Nine Network
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The Nine Network is an Australian television network, available in major markets across Australia. Nine's wide range of news, sport and entertainment programming has led to consistently strong viewing figures for many years.
Their slogan "Still the One" refers to their long lasting popularity, being the most popular television station since the introduction of television in Australia. In the last two decades, the Nine Network has been beaten in the annual television ratings only once (by the Seven Network in 2000). [1]
The network's headquarters is in Willoughby, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney. From here the network signal is broadcast to other network stations and regional affiliates. All nationally-broadcast news programs emanate from studios there.
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 James Packer sold 50% of Channel Nine to CVC Asia-Pacific, for 4.6 billion dollars AUD.
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[edit] Assets
Nine owns many stations in Australia and they also own shares in stations outside of Australia:
- Nine formerly owned a 50% interest in Prime Television in New Zealand, but sold this in 2006 to Sky Network Television
- Nine also formerly owned a stake in EMTV, Papua New Guinea's main television station.
- Publishing and Broadcasting Limited owns a controlling share of Crown Casino in Melbourne and the Burswood Entertainment Complex (including Burswood Casino) in Perth.
- Parent Company Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL) owns PBL Enterprises which also has interests in:
- Foxtel (25% stake)
- Acer Arena
- Sky News Australia (33% stake)
- NineMSN (50% stake)
- Seek (25% stake)
- Ticketek
- Premier Media Group (50% stake)
- Hoyts (50% stake)
- PBL also owns Australian Consolidated Press, a publishing company that publishes top selling magazines such as:
- Australian Women's Weekly
- Dolly
- Burke's Backyard
- Disney Adventures
- The Bulletin
- Ralph
- Wheels
- People
- For a full list of Australian Consolidated Press magazines see List of Australian Consolidated Press Magazines
[edit] On Air
[edit] Re-Branding
On January 30 2006, the Nine Network and its affiliate stations relaunched to co-incide with Nine's 50th year of broadcasting. [2]
The decision to relaunch was made by interim CEO Sam Chisholm and late PBL Deputy Chairman Kerry Packer early in 2005. Rumours of a new logo surfaced after a damaging newspaper advertisement featuring the "Nine dots" from the Seven Network went unresponded by Nine.
The new logo designed by Bruce Dunlop Associates lacks Nine's distinctive Nine dots, which had been an Australian television icon since 1963. The rebranding of Nine also sees National Nine News, A Current Affair, Today, Nightline and the Wide World of Sports receive fresh, new looks.
On 28 January 2006, television history website aus.tv.history displayed an image what it claimed to be the new Nine Network logo, which was, true to form, a number nine in a box without the dots. The nine is in the same font as the now previous "9" logo.
[edit] Entertainment
Channel Nine is Australia's highest rating television network. In 2005 Seven had a ratings resurgence on the back of US hits Lost and Desperate Housewives, scaring Channel Nine and even winning consecutive weeks before a strong return to form from Nine as the year progressed. In primetime like its broadcast rivals (public, commercial and pay), Channel Nine relies heavily on overseas programming (mostly from the American CBS network), including:
- Close to Home
- Cold Case
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- CSI: Miami
- CSI: New York
- ER
- Nip/Tuck
- Rome
- Super Nanny
- Survivor
- The Apprentice
- The Dan Ilic Report
- The Closer
- The Young and the Restless
- Without a Trace
For 2007, The Nine Network has broadcast rights for these programs [3]:
Channel Nine also broadcasts some Australian-made programming such as:
(Note: Australian content is predominately comprised of non-scripted programs.)
- 20 to 1 (GTV-9)
- A Current Affair (TCN-9)
- Australia's Funniest Home Video Show (TCN-9)
- Big Questions
- Backyard Blitz (TCN-9)
- Bert's Family Feud (GTV-9)
- Celebrity Overhaul (TCN-9)
- Overhaul (TCN-9)
- Comedy Inc. The Late Shift (parts)
- Getaway (TCN-9)
- McLeod's Daughters (Southern Cross)
- Missing Persons Unit
- Mornings with Kerri-Anne (TCN-9)
- Madga's Funny Bits
- Quizmania (GTV-9)
- Suspicious Minds
- Starstruck (GTV-9)
- Temptation (GTV-9)
- The Footy Show (GTV-9/TCN-9)
- Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice (TCN-9)
- What's Good For You?(TCN-9)
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?(GTV-9)
For full list of Nine's television programs see:
[edit] Sport
[edit] News
The Nine Network's news service is called National Nine News and is generally conservative[citation needed] in its reporting. National Nine News has historically been Australia's highest-rating, though not necessarily the most-comprehensive, news service. National Nine News produces the following bulletins/programs:
- Today
- National Nine News: Morning Edition
- National Nine News: Afternoon Edition
- National Nine News
- Nightline
National Nine News also assist in production of:
[edit] Callsigns
Callsigns for Nine Network stations in the capital cities:
[edit] Affiliates
Nine Network programming is also carried by the following affiliate networks:
[edit] Southern Cross
[edit] Sunraysia Television
[edit] WIN Television
- WIN - Griffith
- WIN - Southern New South Wales
- WIN - Victoria
- WIN - Queensland
- WIN - Tasmania
- WIN - Mount Gambier & Riverland
- WIN - Western Australia (non-exclusive)
[edit] NBN Television
- NBN - Northern New South Wales
[edit] Imparja
- Imparja - Satellite, Alice Springs & Mount Isa (Non-Exclusive) (including remote South Australia, Northern Territory)
[edit] Criticism
Due to the relatively small TV audience market in Australia, the three commercial stations Seven, Nine and Ten have often been criticised for their programming practices. Primetime programs are often rescheduled without warning so as to avoid competing with the popular programs on other channels. In such cases, stations will usually air repeats or lower rated programs which have little likelihood of ratings success. Also, at times when stations have successes such as CSI, programs may be used many times in a week.
