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Southern Cross confirms ELEVEN launch

Southern Cross viewers in Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT and Victoria will see ELEVEN on the same day as metropolitan areas.

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Southern Cross has now confirmed announce the arrival of Channel Eleven for regional Australia.

It will launch across its four aggregated markets of Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT and Victoria on the same day as TEN launches to metropolitan areas: January 11, 2011.

The news will come as good news to regional viewers who were awaiting clarification they would not miss out key episodes of favourite shows such as Neighbours, The Simpsons, Dexter, Supernatural and Nurse Jackie.

Southern Cross Media CEO Rhys Holleran said, “We’re thrilled to announce that we will be offering and launching Channel Eleven for regional viewers at the same time that metropolitan viewers will have access to this new service.

“With a stable of some of the most popular comedies and dramas, as well as iconic programs The Simpsons and Neighbours, Channel Eleven promises to be unlike any other multi-channel offering on Australian television- particularly given that there will be no program cross-over between Channel Eleven and Southern Cross TEN.

Meanwhile the government plans for other areas to access all Free to Air channels via its VAST satellite system in the future.
-ENDS-

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  1. well thats totally sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!! channel 11 not coming to regional SA… Why why why damn…. We are people too!!!!!!!!!! What about Neighbours god it going to be annoying having to watch it online

  3. Not long to go just over two weeks to launch.Looking foward to watching eleven very much.I will be watching this channel more than GO its goign to have some great shows on it old and new shows.Especially star trek and other sci fi shows.

  5. Simon, it was marked as 11 for two days and then they changed it back to Coming Soon. I sent Freeview an email about it and then they changed it back to Coming Soon and said it had not been confirmed yet. Typical I suppose we will have to wait until the last minutes again!

  7. On the Freeview site they have 11 marked on the channels for Tasmania and Darwin instead of Coming Soon, which it was a couple of days ago. Wonder if this is a mistake or if 11 has been confirmed now for these areas!

  9. I’m happy to hear this, but I kinda figured it out after the first dozen or so Eleven promos on SCTen Newcastle. Nice to know (some) regional viewers aren’t getting screwed this time around unlike the whole Ten HD thing. As usual Ten has grabbed the rights to a lot of shows I like but hopefully I’ll actually get to watch them now.

    Sydney already has their old One SD channel redone with promo/howto rescan video loops, I wonder how long Newcastle will leave it before they get the placeholder going.

    I’m kinda curious what LCN SC will choose. 51 or 55 seems like the most probably choice. They already have a redirect of SCTen on 55 here but seeing as the other networks have redirects of their main channel in their upper ranges maybe they’ll keep it.

  11. ONEHD has not had more bandwidth in SC10 land because they reduced it to the Ten level when Ten reduced it for ONESD introduction. As I’m able to watch both at the same time the PQ is identical.

  13. @ Otama, up till now SC10 has only had 2 channels, so ONEHD has had more bandwidth than the equivalent on TEN (which also had ONESD). But now with 11, the 3rd channel for SC10, ONEHD will lose bandwidth and therefore reduce quality.

  14. @digitalj – thanks for the explanation.

    I’m getting sick of the changes on Nine/Go!/GEM can’t wait for CH11 to start, added to that TENs plan to put sports related movies on ONE this could be a turn around for them.

  15. @Otama,

    This is a common misconception people have with DTV, just because 2 or more LCN’s (Logical Channel Numbers) are labelled “ONE HD” does not mean there are 2 or more streams of ONE HD, there is actually only 1, that being LCN 1. LCN 11 only “redirects” the tuner to LCN 1, much the same as all the “shortcuts” on your computers desktop.

  20. Thanks for the conformation David, I suspected something like this when I saw the 11 ads begin airing in Canberra (Proof I too watch way to much tele.)

    I’m looking forward to Stargate Universe.

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