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This is what WA regional viewers are now watching

Riverboats in Echuca, waves lapping on the Sapphire Coast -it's video loops for WA regional viewers.

Regional viewers in WA are now being entertained with lovely footage of riverboats in Echuca, waves lapping the shores of the Sapphire Coast and the cliffs jutting the ocean beside the Grand Pacific Highway in New South Wales.

You can see how the failure to reach a deal between Nine / WIN and Prime in rural WA took effect at midnight last night at the 3:00 minute mark of this video posted at Media Spy.

Endless video loops has left WA newspapers and radio trying to explain to angry viewers what has happened to Nine shows -the day before a federal election.

Nine, Southern Cross, TEN, WIN: affiliate changes

All three media parties say they are hopeful of an outcome, but behind the scenes fingers are pointing to Bruce Gordon’s WIN Television, which has had frosty dealings with Nine of late.

Just how long this game of brinkmanship over affiliate fees will last is anyone’s guess.

Perhaps in the meantime, viewers may watch some lovely vision of Bermuda, to see how the other half live?

16 Responses

  1. This old WIN HD ad-replacement footage is still better than another channel of Gold 🙂

    In other news, WIN has launched a placeholder channel on it’s Ten mux for reasons I can’t discern. I expect it has something to do with stopping errors on some devices.

  2. I was just checking my EPG and for a split second channel 54 was called Gem and 55 was called GO!, the titles then suddenly reverted back to West Digital when I clicked on them.

    1. Yes, the channels were renamed to Nine, GO! and GEM at the stroke of midnight, but were renamed to West Digital 1, 2 and 3 about 2 hours later. Technicians were obviously prepared for Nine to come on board but didn’t get the memo in time.

    1. Considering it was Nine who dumped WIN so Nine could gouge 50% of revenue from SCA, forcing WIN to go to TEN, one assumes your fingers are pointing to Nine here?

    2. Some? Think you’ll find that $ is all that any TV network owner, or their board, cares about. That and tenure.

      Nine served up a sh!t sandwich to Bruce Gordon and are now being made to slowly eat it. For no good reason other than greed, they attempted to screw more of his profits from him for the privilege of re-transmitting their mostly low-brow bland gruel. At the same time, they were undermining his business by streaming their content into WIN’s broadcast area via the internet.

      As with the Lebanese kidnapping, this is all of Nine’s own doing and I have zero sympathy for them.

  3. It’s probably rating better than what WIN had to suffer in WA with Nine programs consistently at the bottom of the heap. From Perth ratings – Hot Seat 41K, Chase 94K, TEN News 87K. 9 News 88K, FFeud 96K, 7 News 187K, Love Child 70K, HYBPA 113K, House Rules 190K. The Voice 82K, MChef 143K, etc., etc., so don’t know where the Nine spin “Nine’s top ratings programs such as The Voice, Love Child, the Today show and Nine’s nightly news” fits in. Maybe elsewhere but certainly not in WA.
    Let’s not forget that it was Nine who dumped WIN. Anyway, “Nine said WA viewers could still access content by downloading the 9Now App to watch our programs live or on catch up”. That, and losing a court case, is not endearing WIN to Nine anymore.

    1. Don’t they still have ABC, ABC2, ABC3, ABC24, SBS, SBS2, NITV, WIN/TEN, 11, One, GWN7, 7Two, 7mate ++? I count about 15 channels already. Nine programs are streamed (which is part of the issue) for anyone who really needs them.

      1. Lol streaming in country WA, were our par time place is(coastal town) there is no NBN, No Wireless NBN and telstra refused us a standard dialup line our only option is 3g mobile, streaming what a joke.

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