94-516: West Digital Television is an Australian digital television network jointly owned by Seven West Media and WIN Corporation . It broadcasts free-to-air on a number of digital terrestrial transmitters in regional and remote areas of Western Australia , as well as free-to-view on the Viewer Access Satellite Television service. The network began as an affiliate of Network 10 , remaining so until 1 July 2016, when it switched to
188-552: A 16:9 aspect ratio. HDTV cannot be transmitted over analog television channels because of channel capacity issues. SDTV, by comparison, may use one of several different formats taking the form of various aspect ratios depending on the technology used in the country of broadcast. NTSC can deliver a 640 × 480 resolution in 4:3 and 854 × 480 in 16:9 , while PAL can give 768 × 576 in 4:3 and 1024 × 576 in 16:9 . However, broadcasters may choose to reduce these resolutions to reduce bit rate (e.g., many DVB-T channels in
282-495: A 1990 FIFA World Cup broadcast in March 1990. An American company, General Instrument , also demonstrated the feasibility of a digital television signal in 1990. This led to the FCC being persuaded to delay its decision on an advanced television (ATV) standard until a digitally based standard could be developed. When it became evident that a digital standard might be achieved in March 1990,
376-402: A scattering effect as the digital processing dithers and is unable to consistently allocate a value of either absolute black or the next step up the greyscale. Changes in signal reception from factors such as degrading antenna connections or changing weather conditions may gradually reduce the quality of analog TV. The nature of digital TV results in a perfectly decodable video initially, until
470-649: A standard-definition television (SDTV) signal, and over 1 Gbit/s for high-definition television (HDTV). In the mid-1980s, Toshiba released a television set with digital capabilities, using integrated circuit chips such as a microprocessor to convert analog television broadcast signals to digital video signals, enabling features such as freezing pictures and showing two channels at once . In 1986, Sony and NEC Home Electronics announced their own similar TV sets with digital video capabilities. However, they still relied on analog TV broadcast signals, with true digital TV broadcasts not yet being available at
564-429: A subwoofer bass channel, producing broadcasts similar in quality to movie theaters and DVDs. Digital TV signals require less transmission power than analog TV signals to be broadcast and received satisfactorily. DTV images have some picture defects that are not present on analog television or motion picture cinema, because of present-day limitations of bit rate and compression algorithms such as MPEG-2 . This defect
658-515: A "coming soon" test pattern on channels 85 and 86 on 10 February 2016. Both channels began broadcasting on 1 March 2016. As a result, their channel listing was reshuffled to match Nine's metropolitan with 9Gem on channel 82, 9Go! on channel 83, 9Life on channel 84, Extra on channel 85, and Gold on channel 86. The network continued to produce its own local news service, WIN News , for most of its markets throughout its Nine affiliation, although requests for increased revenue by Nine repeatedly threatened
752-537: A TV set in the following year. The digital television transition, migration to high-definition television receivers and the replacement of CRTs with flat screens are all factors in the increasing number of discarded analog CRT-based television receivers. In 2009, an estimated 99 million analog TV receivers were sitting unused in homes in the US alone and, while some obsolete receivers are being retrofitted with converters, many more are simply dumped in landfills where they represent
846-485: A deal was secured on 28 March 2017 for the sole sale of NRN to WIN for $ 55 million. The sale took effect on 31 May 2017; NRN was rebranded as WIN on 1 September 2017, with playout and transmission transferred to WIN, while the LCNs were reshuffled to align with WIN's other stations, although they stayed as 5-numbered due to 8-numbering already held by Nine-owned NBN Television for Northern NSW. On 28 May 2018, WIN announced
940-926: A direct feed from Nine, excluding WIN News. The only local programming broadcast by the WIN Network as of 2023 consists of half-hour local WIN News bulletins for its Nine stations in Regional Queensland, Southern New South Wales, Griffith, Regional Victoria, and Tasmania, as well as short news updates for its Ten station in northern New South Wales. WIN News is the network's local news service. Fourteen regional bulletins and news updates are presented from studios in Wollongong , with reporters and camera crews based in district newsrooms. In most markets, WIN News may compete with Seven News or Nightly News . WIN has produced independent news reports and bulletins since 1962 for its original Wollongong station. As well as
1034-417: A geographically large portion of regional and remote Australia through owned-and-operated stations including RTQ Queensland, NRN Northern New South Wales, WIN Southern New South Wales & ACT, VTV Victoria, TVT Tasmania, MTN Griffith, STV Mildura, SES Mount Gambier, RTS Riverland, and WOW Western Australia. WIN's high-definition channel, WIN HD , originally launched on 17 March 2008 as
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#17330924891721128-481: A mixture of Seven and existing WIN programming, commencing on 1 October 2007. WIN also started producing some local Australian programmes to replace key Nine content, including Alive and Cooking and Susie , as well as the independently sourced The Ellen DeGeneres Show . WIN also produced Fishing Australia as part of its local content output on the WIN Network. Two years later, WIN officially reinstated its supply of Nine content to regional South Australia with
