As GO! prepares to launch this Sunday, yesterday was the last day of breakout programming for 9HD -at least for the forseeable future.
From today 9HD will now simulcast Nine, as the network looks to direct its audience to alternative programming on the youth-skewed GO!
GO! will screen on Channel 99. The channel ‘soft-launches’ at 6:30pm Sunday with a new series of Wipeout but will broadcast test signals from Wednesday
Meanwhile regional viewers looking for GO! will find the channel on Ch. 88 on the WIN Network on the East Coast. WIN will broadcast the channel in its current broadcast areas in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania -with the exception of Griffith.
Earlier suggestions that it would begin on WIN HD are now shelved.
NBN viewers can also see GO! on 88 from the Central Coast to the Gold Coast.
Nine currently has a Helpline for people looking to access the channel: 1300 152 231 (bus. hours).
As part of the switch, a number of Nine shows are now available in high definition on 9HD simulcast.
A spokesperson from Nine told TV Tonight it expects GO!l to be added to the Foxtel platform ‘soon’, but was unable to detail any timeline.
Go 88 has died in Mackay. Blank screen, no sound. ZIP
Performed a rescan and now it isnt even selectable,,,doesnt exist anymore.
They don’t want you to. A public forum / messageboard is the most they will offer. Otherwise its phone or snail mail….
It would be nice if a) they put the correct shows on TV when it is in the weekend TV guide eg: Moonlight on Thursday night at 9-30, rather than change it at the last minute to 8-30.
b) how come websites these days, like GO’s official ones, never has a feedback form, email address or phone number – how the hell can you ever get in touch with them these days.
Pathetic programming!!
Bad enough with the multitude of ads, but the places the ads are spliced in leaves a lot to the imagination.
Yes, we have to imagine what the rest of the sentence might have been as the adverts ae placed in the middle of a sentence! Off course, to make up time for the endless promos, the continuation of the program is gone due to the cut pieces of programme.
What a farce!
How to lose your audience and engender anger towards the advertisers in one foul swoop!
Learn how to cut to ads professionally GO! (Or just GO away)
This doesn’t affect a lot of people but where are the captions for the hearing impaired? Last week my g/f watched gossip girl with captions & tonight they were not there for the show, but worked in the ads. WTF?
And to those who say get foxtel, the AFL Footy Show is not on foxtel or Austar! If the AFL want to push the code up here in FNQ then they’ve got to make it more accessible on free to air tv!
I live in Mackay, I moved up from Victoria and was always able to catch up with what was going on in the AFL on the AFL Footy Show & to a lesser extent Footy Classifieds but now they are both gone! No Win HD instead we have GO! on channel 88. Now there’s no AFL footy show until after midnight on win tv which is an absolute disgrace! Win hd is not running at the moment so they’ve taken away my Thursday night viewing ritual! I’m am so angry at this. I am encouraging everyone who cares about this to switch off win television until they start listening to what the viewer wants!
Absolutely crap that the AFL Footy Show wont be live. Very very disappointed 9.
GO! has a horribly low bitrate. I’ve heard it’s 3mb/s for the Eastern capitals. Once motion is involved, the picture dissolves into indistinguishable blocks. Up the bitrate please! Channel 10 runs a HD channel and two decent looking SD channels. I don’t see why Channel 9 should be any different. And put “Home Improvement” on! That’s a brilliant show.
Its public TV, what do you expect, you dont pay for it. Why complain about something u get for free, If ur not happy get foxtel.
Go! is absolute crap, even if it is ‘skewed’ for youth audiences. I may watch ‘Seinfeld’ occaisionally or ‘Tom and Jerry’ but, the rest of the program is ‘god-awful’
Channel 9 – you are an absolute disgrace. For the 1st time ever, we finally had access for footy classified & the AFL footy show at a reasonable hour, and then you go and take it off 9hd and replace it, with total crap on go….channel 9 can go & !!
How about repeat after repeat of The Big Bang Theory. How good is that!!!!!!!
Turn off you TV and get a life
Very disappointed , already on the first evening on air being brainwashed over and over again with these aggressive extreme noisy highspeed-audio hardy norten commercials.
Well 9 you have really upset a lot of people with this AFL Footy Show and Footy Classified off Win HD live. Way to ‘GO’ just before the finals start to kick off and the Gold Coast are trying to promote the game so they can get a big following for when they kick off. You have really done yourself proud. LOL
For those that want to petition to get AFL footy show live back in NSW and QLD join the following facebook group.
