Trial over 9NOW Live streaming to begin in April
A judge declines to grant an injunction to halt 9NOW Live streaming, but says both sides have compelling arguments.
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A NSW Supreme Court judge has declined to grant WIN TV an injunction and order Nine to halt its Live streaming service 9NOW.
But he said both sides had a compelling case and has brought forward a trial from April 13 to April 4 and set it down for three days.
WIN claims Nine streaming into its market areas is damaging its business and advertisers.
The Australian Financial Review reports it was attempting to have Nine stop streaming into its regional broadcast areas by using the postcodes that 9Now asks for during registration for the service. However, Nine argued that that would be impossible and it would have to shut its whole live streaming service down.
Nine’s barrister Noel Huntley told the court that there was no evidence that WIN could not sell its advertising slots because of 9NOW.
The case follows other regional broadcasters also protesting at Live streaming by Free to Air networks into their markets.
9NOW began streaming Live in January.
Yesterday WIN TV mogul Bruce Gordon was revealed as the mystery buyer behind a recent raid of Nine shares.