WIN Corporation

Infobox_Company
company_name = WIN Corporation Pty Ltd
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = March 18, 1962
location = Wollongong, Australia
key_people = Bruce Gordon, CEO/Owner
products = WIN Television
SelecTV
Crawford Productions
industry = Television network
Radio broadcasting
homepage = [http://www.wintv.com.au/about.php www.wintv.com.au]

WIN Corporation is an Australian based media corporation, that owns the WIN Television network, NWS, and STW in Australia.

Assets

Television

* WIN Television
** RTQ Queensland
** WIN Southern New South Wales
** VTV Victoria
** TVT Tasmania
** MTN Griffith
** WOW Western Australia
** SES/RTS South Australia
* NWS Adelaide
* STW Perth
* Mildura Digital Television (50% stake)
* Tasmanian Digital Television (50% stake)

Other

* SelecTV
* i98FM
* C91.3FM
* Crawford Productions
* Digital Distribution Australia
* SP Telemedia (13% stake)
* Ten Network Holdings (10% stake)
* St.George Illawarra Dragons (25% stake)

Television

WIN holds shares in PBL and Channel Ten.

In addition to this, WIN controls pay-TV provider SelecTV [http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/wins-23m-bid-snares-selectv/2006/08/11/1154803097530.html] , and has brought a stake in SP Telemedia, which sold fellow Nine affiliate NBN to PBL.

On April 21, 2007, the board of Sunraysia Television endorsed WIN's revised offer of $163 million for STW-9. [cite news | author = Sharples, Ben | title = WIN wins Perth station | work = Herald Sun | url = http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21593383-664,00.html | date = 2007-04-21] On May 30, 2007, Southern Cross Broadcasting announced its sale of NWS-9 to the WIN Corporation for $105 million. [ cite web
url = http://www.theage.com.au/news/Business/Southern-Cross-sells-Ch9-Adelaide-to-WIN/2007/05/30/1180205288805.html
title = WIN buys Channel 9 Adelaide
accessdate = 2007-05-30
date = 2007-05-30
work = AAP
publisher = theage.com.au ] On June 8, 2007, Sunraysia Television announced its sale of STW-9 to WIN Corporation for $163.1 million. [ cite web
url = http://www.theage.com.au/news/Business/Sunraysia-favours-Ch-9-Perth-sale-to-WIN/2007/06/08/1181089303443.html
title = Sunraysia favours Ch 9 Perth sale to WIN
accessdate = 2007-06-08
date = 2007-06-08
work = AAP
publisher = theage.com.au ]

Radio

WIN Corporation also owns two FM radio stations in New South Wales:

* i98FM Wollongong/Illawarra (call sign 2WIN, 98.1 MHz)
* C91.3FM Campbelltown (call sign 2MAC, 91.3 MHz)

References

ee also

* Regional television in Australia

External links

* [http://www.wintv.com.au WIN Television web site]
* [http://austv.hostforweb.com/cgi-bin/cgi2/index.rb?page=WIN4%20Wollongong&section=Television%20History%20Reference/TV%20Stations/WIN Australian Television Archive article on WIN4 Wollongong]
* [http://www.aba.gov.au/newspubs/radio_TV/licensing.shtml ABA radio and TV licensing web site]