“Bring Back Live AFL Footy Show in NSW & QLD On 9 HD”
So angry!!! no more live AFL footy show in Sydney, Nine are hopeless.
I agree with others on here, in that northern AFL fans have been done over once again. I have greatly enjoyed being able to watch Footy Classified and the AFL footy show here in Brisbane. I certainly can’t stay up late enough to watch them now, and have no interest in watching rugby league programming.
Hopefully they will be shown on the new GO channel, although if history is anything to go by, this won’t be the case. Poor effort 9.
Well the “youth” thing for this channel is because teenagers mostly watch shows with drama.
Shows on this channel will be shows like The Hills, Gossip Girl, I Love Money, pretty much all shows that play on MTV on Austar and Foxtel. (read that on the official ‘GO!’ site)
I personally can’t wait for this channel!
I’m 16 by the way
@ Johnson
the reason griffith is not getting the go! channel is because they dont have WIN HD,and never will!
griffith has no 10 either and never will.
the only way they can get the GO channel is by receiving it from Wagga as wagga has both WIN SD and WIN HD
It’s on Channel 99… but wouldn’t the obvious option be Channel 90? Spelling the word “go”?
AFL footy show is still on 9HD after the NRL footy show (not live but still there)
Footy Classified has been taken away but maybe someone with a fraction of brain activity at CVC can tell DG to do the right thing (for once!)
I’m badly missing my I Dream Of Jeannie and Bewitched. They stopped yesterday, MOnday Aug 3rd.
I hope they really will be on the GO channel.
I don’t get the whole ‘youth’thing for this channel???
I’m 44?????
Johnson: Thanks for your answer.
Ads running on 9 and NBN tell everyone to rescan their digital tuners after 1pm Wed Aug 5. There’s also a help line to call if you have problems. After then 99 and 88 will be good to GO!
Bruce: WIN owns two stations in Griffith, one is a Nine affiliate (but also shows Ten’s AFL coverage) and the other a Seven affiliate. I think WIN’s decision not to transmit GO! in Griffith may have commercial or technical reasons?
WIN HD (HD Loop demo) still on here in SE QLD and just did a scan, NO 88 yet. Will try later in the week.
Still called 9 Guide in Sydney.
I always wondered why Foxtel users complained about new FTA channels not being immediately added to Foxtel. But I now realise that some people with foxtel get it instead of having an aerial installed. Which makes sense, as installing an aerial isn’t the cheapest option, plus some areas don’t get great reception (which for digital means constant ‘no signal’ messages instead of a slightly fuzzy but still audible analogue broadcast).
Test pattern already on WIN88 in Wollongong. Just has the launch details, logo, some background music and a voice over congratulating you for “successfully” tuning to GO! – Yay me!
Hopefully when WINHD returns they will show the NRL in HD like 9 does as well as other sports.
Otherwise WINHD will be nothing else but a demo channel for the Canadian country side and totally irrelevant to Australian viewers.
@Andy,
“A spokesperson from Nine told TV Tonight it expects GO!l to be added to the Foxtel platform ’soon’, but was unable to detail any timeline.
Hmm, this sounds like a couple of months at least before we see it on foxtel, why the holdup, then?”
Because the new satellite has to go up, should be ready for foxtel sometime in sept, this time next month if we are lucky
Say goodbye to that hideous logo!
A spokesperson from Nine told TV Tonight it expects GO!l to be added to the Foxtel platform ’soon’, but was unable to detail any timeline.
Hmm, this sounds like a couple of months at least before we see it on foxtel, why the holdup, then?
+1 for the disappointment at the re-programming of the AFL footy show up here in QLD. I actually applauded Nine for doing something right for once, only to get it taken away even before the season has finished.
If only there was a way to really show nine what a bunch of scumsucking, audience disregarding, money hungry operation they really are.
First they wrecked the cricket and now this……
Footy Classified and the AFL Footy Show are gone from yourTV, ice tv ect. So it would seem that AFL fans are going to get screwed over again in the Northern States.
Maybe NineHD/WIN-HD/NBN-HD will take its cues from ABC-HD? What I mean by that is they may just broadcast one single news bulletin from Sydney at 6pm? Could be good for people outside NSW that like a bit of choice…
For people getting WIN HD this will be turned off this week to make room for GO! on ch88, WIN HD will be back later once the new GO! channel is up and running, I don’t know if this applies in the capital cities where they get Nine HD on ch90.
“3. Will the WIN Television High Definition service be affected?
