the best international programming across-the-board, no question”. Right! That’s why you replace so much of it with CBS-Paramount, NBC-Universal and other programming.
Does that include WIN in WA or they still are not getting digital?
So 80 is their HD channel, like ONE HD most will not be able to record and watch the shows when they want. I hope 88 happens as this would be the SD channel.
It may not seam like much but with the growing number of channels you need to be able to record some shows that conflict with others.
Thanks for keeping us up to date David…
Yeh I heard on ACA last night that GO would be airing on WIN-HD, so they’ll be the lucky ones in getting a hi-def version of Nine SD2. I hope they put trouble in paradise back on when the channel launches.
Also, I wonder if 9HD will still have its midday HD break aways, or, if 9HD will consist of a mixture of GO and the Main channel.
Personally, I really hope 7 doesn’t copy 9 and bring out another ‘general entertainment channel’ it would be much better to branch out like Ten did with ONEhd, they could go for a movie channel or a News channel (yes I know ABC wants to dedicate ABC 4, 5 or 6 to news, but that won’t be for years, so why doesn’t 7 jump the gun) Or they could give their 2nd SDC to Sky News.
ps. Whatever happened to A-PAC on digital?
It will have to move to 88 next year or run foul of its HD content requirements on 80.
It’s a shame if they truly are putting GO! on 80, as WIN is the only regional who offers both HD Breakaway’s and 5.1 sound. Let’s hope they just follow Nine and put it on 88 from the start.
I wonder if WIN will have dual branding or keep it as GO!
What about NBN?
Grimshaw only mentioned 9 and WIN on ACA last night. Ridiculous if NBN aren’t getting it.
Don’t know how much to trust this, but here goes: reception at NBN knows fully-well what GO! is, and said NBN will be launching it in August.
We’ll see…. says Mr Scepticism.
So with channel 80 switching to GO on SD transmission, does that mean that Canberra viewers will lose all HD transmissions of the 9 network…??? Eg we have never received NRL or Cricket in HD…