1222-436: A more efficient means of converting filmed programming into digital formats. For their part, the consumer electronics industry and broadcasters argued that interlaced scanning was the only technology that could transmit the highest quality pictures then (and currently) feasible, i.e., 1,080 lines per picture and 1,920 pixels per line. Broadcasters also favored interlaced scanning because their vast archive of interlaced programming
1316-508: A new programme supply agreement with the Australian News Channel to carry Sky News Australia content on a new free-to-air channel, Sky News on WIN , which launched on 2 September 2018. The channel consisted of mixed Sky News and Fox Sports News programming, along with WIN's All Australian News, while Sky programmes gained access to WIN's regional news stories. WIN converted TVSN to MPEG-4 SD on 30 August 2018, two days before
1410-569: A new supplementary channel, WIN SA, relaying NWS from Adelaide. On 9 August 2009, WIN began transmission of the new digital channel GO! on channel 88 in Southern NSW, Regional Victoria, Tasmania, and Regional Queensland. It soon reached Mildura in 2010 and regional SA in 2011. In June 2010, playout was moved from WIN's Wollongong headquarters to its new Media Hub facility in the south-west Sydney suburb of Ingleburn , co-owned with ABC Television . On 26 September 2010, WIN began transmission of
1504-846: A programme supply agreement with metropolitan broadcaster Nine Network , covering its stations in Regional Queensland , Southern and Western New South Wales , Griffith , Regional Victoria , Mildura , Tasmania , Eastern South Australia , and Regional Western Australia . WIN also has a programme supply agreement with third-placed metropolitan broadcaster Network 10 for its Northern New South Wales station. WIN also produces and broadcasts weeknight half-hour local news bulletins across its Queensland, southern New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania markets as WIN News . Through its many television broadcast licences, WIN re-broadcasts metropolitan network content into regional Australian markets, as follows: Television Wollongong Transmission Limited (TWT)
1598-463: A single HDTV feed or multiple lower-resolution feeds is often referred to as distributing one's bit budget or multicasting. This can sometimes be arranged automatically, using a statistical multiplexer . With some implementations, image resolution may be less directly limited by bandwidth; for example in DVB-T , broadcasters can choose from several different modulation schemes, giving them the option to reduce
1692-410: A single frame often results in black boxes in several subsequent frames, making viewing difficult. For remote locations, distant channels that, as analog signals, were previously usable in a snowy and degraded state may, as digital signals, be perfectly decodable or may become completely unavailable. The use of higher frequencies add to these problems, especially in cases where a clear line-of-sight from
1786-488: A sister to the Nine Network's rebranded high-definition simulcast, 9HD . WIN HD broadcast in 1080i high definition and was available on WIN's regional stations, RTQ Queensland, WIN Southern New South Wales and ACT, VTV Victoria, and TVT Tasmania. The channel broadcast breakaway programming from launch until 3 August 2009, when it was turned into a straight HD simulcast. WIN HD fully ceased broadcasting on 26 September 2010 with
1880-615: A source of toxic metals such as lead as well as lesser amounts of materials such as barium , cadmium and chromium . WIN Television WIN Television is an Australian television network owned and operated by WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong , New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single television station covering the Wollongong region. The WIN Network has since grown to cover much of regional Australia. The network's name, WIN , originates from its first station, Wollongong's WIN-4 . WIN has
1974-400: A standard-definition (SDTV) digital signal instead of an HDTV signal, because current convention allows the bandwidth of a DTV channel (or " multiplex ") to be subdivided into multiple digital subchannels , (similar to what most FM radio stations offer with HD Radio ), providing multiple feeds of entirely different television programming on the same channel. This ability to provide either
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#17330924891722068-549: A television presence in Western Australia, 10 affiliated with WDT in the region from 1 July 2021, changing channel numbers for the main 10 channel to channel 5, 10 Bold Drama to channel 50 and 10 Peach Comedy to channel 55. Its sister joint-venture in Mildura , MDV , also owned by Seven and WIN, closed down on 1 July 2024 due to continued financial losses. West Digital Television was also due to close down on 1 July 2024, but
2162-502: A terrestrial transmitter in range of their antenna. Other delivery methods include digital cable and digital satellite . In some countries where transmissions of TV signals are normally achieved by microwaves , digital multichannel multipoint distribution service is used. Other standards, such as digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) and digital video broadcasting - handheld (DVB-H), have been devised to allow handheld devices such as mobile phones to receive TV signals. Another way
