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Australian media
Some brilliance from Australian media articles. These are largely stripped of formatting because I can't be bothered to trawl through and fix up the wikitext (not being bothered is very much on-brand for Wikipeedia; for example, see the care given to these articles).

Seven Network: In January 2011, the big red 7 logos were expanded to GWN7 and Prime7's rebranding respectively.[26] The news bulletins were renamed as GWN7 News and Prime7 News.[26] GWN and Prime relaunched on 16 January 2011 at 6:00 pm,[26] digital channels are branded as 7TWO and 7mate.

In October 2012 Seven began cost cutting shedding a number of behind the scenes technical positions and reducing their SNG transponder link capacity on Optus D1 from three (at 12.661,12.671&12.681 GHz) to two (at 12.644&12.653 GHz) which are used by ATN Sydney for Sunrise and national news location uplinks as well as for other local station location uplinks.

On 7 February 2016, during the ad-break of Molly, after months of speculation, Seven officially announced their new channel as 7flix on channel 76.[33] 7flix was launched at 6 am on 28 February 2016.[34]

In June 2020, Big Brother Australia made a return on the Seven Network with a rebooted program. Hosted by Sonia Kruger [39], the series was pre-recorded and not live as in previous series, with the new version of Big Brother described like a ‘Survivor in a warehouse’ with producers opting to film at a warehouse in Sydney. The exact location is North Head Sanctuary, also known as The Barracks.[40]. On the night Big Brother premiered, Seven also changed their on air theme.

This is an entire paragraph: In 2011, Seven put Packed to the Rafters on hiatus and put new Melbourne drama Winners and Losers in its place, the show won the highest ratings for the night.

Foreign programs

Most US programming that airs on Seven and its digital multichannels is sourced from Seven's deals with Disney-ABC International Television / Disney Media Distribution (long running; also shared with Disney+), 20th Century Studios (long running), NBCUniversal International Television (long running), StudioCanal / Sony Pictures Television International and Sony Pictures Animation, Warner Bros. Television Distribution / Warner Bros. Family Entertainment (theatrical films only), and Icon Films.

Seven is now share the Disney films and televisions with the streaming online of Disney+ because the studio needs to leave room for other Warner Bros films, NBCUniversal, Sony, Fox, and new Disney films while they moved Paramount films to Nine and also return couple Warner Bros films to Nine Network, but Seven and Nine are also share with Disney, Sony, NBCUniversal, and Warner Bros.

Share overseas programs

Share US programming that airs on Seven and Nine which its digital multichannels is sourced from Seven and Nine's deals with Warner Bros. Television Distribution / Warner Bros. Family Entertainment (theatrical films only), Disney-ABC International Television / Disney Media Distribution (Marvel and Lucasfilm films only), NBCUniversal International Television, 20th Century Studios (selected films only), StudioCanal / Sony Pictures Television International and Sony Pictures Animation.

Share US programming that airs on Seven and 10 which its digital multichannels is sourced from Seven and 10's deals with Disney-ABC International Television / Disney Media Distribution (Touchstone films only), StudioCanal / Sony Pictures Television International, and Warner Bros. Television Distribution / Warner Bros. Family Entertainment (theatrical films only).

Share US programming that airs on Seven and ABC and its digital multichannels are sourced from Seven and ABC's deals NBCUniversal International Television and StudioCanal / Sony Pictures Television International.

Former programs

The network formerly broadcast catalogue movie and television titles from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced in the 1990s prior to 2011, DreamWorks from 2007 to 2015, and movie titles of Paramount from 1990s to 2018. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, DreamWorks, and Paramount now belong to the Nine Network, Nine revived Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, DreamWorks, and Paramount broadcast rights. In 2018 it was reported that Seven had formed an agreement with 20th Century Fox to air selected Fox programming.[52]

Previously, the network had output deals with Sony Corporation and NBC Universal, however changed its deals with both in mid-2013. Seven renegotiated its NBCU deal to continue rights to air existing popular NBC co-produced programs including Downton Abbey and Mrs Brown's Boys, as well as NBC News content. Commiserate with the American network's own slump, Seven has not found huge success with an NBC primetime series since 2007. With Sony, Seven has signed a three-year minimum quota deal, where by Seven will agree to purchase a set number of Sony produced US primetime series and selected films each year.[53]

After trailing for many decades to Nine News (previously National Nine News) and 10 News First (previously Ten Eyewitness News, Ten News at Five, Ten Evening News and Ten News: First at Five) in most markets, Seven rebounded effective from February 2005 onwards, and claimed to be Australia's number one television news and current affairs service.[43]

On 5 July 2008, Channel Seven introduced a watermark on news and current affairs programmes.

