WIN buys northern NSW TV from Southern Cross
Southern Cross offloading TV operations in Newcastle, Tamworth & Northern Rivers for $55m.
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Southern Cross is selling its northern NSW operations in Newcastle, Tamworth and Northern Rivers Lismore, Coffs Harbour) to WIN Corporation for $55m.
WIN will hand over $45m up front and a further $10m one year later.
But there will be minimal impact for viewers, with the NNSW stations already syndicating TEN content.
Last year Southern Cross aligned with Nine, paying them 50% of the advertising revenue it generates as a result of broadcasting Nine’s signal to regional Queensland, Southern NSW and regional Victoria. But that deal did not extend to northern NSW where Southern Cross retained an affiliation deal with TEN that does not expire until June 30 2021.
Protracted negotiations had also included the sale of WIN’s i98FM Wollongong radio station to Southern Cross, but has not been included in this sale.
Source: Mumbrella, The Australian
14 Responses
This is a Win-Win for Northern NSW!
is that the end of SC10 branding?
is that the end of southern cross 10 branding ?
Wow!
WIN finally in Northern NSW
Great News!! Does that mean we will get a longer local news bulletin on TEN?
you probably get Win news @ 6.00 replacing family feud
It doesn’t matter because you won’t be able to see whatever it is behind the massive opaque WIN bug plastered over your screen.
Welcome to WIN Television, just in case you forget, they plaster their logo on everything. A huge Blue and White logo on the main channel and WIN stuck on top of the one and eleven logos. Very distracting.
Why shouldn’t they plaster their logo as you put it on everything . Seven nine and ten do so why not WIN . It gives a local identity to the station . Look at nine Wollongong for all we know it’s a relay from Sydney no local identification whatsoever .
You haven’t seen the size of it yet…
It’s not the fact that they identify their channels, but they are all (one and 11 as well) full colour huge solid logos. Extremely distracting from trying to view what’s actually on the screen.
You obviously haven’t seen it. There’s no comparison of the Nine, Prime and ABC translucent watermarks with the hideous solid blue and white WIN logo. For the first six months WIN copied the discreet circle TEN-style watermark. Why the need for change?
Now, that’s news!
He’s been after it since 2007 when, in a bidding war, he forced Nine/PBL/NEC to pay $250 million for Newcastle’s NBN which essentially covers the same territory from North Sydney to South Brisbane and up thru New England.