2256-503: Is Internet Protocol television (IPTV), which is the delivery of TV over a computer network. Finally, an alternative way is to receive digital TV signals via the open Internet ( Internet television ), whether from a central streaming service or a P2P (peer-to-peer) system. Some signals are protected by encryption and backed up with the force of law under the WIPO Copyright Treaty and national legislation implementing it, such as
2350-440: Is a crucial regulatory tool for controlling the placement and power levels of stations. Digital TV is more tolerant of interference than analog TV. People can interact with a DTV system in various ways. One can, for example, browse the electronic program guide . Modern DTV systems sometimes use a return path providing feedback from the end user to the broadcaster. This is possible over cable TV or through an Internet connection but
2444-837: Is a table showing the logical channel numbers (LCN) for the full suite of digital services. West Digital Television operates four television stations in regional and remote areas of Western Australia – SDW in the South West, VDW in the Goldfields, GDW in the Mid West and WDW for the remaining areas of the state. The stations are based on GWN7's separate licence areas and all broadcast free-to-air digital television channels 10, 10 Bold Drama and 10 Peach Comedy. Terrestrial transmissions are available in many regional cities and towns, including Albany, Broome , Bunbury, Carnarvon , Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Karratha , Merredin , as well as others. The network
2538-572: Is also broadcasts the same channels free-to-view on the Viewer Access Satellite Television service. The satellite service can be accessed by eligible viewers in the Western Australia TV3 licence area, which includes the entire state of WA, Christmas Island and Cocos/Keeling Islands. Digital television Digital television ( DTV ) is the transmission of television signals using digital encoding, in contrast to
2632-514: Is an affiliate of Network 10 in Griffith, Northern New South Wales , and eastern South Australia . WIN Television has always produced regional programming, including the flagship local news service WIN News , that supplements programmes sourced from affiliates. Since its inception, the network has produced and broadcast notable programmes, including Sportsview and Sportsworld , a review of international, national, and local sporting events. From
2726-677: Is currently unavailable." On the evening of 2 July 2016 at around 7:30 p.m. WST , WDT began to carry Nine programming, joining its federal election coverage already in progress. On 12 March 2021, Nine announced that it would return to WIN Television as its regional affiliate in most markets including Western Australia, beginning 1 July 2021, in a deal that lasts at least seven years. This will include WIN paying half of its regional advertising revenue to Nine Entertainment Co., and providing advertising time for Nine's properties on WIN's radio and television outlets. WIN will also provide advertising sales services for Nine's O&Os NBN and NTD (with
2820-498: Is not possible with a standard antenna alone. Some of these systems support video on demand using a communication channel localized to a neighborhood rather than a city (terrestrial) or an even larger area (satellite). 1seg (1-segment) is a special form of ISDB . Each channel is further divided into 13 segments. Twelve are allocated for HDTV and the other for narrow-band receivers such as mobile televisions and cell phones . DTV has several advantages over analog television ,
2914-613: Is not readily compatible with a progressive format. DirecTV in the US launched the first commercial digital satellite platform in May 1994, using the Digital Satellite System (DSS) standard. Digital cable broadcasts were tested and launched in the US in 1996 by TCI and Time Warner . The first digital terrestrial platform was launched in November 1998 as ONdigital in the UK, using
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3008-504: Is sometimes referred to as mosquito noise . Because of the way the human visual system works, defects in an image that are localized to particular features of the image or that come and go are more perceptible than defects that are uniform and constant. However, the DTV system is designed to take advantage of other limitations of the human visual system to help mask these flaws, e.g., by allowing more compression artifacts during fast motion where
3102-491: Is the format used in computers, scans lines in sequences, from top to bottom. The computer industry argued that progressive scanning is superior because it does not flicker in the manner of interlaced scanning. It also argued that progressive scanning enables easier connections with the Internet and is more cheaply converted to interlaced formats than vice versa. The film industry also supported progressive scanning because it offers
3196-474: Is the right time for us to return to WIN". In June 2021, 10 announced that it would return to Southern Cross Austereo as its regional affiliate in the markets of the ACT & Southern NSW , regional Victoria and regional Queensland , beginning on 1 July 2021 in a deal that would originally last at least two years. This has ended WIN's five-year agreement with Network 10. Since Southern Cross Austereo does not have
3290-582: Is used in the Netflix VMAF video quality monitoring system. Quantising effects can create contours—rather than smooth gradations—on areas with small graduations in amplitude. Typically, a very flat scene, such as a cloudless sky, will exhibit visible steps across its expanse, often appearing as concentric circles or ellipses. This is known as color banding . Similar effects can be seen in very dark scenes, where true black backgrounds are overlaid by dark gray areas. These transitions may be smooth, or may show