Seven's most popular recurring sporting events include the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, Big Bash League, Women's Big Bash League, Australian Test Cricket, World Rally Championship, Australian Rally Championship, Australian Off Road Championship, AFL Premiership Season, the Australian Open Golf, the Australian Open Tennis until Seven lost the rights in 2018, Bledisloe Cup Rugby, Mount Buller World Aerials, the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, the Tri-Nations Rugby, and horse racing events including the Melbourne Cup Carnival until Seven lost the rights in 2018, and Queensland's annual Magic Millions race day.[55]

Seven had exclusive Australian free-to-air, pay television, online and mobile telephony broadcast rights to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The live telecast of the XXIX Olympiad was shared by both the Seven Network and SBS Television.

"Ten's famous 5-year run" 😂🤦‍♀️ The Seven Network is the new free-to-air home of cricket in Australia in conjunction with Foxtel. This ended Nine's famous 45-year run as the exclusive Cricket broadcaster and also this ended Ten's famous 5-year run as the exclusive Big Bash League broadcaster.

AFL Premiership Season and Cricket matches are not accessible through the 7plus live streaming service due to the digital broadcast rights being owned by Telstra Media and Kayo Sports respectively. Border Security International repeats play on the channel's live stream in the event's place until the match is over and then returns to normal programming.[citation needed]

There's an "identity history" section, consisting of an unencyclopedic, unsourced shitlist. This would have to be the "best" entry: 1986 – 1987: Say Hello! (ADS-7 / HSV-7 / TVW-7 only) (based on Frank Gari's "Hello News" variant; also used by TasTV (TVT-6 and TNT-9 as "Hello Tassie", 1986–1989 and (DDQ-10/SDQ-4) as "Hello Toowoomba" and "Hello Warwick", 1986–1989)

Nine Network: On 27 January 2014, the Nine Network have stopped using the Supertext logo and have switched to their own Closed Captioning logo.

Here's a totally NPOV section heading: 2015–2019: A new era in television

Definitely not lifted from The Australian Financial Review: In August 2019, In a huge week for local announcements, Disney confirmed its service will arrive in Australia in November, Apple ramped up its original-content budget to $US6 billion ($8.9 billion) ahead of launch later this year, Nine-owned Stan signed a deal with Paramount, Amazon commissioned its first Australian series and Seven West Media told investors it is keen to get back in the game after earlier misfires. The success of Netflix in disrupting the pay-TV world that Foxtel ruled down under has now spawned a plethora of on-demand entertainment options, with media companies and viewers scrambling to make the new era work for them. Stan is owned by Nine, publisher of The Australian Financial Review, and its Paramount TV deal, signed earlier in the week, included a number of shows that have been commissioned for Disney's Hulu and AT&T's HBO Max in the US. Nine Entertainment’s streaming service Stan looks like losing out in the battle for movie content dominance. The platform recently inked a deal with Paramount Pictures to give it extra content in the struggle for market share with Netflix. That deal would give Stan exclusive rights to some of Paramount’s best known-films, including Mission: Impossible, Transformers, Star Trek and Top Gun. However, the now completed merger between Paramount Pictures’ parent company Viacom and network giant CBS, which now owns Network Ten, has cast doubt on the value of the Stan-Paramount partnership.

Overseas programs

Current US programming that airs on Nine and its digital multichannels are sourced from Nine's deals Village Roadshow Entertainment (long running), Cartoon Network Studios and Warner Bros. Television Distribution / Warner Bros. Family Entertainment, StudioCanal / Sony Pictures Television International and Sony Pictures Animation (long running), NBCUniversal International Television and Illumination Entertainment / DreamWorks Television and DreamWorks Animation, MTV Networks and Nickelodeon International / ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks and CBS Television Distribution (Paramount TV) / Paramount Home Entertainment (Paramount films), 20th Century Studios (selected films only), Regency Enterprises, Metro Goldwyn Mayer International Television, Miramax Films, and Disney-ABC International Television / Disney Media Distribution (Marvel and Lucasfilm films only).

The network's flagship overseas programme is the popular sitcom The Big Bang Theory. Other American programs on Nine include Chicago Med and the daytime talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Sony Pictures daytime Soap Operas on 9Gem include Days of Our Lives and The Young and The Restless. Extra use to air on Nine up until its 26th season and the cancelled Lethal Weapon.

Since 2015 the network has cut ties with Warner Bros. Television, losing the networks rights to Arrow, Gotham, Mom and Two Broke Girls among many others.[40]

Share overseas programs

Share US programming that airs on Nine and Seven and its digital multichannels are sourced from Nine and Seven's deals Disney-ABC International Television / Disney Media Distribution (Marvel and Lucasfilm only), 20th Century Studios (selected films only), NBCUniversal International Television, Warner Bros. Television Distribution / Warner Bros. Family Entertainment (theatrical films only), and StudioCanal / Sony Pictures Television International and Sony Pictures Animation.

