ONE to launch March 26
TEN will launch ONE, its 24 hour high definition sports channel, on March 26th.
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Network TEN has announced its 24-hour sports channel, ONE, will launch on Thursday 26 March 2009 at 7.30pm.
TEN says the opening weekend will include:
• AFL‘s much anticipated first-round showdown between Richmond and Carlton will be the first sporting event to air on ONE in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, with the match to be broadcast simultaneously on ONE and TEN.
• Also on 26 March, ONE will broadcast an exclusive Swimming Australia SKINS event showcasing the Australian Swimming Team and international stars, including Olympic gold medallists Oussama Mellouli and Therese Alshammar. The SKINS event will be shown first in the Sydney and Brisbane markets, with coverage in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth following the AFL.
• Then, ONE will feature live and extended coverage of the Formula 1 ING Australian Grand Prix over the
launch weekend with more than 22 hours of action across Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Full details of the schedule for ONE will be announced closer to launch. TEN also promises:
• Extended versions of the ‘must-watch’ show for sports fans, Sports Tonight.
• More extensive coverage of domestic and international sport than ever seen before on Australian free-to-air television, including AFL, motor sport (Formula 1, Moto GP, NASCAR), netball, cricket, swimming, golf, NFL, NBA Major League Baseball, NCAA College Basketball and Football, and others.
• New, locally produced shows.
Network TEN’s General manager of sport, David White, said “We know our opening weekend will give viewers a sensational introduction to ONE, and mark the beginning of a lifetime’s habit of essential sports viewing.”
This means March 26 is also the date that TEN’s other programming will no longer be available in high definition.
ONE will broadcast from 26 March 2009 in High Definition (HD) on Channel 1 and also in Standard Definition (SD) on Channel 12.
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So as far as Freeview is concerned, I assume that Ten and ONE count as 2 channels only (Simil cast channels should not count otherwise you couls say there are 20 channels on free to air digital now!). Therefore the 15 they promise is very wrong unless ABC3 happens…
Good on 10 for giving it a go. Alternative 10HD programs, though, have gone where?
I think I speak on behalf of the majority of TV geeks when I say: Boooo Hiiiisssss
Goodbye to any show I watch on Ten in HD…
R.I.P. to all the alternate shows that used to be shown in TENHD…
Farewell late night HD movies…
As I have said in the past, I have nothing against networks taking advantage of their HD channel and new standard definition channel, but to completely replace it with an all sports channel is just ludicrous. Why they wouldn’t broadcast it solely on their new standard definition channel is beyond me! By doing this Ten are completely alienating the majority of their viewers and taking away HD from their flagstaff station. It still boggles my mind thinking about it. No doubt the backlash will be significant when people can’t watch any of their favourite shows in HD. Let’s hope that the other networks will learn from Ten’s mistake…
That’s excellent news. Can’t wait for this channel. Although what will happen to all the shows Ten dumped to their HD channel. Pysch in particular.
“AFL’s much anticipated first-round showdown between Richmond and Carlton will be the first sporting event to air on ONE in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, with the match to be broadcast simultaneously on ONE and TEN.”
— So this means that the same show is broadcast on three channels if you include ONE-SD similcast (not mentioned). How ridiculous!!!!
What a waste of bandwith. HD channels should be a similcast of the SD channel for all networks now they have a new SD channel. Last night Scrubs which is now in 16×9 HD was only on the SD channel.
Hope ONE-HD/SD fails before end of the year.
If I remember to re-scan my set top box and tv tuner card , then I will check it out, but I will most likely forget about it. 🙂
Will they also be launching their own One website for this like they have with Ten.com.au?
Now all we need is for Channel Ten to realise that the reason watch sports – is to watch them Live, and not on a 1 hour delay because the network was too lazy to adjust schedules for Daylight Savings and the like.
Until they do that I won’t be giving this the time of day.
It’s not like TenHD exists anymore, it’s nothing more than a mere logo.