Yes, to allow for the launch of GO!, WIN will temporarily cease the transmission of our current High Definition service. This will occur on Monday August 3rd. This change will be temporary and WIN Television’s High Definition service will return to your television screens very soon.”
The WIN TV website has all the info you need on this topic.
So that’s it for the AFL Footy Show and Footy Classified live into Brisbane. It was good while it lasted I guess.
Yay that means The View will be back in HD!
What will happen to the live broadcast of the AFL Footy Show in Sydney now? It used to be on HD at the same time as in Victoria.
i would rather see ninehd be a simulcast rather than the stupid set up they had before, where nine shows that used to be simulcast in hd where replaced by sd programming, although it would be good if ninehd showed alternative hd programming during sd programmes, as long as they still simulcast their hd programming. also cant wait for go!, as their are many shows there that interest me.
Wow Neon your hatred for 9 is oh so consuming…how do you sleep at night, and when did they can you??? LOL and no i dont work for 9, I dont work for anyof the Networks, but i do like TEN a bit
David, why is Griffith missing out of getting the GO! channel?
GO! is not HD and has no shows in HD. Anything advising this is a misprint.
When a programme is in high definition from Nine it will be in high definition on 90 – that’s precisely what the HD channel is for, and what it should be doing.
There are 2x SD channels and 1x HD channel. The only reason Nine and Seven were showing things on 9HD and 7HD as “breakaways” was because there wasn’t another channel up and running – now there is.
Who knows what Seven will do with 7HD when their new channel gets up and running – they don’t know themselves what they’re doing, or so it seems.
@Michael Money would be the main reason
@Neon Where are these test signals you talk of?
Also I was just looking in my copy of TV Week and I noticed the second program to air “The Big Bang Theory” at 7:30 Aug 9th it is listed as HD, could they be airing Go! on the HD channel 90 aswell? Or is it just a misprint… several programs listed on Go! have (HD) next to it.
2 channels and not 3,
all the networks are allowed to run 3 multichannels,
so why dont they,
whats going on?
Im a bit disappointed at the cessation of 9HD breakaways. I was getting into the Seinfeld in HD. It looked so good. Oh well, sd is better than nothing
All those NineHD repeats are going to turn up on “GO!!” aren’t they?
As for the HD channel, Craig,, they’re not turning it off. They’re simply making it a HD mirror of the main channel. Presumably for technical reasons.
What I’d like to see them do is use 9HD for HD programming from both the main Nine channel *and* “Go”.
And I still can’t get used to the stupid channel name.
You people these shows such as Bewitched Charlies Angels, Just Shoot Me, Seinfeld, Kids WB etc will be back in a week on 9 GO, you don’t need to worry at all!
I think Neon’s right.
I believe there has been no test pattern on Nine since… 1976.
Maybe someone can back me up on this.
bit of a shame as tragic as it sounds i was actually enjoying watching the daily repeats of bewitched on 9 HD
Is Go! a high Def channel or just a standard Def Channel?
right now my EPG for channel 90 is showing the programming that is supposed to be on GO, and the EPG for 99 shows nothing beyond now and next, i guess they will fix this on wednesday when they change the channel name from “nine guide” to “go”.
still we have not got a commercial network with 3 separate channels, all they did this year when they were allowed to have 3 was go from a second one that was part time to a 24 hour independant second channel. when they allow them to have 4 channels maybe we will finally get 3.
I wonder why NBN are using a new channel 88, instead of channel 81 that has been simulcasting SD 8 since digital began?
These people do realise that everytime they mess with channel allocations, they annoy the living bejeezuz out of every resident of every retirement village in the nation? (plus their poor offspring who have to go retune all their TVs and set top boxes)
I find it ironic that everyone is touting HDTV and here Nine had to turn of the HD signal so it can get the 2nd SD on the air.
So much for FreeView, take one channel to add another…
I was rather enjoying 9 HD. As I liked Just Shoot Me!, Seinfeld, Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie. I guess I have to buy the DVDs.
I also enjoyed Kids WB and thought that the version of it only shown on the HD channel had a much better line-up of shows.
9 HD were the only channel to pay tribute to the late but great Farrah Fawcett by showing episodes of Charlie’s Angels, on both Saturday (10:30-12:30pm) and Sunday (11:00am-12:00pm) mornings.
Wow, test signals! So 1975!
So this could thankfully mean the end of “Nine… HD… hd… hd… hd…” which in itself was, well, so 1975. Dreamweaver, and all that
Here’s hoping that Nine intelligently uses the HD channel for showing HD programs from both regular bogan Nine and the new “Go” channel.