Programs that have come under the microscope include Farscape (which Nine originally co-created) and other sci-fi programming, along with recent examples such as Rome. In October 2006, the sixth series of the HBO drama The Sopranos was moved from a 10.40pm Wednesday time slot to 12.05am on a Tuesday morning on short notice. In response to an angry backlash from fans of the series, (GTV) Nine's program manager Len Downs told newspapers that falling ratings were the main reason for the move.
[edit] Station IDs
National Television Network
- 1956-68: Model 9. (GTV-9)
- 1969-70: Golden 9. (GTV-9)
- 1970-72: True Grit. (GTV-9)
- Summer 1970/71: Have a Happy Summer. (GTV-9)
- 1972: Get the Channel 9 Feeling.
- 1973: This is the Place to Be. (borrowed from ABC)
- Autumn 1974: Winter Warm-Up.
- Winter 1974: Come Home to Us this Winter.
- 1975: Living Colour.
- 1975: That's Entertainment '75.
- 1975: The Best in Colour. (STW-9)
- Summer 1975/76: The Good Times.
- 1976: The Nine Squares.
National Nine Network
- 1977: Let Us Be the One. (borrowed from ABC)
- 1978: Still the One. (borrowed from ABC)
- 1979: We're the One. (borrowed from ABC)
- 1980: Still the One.
- 1980: Still the One (Yellow).
- 1980: Your Friends are on Nine.
- 1980: We Do It For You. (TCN-9) (based on "Dancing Queen" by ABBA)
- 1981: Still the One (Blue 1).
- 1981: Montage.
- Sept. 16, 1981: 25 Years of Television.
- 1982: Still the One (Blue 2).
- 1982: Personality.
- 1983: Come on Along. (borrowed from ABC)
- 1984-85: Still the One.
- 1986-87: Fly Around.
- 1986: Best in Melbourne. (GTV-9)
- 1987: Together. (borrowed from ABC's 1986 slogan)
- 1988-91: Skyline.
- 1988: Still the One.
- 1989: Shout!
- 1990: Shout!
- 1991: Let the Good Times Roll.
- 1992-94: Tower.
- 1992: That's the Way.
- 1993: Still the One.
Channel Nine
- 1994: Still the One.
- 1995-96: Generic.
- 1995: I Am...
- 1995: Still the One.
- 1996: This is Australia (based on GANGgajang's song "Sounds of Then")
- Sept. 1996: 40 Years of Television.
- 1997-98: Fly Through.
- 1997: Still the One.
- 1998: Still the One.
- 1999-2000: New Millennium Television.
- 1999: Still the One.
- 2000-01: Still The One.
- 2001-02: Ninemsn.
- 2001: Odyssey.
- 2002-03: Fly Around.
- 2002: Weapon of Choice (by Fatboy Slim).
- 2003: Still the One.
- 2004-Jan. 30, 2006: Still the One.
- 2004: Still the One.
- Sept. 25, 2005: 50 Years of Television.
- Jan. 30, 2006-June 2006: This is Channel Nine.
- 2006: Still the One.
- June 2006-?: Channel Nine.
- Aug-Sept. 2006: 50 Years of Nine.
[edit] Slogans
- "Do you see what 9 sees?"
- "Still the One" (not used in Perth due to the fact they have not been the one for the last few years)
[edit] Logos
The Nine Network has used many logos throughout its history.
Used from 1963-1976, then from 1988-2006 |
Used from 1977-1987 |
Used from 2006 onwards |
[edit] See also
[edit] Further reading
- Stone, Gerald (2000). Compulsive Viewing: the inside story of Packer's Nine Network. Ringwood, Victoria: Viking. ISBN 0-670-88690-4.
[edit] External links
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