WIN Television

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WIN Television or WIN is an Australian regional television broadcaster. Its first station was in Wollongong, New South Wales, under the name of WIN-4 - the initials standing for Wollongong (and the)Illawarra Network (or, fitting in with the Australian callsign scheme Wollongong Illawarra New (South Wales)).

It was initialled owned by Rupert Murdoch, but was sold in the late 1970's allowing Murdoch to purchase a controlling interest in capital city stations TEN-10 Sydney and ATV-0 (now ATV-10) Melbourne

Table of contents

1 Expansion
2 List of acquisitions
3 List of new licenses

Expansion

WIN expanded to the rest of southern New South Wales when aggregation occurred in that area, in 1989. It took on a Nine Network affiliation, a bond that has become a very strong link between the two companies. WIN has used a verson of the Nine Network logo, with nine dots, on all Nine affiliate stations. The only non Nine-affiliate stations operated by WIN are in areas where they are a dual broadcaster.

The other two commercial broadcasters were Prime Television and Capital Television.

Since that date, WIN has expanded almost nationwide, mainly by purchasing and re-branding other networks. It is now the largest regional broadcaster, in terms of both area and population.

List of acquisitions

Star Television (1990)
- regional Queensland
ENT Ltd (September 1994)
- VIC TV, regional Victoria, including Mildura
- TasTV, all of Tasmania
MTN Griffith (1998)
- MTN-9 (Nine affiliate) Griffith, New South Wales
- MTN-31 (Seven affiliate) Griffith, New South Wales
RTS-5a (August 1999)
- Riverland area, South Australia
SES-8 (August 1999)
- Mt Gambier area, South Australia

List of new licenses

WIN Western Australia (March 1999)
- WIN gained the license to broadcast via satellite to regional Western Australia. They compete with Golden West Network.
WIN Ten South Australia (December 2003)
- WIN applied for (and won) a second license in the Riverland/Mt Gambier area of South Australia. WIN now owns both a Nine and Ten affiliate in this area.
Tasmanian Digital Television (December 2003)
- WIN and Southern Cross, applied for, and won, a joint license to broadcast a third commercial station in Tasmania. The license is for digital television broadcast only.

WIN now broadcasts in all regional areas except for remote Central Australia, Darwin, Spencer Gulf and Northern New South Wales.