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SKY News coming to WIN TV markets

A dedicated SKY News channel with a mix of Live & replay highlights is coming to regional Australia.

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Regional viewers in WIN TV markets will be getting SKY News content with a dedicated channel later this year.

It will feature a mix of Live & replay highlights and marks the first time SKY News will screen on Free to Air.

The new “SKY News on WIN” channel will broadcast into 29 markets across six states via the WIN Network including regional areas of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Australian Capital Territory and state-wide across Tasmania. It will screen on channel 83 across WIN’s regional network and channel 53 across Northern NSW.

Angelos Frangopoulos, CEO Australian News Channel said: “The content supply agreement with the WIN Network is an historic moment for our company providing, for the first time, the opportunity to showcase the depth and breadth of the news, sports news, weather news and public affairs content available on our premium SKY News channels on Foxtel to even more Australians. SKY News will also deliver unique content to Australians in regional areas. We look forward to announcing that in coming weeks.”

Andrew Lancaster, CEO WIN Network said: “WIN is proud of its position as Australia’s most prolific producer of quality regional news content and this new agreement with ANC will allow WIN to strengthen its commitment to informing regional Australians. As well as producing 16 dedicated local news bulletins, WIN is now giving regional Australians the complete local, national and international news, sport and current affairs stories across their day.”

In addition, SKY News will have the ability to broadcast local WIN News content and WIN News will also have access to SKY News national affairs content.

Further announcements will be made regarding the program line-up.

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  3. It hasn’t been a static image for a while. There’s currently a promo loop running on channel 83.

    It saddens me that people label Sky News “propaganda” and seek to have an outlet that broadcasts opinion that differs from theirs silenced. I don’t agree with some of the opinions expressed by their talking heads but I know where the off switch is. Too many people lack tolerance these days and think that we all have to think the same way. We live in dangerous times.

  4. No no no, we don’t want your Murdoch propaganda channel here. If I did, I’d get foxtel. Why do they think we would want that? If they want to give us foxtel content give us their decent dramas, not their ‘news’.

  6. Phew l need more news. You don’t get much these days with ABC News Channel, the morning and brekkie shows, evening news, the current affairs shows. Thank God l get another lol

  7. Just a question regarding the welcome introduction of Sky News UK, why is Sky News UK HD (ch 605) so much clearer than Sky News Aus HD (ch 600), it is so much more noticeable after 1am when both channels are the same. Surely Sky Aus could introduce a slightly smaller ticker across the bottom of the screen also, it does look too big when you compare the 2 channels.

    1. I believe there are a couple issues at play here.
      1) I don’t think all of the Sky News Aus studios and equipment is HD. A lot is, but some doesn’t seem to be. I agree about the large and not-smooth-at-all ticker.
      2) The UK feed they run on Sky News Aus overnight is zoomed in to avoid having some elements of the British graphics covered up by the Sky News Aus ticker and some elements not covered up. Zooming in naturally reduces the picture quality, especially if the zoom is not proportional to the image resolution thus requiring some pixels to appear more times than others or other forms of interpolation. It also looks as if the UK feed being used on the Australian channel overnight is SD, so even without zooming it wouldn’t look great being upscaled to HD. Add the zoom and the results…well, you see for yourself how unpleasant they are.

  8. It will be the end of Win news as we know it next thing will be sky will be producing all of win regional news broadcasts putting a whole bunch of people on Centrelink payments in Wollongong what else could WIN be thinking broadcasting this right wing liberal party propaganda disguised as news from new south limited foxtel where the only qualification to be an on air presenter is to show your liberal party memebership badge .there goes what little credibility WIN news had .

      1. Oh, by the way WIN, the ’90s called and wants the blanking you’ve added to the left and right side of the SD edition of the ‘WIN’ channel back.

  12. “SKY News will have the ability to broadcast local WIN News content” giving SKY regional news access they can’t cover in a timely way now. May one say win-win?
    Now, TEN…could this ultimately replace TEN Eyewitness News on WIN?

    1. My first thought exactly Jason. And over time, the current WIN produced bulletins will be axed too and replaced with Sky News produced tokenistic pap.
      Wonder if Seven and Nine will end their supply of footage to Sky News now when this starts to stop such footage being aired by WIN via Sky?

  13. So at long last those few megabits/sec WIN has been dedicating to ‘WIN Television’ with a static picture will finally be put to better use.

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