WIN echoes the love for GO!
WIN confirms GO! for August, echoing the enthusiasm (literally) of Nine.
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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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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…