WIN-4
| WIN Television | |
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| Launched | 18 March 1962 |
| Owned by | WIN Corporation |
| Picture format |
576i (SDTV) 16:9 1080i (HDTV) 16:9 |
| Slogan | Entertaining Australia |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Regional QLD, Southern NSW & ACT, Griffith, Regional VIC, Mildura, Tasmania, Eastern SA, Regional WA |
| Affiliates |
Network Ten Nine Network (Griffith and Eastern SA) Seven Network (Griffith and Eastern SA) |
| Headquarters |
Wollongong, New South Wales (head office) Ingleburn, Sydney (national play-out centre) |
| Formerly called | WIN-4 (1962-1980) |
| Sister channel(s) |
WIN HD Gold |
| Website | wintv.com.au |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| Freeview WIN owned (virtual) | 8/88 |
| Freeview WIN HD (virtual) | 80 |
| Optus D1 | Transponder 3 |
| Intelsat 2 | Transponder 2 |
| HiTRON (Papua New Guinea) | 6 |
| Cable | |
| TransTV Digital | 9 |
| NC Digital | 9 |
WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single Wollongong-only station, and has since expanded to 24 owned-and-operated stations with transmissions covering a larger geographical area of Australia than any other television network except for Australia Plus which broadcasts to 44 countries.
The network's name, WIN is a reference to its original Wollongong station WIN-4, itself an acronym of Wollongong Illawarra New South Wales. Through its news division, WIN News, WIN Television broadcasts a half-hour news service to twenty regional markets.
Television Wollongong Transmission Limited (TWT), 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 broadcast to the Illawarra and South Coast regions, over a number of other groups aligned to Sydney-based stations ATN-7 and TCN-9. The new station was to broadcast on the VHF-4 frequency, using the callsign WIN (which stood for Wollongong (and the) Illawarra Network or alternatively Wollongong Illawarra New South Wales, in line with other Australian callsigns). Soon after, a plot of land was purchased at Fort Drummond, approximately two kilometres south of the Wollongong central business district, for the station's television studios.
Prior to the opening night's transmissions, WIN-4 undertook a television conversion program, aimed at encouraging residents to acquire new tuning equipment and converting television sets in the area to receive the station's allocated frequency. A transmitter was to be erected on Knight's Hill, however test transmissions were delayed due to rain.
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