3384-589: The Albanese government 's communications department approved $ 32.9 million in an increase in funding the costs for the station's satellite contract. This allowed WDT to continue broadcasting. The network rebroadcasts a direct feed of NEW-10 Perth , including programming and events produced in Perth. The network previously rebroadcast a direct feed of STW-9 Perth from 2016 to 2021. West Digital Television does not produce any local programming. West Digital Television simulcasts
3478-613: The Broadcasting Services Act , the network was able to introduce, in partnership with other stations, additional digital-only Network Ten affiliates. These included Tasmania's TDT , launched in late 2003 in partnership with Southern Cross Broadcasting , and Mildura's MDV in January 2006, with Prime Television . On 30 May 2007, WIN purchased NWS from Southern Cross Broadcasting for A$ 105 million. Similarly, STW Perth , owned by Sunraysia Television and affiliated with
3572-780: The DVB-T standard. Digital television supports many different picture formats defined by the broadcast television systems which are a combination of size and aspect ratio (width to height ratio). With digital terrestrial television (DTT) broadcasting, the range of formats can be broadly divided into two categories: high-definition television (HDTV) for the transmission of high-definition video and standard-definition television (SDTV). These terms by themselves are not very precise and many subtle intermediate cases exist. One of several different HDTV formats that can be transmitted over DTV is: 1280 × 720 pixels in progressive scan mode (abbreviated 720p ) or 1920 × 1080 pixels in interlaced video mode ( 1080i ). Each of these uses
3666-668: The Nine Network enabled it to clinch the Nine Network affiliation away from QTV , which was then forced to affiliate with third-placed Network Ten with just days to go. ENT Limited , a Launceston -based company that owned a number of television and radio stations in regional Victoria and Tasmania , was taken over by WIN in 1994. Television Victoria and TasTV were, as a result, rebranded as WIN Television. The network further expanded to Griffith in 1998, when WIN purchased MTN-9 Griffith and its supplementary station AMN-31 from its local owners. As MTN had been affiliated with WIN since
3760-478: The Nine Network , was purchased on 8 June 2007 for A$ 163.1 million. Despite the station's ownership of Nine Perth, the regional WIN WA service continued to broadcast Ten News Perth , produced for and shown on rival Perth station Ten Perth , until 27 August 2007, when Ten West came into service. A conflict between WIN and its long-time metropolitan partner, the Nine Network, arose in mid-2007, with PBL Media , Nine's parent company, requesting 40 percent of
3854-511: The Nine Network . On 1 July 2021, it returned to Network 10, broadcasting a direct feed of NEW-10 Perth . The network is similar to other joint ventures already available in Tasmania , Mildura , Darwin and Central and Eastern Australia . As GWN7 consists of three different stations licensed in Albany / Bunbury , Kalgoorlie and Geraldton , and a fourth licensed to the rest of the state as part of
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3948-586: The Viewer Access Satellite Television service. WIN News bulletins are carried on the VAST service to allow viewers in remote areas of Central and Eastern Australia, as well as terrestrial reception blackspots, to obtain news local to their area. Subscription cable is also provided by TransACT in the Australian Capital Territory and Neighbourhood Cable in Ballarat and Mildura . WIN broadcasts to
4042-683: The ACT, and regional areas in Victoria and Queensland switch to Nine affiliation at midnight on 1 July 2016. With that announcement, WIN was effectively stripped of its 27-year partnership with Nine. In response, WIN entered affiliation talks with Network Ten , in which Gordon held a significant stake, reaching a final agreement on 23 May 2016. From 1 July 2016, WIN carried Ten programming into its regional Queensland, Southern NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia markets. Supplementary station deals were left until late due to disagreement over
4136-710: The Broadcasting Services Act, allowing the network to launch a WIN Ten service using the MGS call sign in Mount Gambier and LRS in the Riverland. This enabled the main SES/RTS station to be a sole Nine Network affiliate, which lasted until 2007, when a supply agreement was made with Seven. As well as the flagship weeknightly WIN News bulletin, WIN has been prolific in broadcasting relevant programmes for its audience. In
4230-467: The FCC took several important actions. First, the Commission declared that the new TV standard must be more than an enhanced analog signal , but be able to provide a genuine HDTV signal with at least twice the resolution of existing television images. Then, to ensure that viewers who did not wish to buy a new digital television set could continue to receive conventional television broadcasts, it dictated that
4324-454: The FCC's final standard. This outcome resulted from a dispute between the consumer electronics industry (joined by some broadcasters) and the computer industry (joined by the film industry and some public interest groups) over which of the two scanning processes— interlaced or progressive —is superior. Interlaced scanning, which is used in televisions worldwide, scans even-numbered lines first, then odd-numbered ones. Progressive scanning, which
4418-488: The HD digital channel GEM on channel 80 in Southern NSW, Regional Victoria, Tasmania, and Regional Queensland. On 1 May 2012, WIN began transmission of an SD digital infomercial channel, Gold , on channel 84. The second infomercial channel, Gold2 , began on 13 July 2013 as a five-hour timeshift of Gold. Following Nine's launch of 9HD and 9Life on 26 November 2015 and WIN's promise of following suit, WIN began broadcasting