Share US programming that airs on Nine and 10 and its digital multichannels are sourced from Nine and 10's deals MTV and Nickelodeon International / ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks / CBS Television Distribution (Paramount TV), StudioCanal / Sony Pictures Television International, and Village Roadshow Entertainment / Warner Bros. Television Distribution and Warner Bros. Family Entertainment (theatrical films only).

Share US programming that airs on Nine and ABC and its digital multichannels are sourced from Nine and ABC's deals MTV and Nickelodeon International / ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks (Paramount TV), NBCUniversal Television Distribution / DreamWorks Animation, and StudioCanal / Sony Pictures Television International.

Since the merger of Viacom and CBS, Nine Network was currently has secured a new content partnership with ViacomCBS which can resume revived their rights for MTV and Nickelodeon International broadcast rights after Stan. and Netflix has announced a partnership with Paramount Pictures that will give the streaming platform exclusive rights to a collection of TV and film products because Network 10's CBS Corporation would re-merge with Viacom, creating one mega media company named ViacomCBS. While Nine and 10 are normally share the Nickelodeon deal, Nickelodeon televisions will split the seasons of the show (including Paw Patrol and SpongeBob SquarePants) which can aired in both channels of the same show (mainly 9Go! and 10 Peach) while Paramount films and DreamWorks films will moved from 10 to Nine.

In 2014, Nine News website moved from its ninemsn website to a brand-only website become 9news.com.au, which are still in use to this day.

Channel Nine broadcasts all sporting events under the Wide World of Sports brand. The flagship sports of the brand are cricket until Nine lost the rights in 2018, Australian Open Tennis, National Rugby League (NRL), and formerly Australian Football League (AFL), until Nine lost the rights in 2006, and Super League while it existed. NRL games are broadcast in prime time on Nine in New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory and Queensland on Friday nights, however prime time NRL is shown at same time on multichannel 9Gem in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania.

Nine's other popular recurring sporting events include the State of Origin series, Gillette Twenty20 until Nine lost the rights in 2018, Gillette Series Cricket until Nine lost the rights in 2018, and Test cricket until Nine lost the rights in 2018. and formerly the Australian Swimming Championships until Nine lost the rights in 2009.

In 2013, the Nine Network switched their captioning provider from Red Bee Media to Ai-Media.[43][44]

The Olympic news on Today and Nine News don't broadcast live streaming due to the IOC rights instead it replaces the message board until Olympic news finishes and returning to normal programming.

At least the first sentence is decent: The Nine Network logo, which consists of a numeral "9" beside nine dots arranged in a 3x3 grid, is one of the most recognisable logos in Australia.[45]

In 1997, the dots were changed to spheres. The spheres returned to dots as a new on-air identity package was created by Velvet mediendesign in 2001.[46]

This logo was redesigned by Velvet Mediendesign on 1 January 2001, with the introduction of digital TV in Australia and new graphics.[46]

On 1 September 2002, the dots were changed back to spheres from the 1997 logo as well as the numeral becoming 3D for their "7 colours for 7 days" presentation package.

On 30 January 2006, the network and its affiliates relaunched their logos to coincide with Nine's 50th anniversary.

A numeral nine was reworked with a few rounded corners eliminated in process. This logo would use a blue square featuring the numeral altered, which saw the removal of the nine dots again. The graphics package used during that time was designed by Bruce Dunlop Associates.[45]

Later on 15 January 2007 the blue square became solid, and in May they partially relaunched the nine dots, which are visible on every second surface of the box. This logo continued to be used in Perth and Adelaide stations until March 2010, when they reinstated the nine-dots logo.[47]

On 14 January 2008, Nine completely reinstated the nine dots logo, but with a different design. The slogan used with this logo was "we♥TV", which had also been used in December 2007 with the previous logo. This time, the dots are now a bit bigger, like the 1970s logo and the numeral 9 from the previous 2006 logo would continue.

This logo would first be used in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Darwin markets but the logo would not used in both Perth and Adelaide markets, until March 2010, due to being owned by WIN Corporation at the same time.

As a part of a major relaunch, the entire logo became 3D on the same day as part of a short-lived rebrand. The nine dots are represented by translucent 3D discs during that year. The music used throughout the network's ID's and promotions was "Smile"' by The Supernaturals, released in 1997. This logo would only be used in 4 metropolitan markets.

On 1 February 2009, the dots are once again 2D as part of a short-lived rebrand, which lasted until 26 September.

