The article is divided into the following sections:
ProgrammingWIN - like most other regional networks - tends to produce programmes for local consumption,
such as local news bulletins. However, WIN have produced programmes intended for screening across
the network and some programmes have been sold to, and screened on, the Nine Network. Programmes
of note include travel show
Destinations and children's sports/fitness show
Goodsports.
HistoryThe network began as
WIN4
in the NSW city of Wollongong on the 18th of March, 1962 at 5:15pm,
with Robert Lord as the general manager of the station.
WIN4 was sold in 1979 to the head of Paramount Pictures'
international distribution arm, Bruce Gordon, so that Rupert Murdoch (who bought WIN4 in 1963)
could gain control of metro stations TEN10 and ATV0 (now ATV10) - to this day, Gordon's company,
Oberon Broadcasters (which, in turn, owns the WIN Corporation) still owns the network.
When aggregation was proposed, WIN became the Nine Network affiliate in Southern
New South Wales and the ACT in 1988. As aggregation swept across regional Australia,
WIN purchased many regional stations, renaming them "WIN Television".
Stations purchased by WIN include Star Television (Queensland - 1990 -
see WIN Queensland ),
VIC TV (1994) and
TasTV
(1994),
MTN-9/AMN-31 Griffith NSW (1998),
SES8
Mount Gambier and
RTS5a Renmark/Loxton (South Australia) (1999), and
NWS9 Adelaide and
STW9 Perth (2007).
The station also gained a license to operate in
Western Australia in 1998,
and supplementary licenses in
South Australia in 2003,
and is a partner with Southern Cross Broadcasting in
Tasmanian Digital Television.
WIN and Prime Television are the joint licence holders of the digital channel
Ten Mildura (MDV-33) to began broadcasting in January 2006, providing Mildura with a full-scale Ten affiliate signal.
Related linksOfficial:
http://www.winnet.com.auCorporate:
http://www.wintv.com.au 