4512-582: The Perth edition of 10 News First from NEW-10 produced from both TEN-10 in Sydney and NEW-10 in Perth , alongside the 5pm weekend news from TEN-10 in Sydney . It previously simulcast the Perth edition of Nine News from STW-9, alongside the 5pm weekend news from TCN-9 in Sydney and 6pm weekend news from STW-9 in Perth. The network's channels are available statewide in digital terrestrial and digital satellite format. Below
4606-634: The Remote Commercial Television Licence scheme, West Digital Television's network is made up of four separate stations. Each of the four stations trade as West Digital Television Pty Ltd. On 18 June 2009, the Australian Communications & Media Authority allocated new "Section 38B" television broadcasting licences to a joint venture company owned by Prime Media and WIN Television. The company, named West Digital Television, launched Ten West on Thursday 10 June 2010 as part of
4700-639: The UK use a horizontal resolution of 544 or 704 pixels per line). Each commercial broadcasting terrestrial television DTV channel in North America is allocated enough bandwidth to broadcast up to 19 megabits per second. However, the broadcaster does not need to use this entire bandwidth for just one broadcast channel. Instead, the broadcast can use Program and System Information Protocol and subdivide across several video subchannels (a.k.a. feeds) of varying quality and compression rates, including non-video datacasting services. A broadcaster may opt to use
4794-572: The US Digital Millennium Copyright Act . Access to encrypted channels can be controlled by a removable card, for example via the Common Interface or CableCard . Digital television signals must not interfere with each other and they must also coexist with analog television until it is phased out. The following table gives allowable signal-to-noise and signal-to-interference ratios for various interference scenarios. This table
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#17330924891724888-624: The WIN Network's stations, it relays sports coverage broadcast from Nine's Wide World of Sports . On WIN's Northern New South Wales 10 station and other 10 stations in Griffith, Mildura, Regional WA, and Eastern SA owned by WIN and affiliated with 10, it relays sports coverage provided by 10 Sport . The Seven stations in Griffith, Mount Gambier, and the Riverland carry Seven Sport sports coverage. WIN Television's transmissions are available from both free-to-air terrestrial transmitters in major regional centres and free-to-view satellite transmissions across regional and remote Western Australia on
4982-543: The case on 28 April 2016, ruling that the definition of "broadcasting" in WIN's affiliation agreement with the Nine Network did not cover internet streaming "and that Nine is under no express or implied obligation not to do it". Shortly after WIN's legal defeat, Nine announced a new $ 500 million, five-year programme supply agreement with Southern Cross Austereo , the Ten affiliate. This saw Southern Cross Austereo's stations in Southern NSW,
5076-698: The country, incumbent GWN has remained the market's most-watched station. The second ratings survey of 2006 placed WIN Television with a 34.7% commercial audience share in prime-time, compared to the Golden West Network with 65.3%. Also in 1999, WIN purchased two stations in South Australia: SES-8 in Mount Gambier and RTS-5a in the Riverland region. They became known as WIN SA . In 2002, supplementary licences were granted under Section 38A of
5170-470: The digital signals. In the United States, a government-sponsored coupon was available to offset the cost of an external converter box. The digital television transition began around the late 1990s and has been completed on a country-by-country basis in most parts of the world. Prior to the conversion to digital TV, analog television broadcast audio for TV channels on a separate FM carrier signal from
5264-458: The earlier analog television technology which used analog signals . At the time of its development it was considered an innovative advancement and represented the first significant evolution in television technology since color television in the 1950s. Modern digital television is transmitted in high-definition television (HDTV) with greater resolution than analog TV. It typically uses a widescreen aspect ratio (commonly 16:9 ) in contrast to
5358-535: The early 1990s, the station was easily integrated into the network. WIN became regional Western Australia's second commercial television network on 26 March 1999 after winning the rights tender in 1997. Prior to the launch of the new station, GWN held a commercial monopoly on the market. GWN became an affiliate of the Seven Network , while WIN took a combination of Nine Network and Network Ten programming. Despite Nine's traditional ratings dominance throughout most of
5452-514: The early 1990s. In the mid-1980s, as Japanese consumer electronics firms forged ahead with the development of HDTV technology, and as the MUSE analog format was proposed by Japan's public broadcaster NHK as a worldwide standard. Japanese advancements were seen as pacesetters that threatened to eclipse US electronics companies. Until June 1990, the Japanese MUSE standard—based on an analog system—was
5546-482: The eye cannot track and resolve them as easily and, conversely, minimizing artifacts in still backgrounds that, because time allows, may be closely examined in a scene. Broadcast, cable, satellite and Internet DTV operators control the picture quality of television signal encoders using sophisticated, neuroscience-based algorithms, such as the structural similarity index measure (SSIM) video quality measurement tool. Another tool called visual information fidelity (VIF),