On 27 September, the dots are changed to spheres from the 1997 logo yet again when the network's original slogan "Welcome Home" was launched. It also began to re-use the iconic "Still The One" theme tune from 1992 in one of the ID's. The dots is smaller, like the previous 2001 logo and in March 2010, the dots were reinstated in both Perth and Adelaide markets.[45]

On 15 April 2012 during the premiere of The Voice, Nine changed its identity to apply the logo in different colours such as blue, red, green, purple, yellow and orange. It is also reminiscent of the 2002 ID package from the 2001 logo, and coincidentally the identity for the network has been launched a decade ago.[48]

As of 2016, the network no longer airs a default station ident, despite loyal viewer insistence. With the exception of special promotions.

However, In April 2020, the network launched a tongue-in-cheek station ident which depicted the 9 dots being spaced out to promote Social Distancing, a lawful enforcement by the Australian Government in response to COVID-19, concluding with the hashtag #SlowTheSpread

Network 10: International programs

Current US programming that airs on 10 and its digital multichannels is sourced from 10’s deals ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks (owner) / MTV and Nickelodeon International / CBS Television Distribution (Paramount TV; long running),[58] StudioCanal / Sony Pictures Television International, Village Roadshow Entertainment / Warner Bros. Television Distribution and Warner Bros. Family Entertainment (theatrical films only), Disney-ABC International Television / Disney Media Distribution (Touchstone films only), and Transmission Films.

When it was independent, Ten had a long-standing relationship with CBS Studios International for Australian rights to its content.

On 30 October 2017, the network ceased its output deal as a side effect of the network's bankruptcy and CBS acquisition. 20th Century Fox, losing the networks rights to The Simpsons (Ending after 27 years), Modern Family and Life in Pieces, among many others.[59][60]

Since in 2018, 10 revived their rights for Warner Bros. and Roadshow because the studio now allows new Broadcast rights, but they share with Nine.

On 3 February 2019, 10 revived their rights for Sony Pictures Television International because the studio now allows new Broadcast rights but they share with Nine and Seven.

Since 2020, 10 no longer revived their rights for Paramount films and DreamWorks films. Later that year, the rights of ViacomCBS programming (including Paramount TV) will be shared between the Nine Network and Network 10 (now a sibling of Comedy Central, MTV, and Nickelodeon, along with Channel 5 in the United Kingdom and Telefe in Argentina).

Share overseas programs

Share US programming that airs on 10 and Nine which its digital multichannels is sourced from 10 and Nine's deals MTV and Nickelodeon International / ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks / CBS Television Distribution (Paramount TV), StudioCanal / Sony Pictures Television International, and Village Roadshow Entertainment / Warner Bros. Television Distribution and Warner Bros. Family Entertainment (theatrical films only).

Share US programming that airs on 10 and Seven which its digital multichannels is sourced from 10 and Seven's deals Disney-ABC International Television / Disney Media Distribution (Touchstone films only), StudioCanal / Sony Pictures Television International, and Warner Bros. Television Distribution / Warner Bros. Family Entertainment (theatrical films only).

Share US programming that airs on 10 and ABC and its digital multichannels are sourced from 10 and ABC's deals ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks (Paramount TV) and StudioCanal / Sony Pictures Television International.

Since the merger of Viacom and CBS, 10's ViacomCBS was currently shared with Nine Network because the studio has too many of their rights for ViacomCBS deal which they need to leave room for Warner Bros. and Sony films and televisions and Nine was currently has secured a new content partnership with ViacomCBS after Stan. and Netflix has announced a partnership with Paramount Pictures that will give the streaming platform exclusive rights to a collection of TV and film products. While 10 and Nine are usually share the Nickelodeon deal, Nickelodeon televisions will split the seasons of the show (including Paw Patrol and SpongeBob SquarePants) which can aired in both channels of the same show (mainly 10 Peach and 9Go!) while Paramount films and DreamWorks films will moved from 10 to Nine.

Former programs

The network formerly broadcast catalogue movie and television titles from NBCUniversal produced in the 1990s prior to 2016, DreamWorks from 2012 to 2019, movie titles of Paramount from 1990s to 2019, and Miramax from 1990s to 2019. NBCUniversal, DreamWorks, Paramount, and Miramax now belong to Nine Network, Nine revived NBCUniversal, DreamWorks, Paramount, and Miramax broadcast rights.

From 2018 onwards, rival film and television rights with 20th Century Fox from 2008 to 2017 and Regency Enterprises from 2015 to 2017. Fox and Regency now belong to Seven Network and Nine Network, Seven and Nine revived 20th Century Fox and Regency broadcast rights.

On 21 February 2019, 10 Bold switched to an 24-hour live stream and 10 Peach added on 10 Play live stream service.

10 News First during Olympics and Commonwealth Games, International horse racing and Supercars Championship are not accessible through 10 Play live streaming service due to the digital broadcast rights being owned by IOC rights and Telstra for Supercars.