Ten still has not explained what they are going to do with local programs currently produced in HD (e.g. Neighbours). Will they still be produced in HD, or will they still be made in SD with all the HD cameras to be used in Ten’s sports coverage only? And what about overseas programs and movies produced in HD?
Richard – College football and basketball is massively popular (they get up to 100000 people to some football games) and will be watched by probably most people in Australia who watch the NBA and NFL as they showcase the next big stars ready to get drafted and make the move up to the professional leagues.
looking forward to one hd, sound like a great sports line up (richard w there are people who like baskeball and nfl) but its is a same that other shows will now no longer be in hd, if the government would give ten two hd channels then everyone would be happy( one for one hd and one for hd simulcast of tens other shows: law and order etc. wonder if one sd on channel 12 will be availble on foxtel (abc2 is)
good to be able to read a proper forum about this channel if you go to the forums on the ten website about one hd its all just personal attacks. because no one reviews the posts you can say anything you want even if it irrelevant or offensive and it still gets posted ,whats the point of a forum if ten don’t even cheek whats up there.
Considering Ten’s decent start to the year, I think they should re-consider showing sport 24/7 on the HD channel.
My choice would be to show HD sport on weekends only.
So One will be shown as both a HD & SD channel.
Hangon a minute. This means we are not getting 15 free channels. Only 14 cause I dont count a channel repeated twice as two new services.
Do the channels actually think people will be happy with this B.S.
I can just see it now. I get bored with the AFL on Channel 10 so then I can turn it over to the other channel ten channels and watch the AFL on them ones.
Come on. Television in Australia is a disgrace.
My mind boggles – didn’t Ten heavily promote their HD channel when it was launched for Drama, movies etc.
Great to see that I spent money on a high def tv and I won’t be able to watch my Channel 10 favourites on it anymore.
What stops a broadcaster having multiple HD channels?
Poor move Ten. Poor. Move.
While I am looking forward to the motorsports, I’m still very disappointed that TenHD will be gone.
I am hoping this channel is also on Southern Cross Digital. I will be pissed if it isn’t. I live in Cairns and SC10HD is just on continous loop of pictures. It is a joke. I rang SC10 and they have no idea.
No mention of tennis. I was hoping the tournaments they got were ‘1000’ events, i don’t think so now as one of those start that weekend they are launching ONE.
Silly that TEN is not making ONE HD a truly Australian-wide service – so while Melb/Adel/Perth get the AFL, Syd/Bris get a swimming event. Surely ONE HD’s programs should be the same Australia wide. Live AFL in Sydney/Brisbane on ONE HD – if not, whats the point of a 24 hour sports channel that will delay a major Australian sport in certain markets?
22 hours of F1 over 3 day, I just hope the channel is available in WideBay as we’ve been waiting over a year to get 10HD here!
It’s really frustrating because last Sunday Network TEN provided an alternate to sport with The Biggest Loser/SYTYCD/Election which was great for those in the Australia who didn’t want to watch Tennis or Cricket.
Sure the alternate is still there, however the bonus of having that alternate content in HD is now gone. They have some great shows on at the moment so it will be a real shame when the HD option disappears.
I think it would have been better to have ONE as a SD channel with TenHD being a hybrid of Channel Ten simulcast and One simulcast content.
Good on Ten for surprising us with a March release.
NCAA College Basketball and Football (Gridiron)!?!? Who is going to watch this? Third division soccer in the UK would rate better!
No offence but too much American sport on here. All of the scrap that Fox Sports don’t want.
I don’t understand why they couldn’t just squeeze in all their sports programming on Ten HD. A majority of their schedule was made up of simulcasts anyway. :-/
What a waste.
this is good news for people that love sports – which i do
I feel for the people that don’t like it, so channel is no longer HD for non-sports programs 🙁
Will foxtel have OneHD on their HD package?
Thank you for your time