5640-464: The first week of transmissions, the children's television series The Channel 4 Club was produced, with the children's television programme Stopwatch beginning in 1979. The English-language educational programme You Say the Word began in 1971, catering to non-English-speaking immigrants. The long-running entertainment programme Variety Italian Style premiered in 1974, with Malcom Elliott initially hosting
5734-556: The flagship nightly bulletin, WIN Television has in the past produced current affairs programming, including the community affairs programme Roving Eye , and Sunday Review , a weekly review of international, national, and local stories. WIN also broadcast WIN's All Australian News at 7 a.m. weekdays and weeknights at late nights, which featured highlights from news bulletins from its regional stations that ceased in June 2021 due to Nine's new affiliation agreement with WIN. On most of
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#17330924891725828-435: The former succeeding a similar agreement it had with Southern Cross Austereo ). Nine CEO Hugh Marks explained that "while our relationship with Southern Cross has been strong over the last five years, the opportunities presented by the WIN Network to both extend the reach of Nine's premium content into more regional markets under one agreement, and to work co-operatively with them on a national and local news operation, mean this
5922-522: The front-runner among the more than 23 different technical concepts under consideration. Between 1988 and 1991, several European organizations were working on DCT -based digital video coding standards for both SDTV and HDTV. The EU 256 project by the CMTT and ETSI , along with research by Italian broadcaster RAI , developed a DCT video codec that broadcast SDTV at 34 Mbit/s and near-studio-quality HDTV at about 70–140 Mbit/s . RAI demonstrated this with
6016-425: The image and sound, although the program material may still be watchable. With digital television, because of the cliff effect , reception of the digital signal must be very nearly complete; otherwise, neither audio nor video will be usable. Analog TV began with monophonic sound and later developed multichannel television sound with two independent audio signal channels. DTV allows up to 5 audio signal channels plus
6110-649: The initial introduction of digital commercial television in Kalgoorlie , Karratha , Mawson Trig and Mingenew . West Digital Television launched on the Viewer Access Satellite Television platform in April 2011. Multi-channels One and Eleven were launched to Regional WA viewers on 28 July 2011, the same day digital commercial television commenced in Bunbury. On 1 July 2016, WIN's Nine Network -affiliated stations switched to Network Ten, displacing WDT's affiliation and requiring
6204-581: The last five years, the opportunities presented by the WIN Network to both extend the reach of Nine's premium content into more regional markets under one agreement and to work cooperatively with them on a national and local news operation mean this is the right time for us to return to WIN". Also for the first time, WIN now broadcasts Nine content under Nine branding. WIN's multi-channels have again been rearranged, with 9Gem on channel 81, 9Go! on channel 82, and 9Life on channel 83, while TVSN and Gold would continue to broadcast on channels 84 and 85, but despite
6298-583: The launch of Sky News on WIN . On 31 October 2018, at 6:30 p.m., during The Project , WIN updated its logo, launching at the same time as the launch of Network 10's new logo. WIN also rebranded its versions of 10's multi-channels, One and Eleven, into WIN Boss (later changed to WIN Bold in December) and WIN Peach . On 29 March 2021, the WIN channel in the Illawarra region was converted to MPEG-4 HD as an experiment for other WIN areas. On 14 May 2021, it
6392-575: The launch of the HD multi-channel GEM (now 9Gem). On 10 February 2016, WIN announced that it would launch its own HD simulcast in the coming months in response to Nine Network relaunching 9HD as its second high-definition channel. WIN HD re-launched on 1 March 2016. Four WIN regions were excluded from the 1 March launch date, although in four regions the launch was delayed: Griffith , Mildura , Eastern South Australia (2 March due to technical issues), and Regional Western Australia (10 March). On 1 July 2016, with WIN's new programme supply agreement,
6486-488: The most significant being that digital channels take up less bandwidth and the bandwidth allocations are flexible depending on the level of compression and resolution of the transmitted image. This means that digital broadcasters can provide more digital channels in the same space, provide high-definition television service, or provide other non-television services such as multimedia or interactivity. DTV also permits special services such as multiplexing (more than one program on
6580-418: The narrower format ( 4:3 ) of analog TV. It makes more economical use of scarce radio spectrum space; it can transmit up to seven channels in the same bandwidth as a single analog channel, and provides many new features that analog television cannot. A transition from analog to digital broadcasting began around 2000. Different digital television broadcasting standards have been adopted in different parts of
6674-416: The network independently. On 16 August 2007, WIN Television dropped key Nine Network programmes from its daytime television schedule, including Mornings with Kerri-Anne and National Nine News: Morning Edition . WIN also secured a new programme supply agreement for its regional South Australian station with Nine's rival Seven Network . Announced on 4 September 2007, the new programme schedule included
6768-517: The network with two additional competitors, The Prime Network and Capital Television . In 1990, WIN purchased Queensland station Star TV, with stations in Rockhampton ( RTQ ) and the Darling Downs (DDQ and SDQ), just weeks before aggregation was to occur in regional Queensland. The station had already been set to become a Network 10 affiliate under its previous owners; however, WIN's links with
6862-499: The network's advertising revenue in return for programme supply. WIN's owner, WIN Corporation , rejected this offer, expecting to pay only 29% (a 3% decrease from the previous contract and in line with many of the network's competitors, such as Prime Television and Southern Cross Ten ). The network's owner, Bruce Gordon, subsequently threatened to sever the network's affiliation after negotiations stagnated, stating that his previous position at Paramount Pictures meant he could programme
6956-408: The new ATV standard must be capable of being simulcast on different channels. The new ATV standard also allowed the new DTV signal to be based on entirely new design principles. Although incompatible with the existing NTSC standard, the new DTV standard would be able to incorporate many improvements. A universal standard for scanning formats, aspect ratios, or lines of resolution was not produced by
7050-462: The news division's viability. By 2016, only twelve bulletins were being produced and presented. After Nine launched its new online catch-up video on demand and live streaming service 9Now on 27 January 2016, WIN filed a lawsuit against Nine, claiming that live streaming into regional areas breached their exclusive affiliation agreement. Justice Hammerschlag of the NSW Supreme Court dismissed
7144-616: The past, it produced current affairs programming, including the community affairs programme Roving Eye , and Sunday Review , a weekly review of international, national, and local stories. It produced a mid-week rugby league wrap panel show in the mid-1990s, while in 1995, WIN Television Queensland produced its own rugby league coverage by televising games featuring the fledgeling North Queensland Cowboys in their maiden ARL Winfield Cup competition season. WIN Television began to introduce digital television soon after it became available to metropolitan areas in January 2001. Under Section 38A of
7238-418: The problem of large numbers of analog receivers being discarded. One superintendent of public works was quoted in 2009 saying; "some of the studies I’ve read in the trade magazines say up to a quarter of American households could be throwing a TV out in the next two years following the regulation change." In Michigan in 2009, one recycler estimated that as many as one household in four would dispose of or recycle
7332-747: The purchase of stations in Victoria , Queensland , and New South Wales . In 1984, WIN became the first regional television station to transmit stereophonic sound. Close links between WIN Television and the Nine Network ensured the Nine Network affiliation for southern New South Wales when aggregation occurred in March 1989. The changes meant that WIN expanded into the rest of southern New South Wales, launching new stations in Canberra , Orange , Bathurst , Dubbo , and Wagga Wagga , with new buildings and studios built in Orange, Wagga, and Canberra. Aggregation also provided
7426-801: The rate that loss-making stations should make to Nine Network . With just days left, deals were secured for South Australia, Griffith, and Tasmania. However, no deal was secured for the Western Australia joint venture West Digital Television before 1 July, but a deal was later finalised on 2 July 2016, with the relay of Nine content commencing that night. The channel changes reshuffled WIN's LCN listing, with One on LCNs 81 and 86, Eleven on LCN 82, TVSN on LCN 84, and Gold on LCN 85. WIN and WIN HD remained on LCNs 8 and 80. WIN also relocated its SD simulcast from LCN 81 to LCN 88. Negotiations in January 2017 for WIN to acquire Northern New South Wales station NRN in exchange for WIN's Wollongong radio station i98FM with Southern Cross Austereo failed, although
7520-422: The receiving antenna to the transmitter is not available, because usually higher frequency signals can't pass through obstacles as easily. Television sets with only analog tuners cannot decode digital transmissions. When analog broadcasting over the air ceases, users of sets with analog-only tuners may use other sources of programming (e.g., cable, recorded media) or may purchase set-top converter boxes to tune in
7614-445: The receiving equipment starts picking up interference that overpowers the desired signal or if the signal is too weak to decode. Some equipment will show a garbled picture with significant damage, while other devices may go directly from perfectly decodable video to no video at all or lock up. This phenomenon is known as the digital cliff effect. Block errors may occur when transmission is done with compressed images. A block error in
7708-647: The return, the "nine dots" were not reinstated on the network logo. WIN still broadcasts Network Ten content on its northern New South Wales station. On 18 March 2022, WIN Television celebrated 60 years of broadcasting across Wollongong and the Illawarra. On 16 June 2022, WIN Television converted 9Gem and 9Go! to MPEG-4 SD in Tasmania via WIN's Tasmanian station TVT . On 22 March 2023, WIN Television announced that they would be converting all of their remaining MPEG-2 channels to MPEG-4 later that same year. On 22 May 2023, 9Gem
7802-403: The same channel), electronic program guides and additional languages (spoken or subtitled). The sale of non-television services may provide an additional revenue source to broadcasters. Digital and analog signals react to interference differently. For example, common problems with analog television include ghosting of images, noise from weak signals and other problems that degrade the quality of
7896-412: The short-lived Tonight Show in 1981 before being replaced by John Tingle a year later. To commemorate WIN Television's 21st year of broadcasting, a one-and-a-half-hour retrospective montage special was produced in 1983. WIN Television also co-produced the telemovie Last Chance in 1986 with a Canadian television production company. Spanning close to a decade, the children's television series Goodsports
7990-472: The station to negotiate a switch to Nine Network. WDT failed to reach an affiliation deal with Nine in time for the switchover, with the co-owners stating that Nine had been actively rejecting offers. At this time, the channel temporarily suspended transmission, with programming replaced by a loop of scenic footage with the scrolling message "Programming on this channel in Regional Western Australia
8084-533: The time. A digital TV broadcast service was proposed in 1986 by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication (MPT) in Japan, where there were plans to develop an "Integrated Network System" service. However, it was not possible to practically implement such a digital TV service until the adoption of motion-compensated DCT video compression formats such as MPEG made it possible in
8178-435: The transmission bit rate and make reception easier for more distant or mobile viewers. There are several different ways to receive digital television. One of the oldest means of receiving DTV (and TV in general) is from terrestrial transmitters using an antenna (known as an aerial in some countries). This delivery method is known as digital terrestrial television (DTT). With DTT, viewers are limited to channels that have
8272-451: The video signal. This FM audio signal could be heard using standard radios equipped with the appropriate tuning circuits. However, after the digital television transition , no portable radio manufacturer has yet developed an alternative method for portable radios to play just the audio signal of digital TV channels; DTV radio is not the same thing. The adoption of a broadcast standard incompatible with existing analog receivers has created
8366-409: The world; below are the more widely used standards: Digital television's roots are tied to the availability of inexpensive, high-performance computers . It was not until the 1990s that digital TV became a real possibility. Digital television was previously not practically feasible due to the impractically high bandwidth requirements of uncompressed video , requiring around 200 Mbit/s for
8460-513: Was converted into an MPEG-4 HD channel in most WIN areas, except Western Australia, and Northern NSW. WIN Television carries the programming of all three commercial television stations in Australia. It is a sole affiliate of the Nine Network in all broadcast areas except for Northern NSW, but it is also an affiliate of the Seven Network in Griffith, New South Wales , and eastern South Australia and
8554-550: Was converted into an MPEG-4 SD channel in most WIN areas, except Tasmania, Western Australia, and Northern NSW. On 19 June 2023, 9Go! was converted into an MPEG-4 SD channel in most WIN areas, except Tasmania, Western Australia, and Northern NSW. In most WIN areas, except Northern NSW and Western Australia, 9Gem was upgraded to an MPEG-4 HD channel on 27 July 2023. In Northern NSW, WIN upgraded 10 Bold and 10 Peach from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 in November 2023, 10 Bold on 21 November 2023, and 10 Peach on 28 November 2023. On 6 December 2023, 9Go!
8648-626: Was incorporated on 4 October 1955 by a group of local businessmen. Five years later, it was awarded a licence by the Postmaster-General's Department over a number of other groups aligned to Sydney-based stations ATN-7 and TCN-9 to broadcast to the Illawarra and South Coast regions. The new station was to broadcast on the VHF -4 frequency, using the callsign WIN (which stood for Wollongong Illawarra New South Wales ), in line with other Australian call signs . During this period, WIN expanded through
8742-568: Was produced by WIN Television from 1991 to 2000. WIN Television's current Australian programming productions consist of television shows including Fishing Australia and Alive and Cooking . On 17 May 2007, WIN Television announced a new midday programme called Susie ; however, this was subsequently moved to a morning timeslot. It lasted until 2009. WIN Television also broadcasts a range of exclusive overseas and domestically sourced programming, including The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Alive and Cooking ; however, since 2021, WIN has broadcast
8836-890: Was reverted to the MPEG-2 format in SD after viewers complained that they could no longer get the WIN channel on LCN 8. On 12 March 2021, Nine announced it had secured a new programme supply agreement with its original partner, WIN Network, across regional Australia beginning 1 July 2021, in effect dumping Southern Cross Austereo, which was forced to return to relaying third-placed Ten content. The seven-year deal sees WIN pay around 50 percent of broadcast advertising revenue to Nine Entertainment Co., plus advertising time for Nine's properties on WIN's television and radio assets. WIN also integrated advertising sales services for Nine's O&O regional stations, NBN , and NTD . Nine CEO Hugh Marks explained that "while our relationship with Southern Cross has been strong over
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