{"id":688613,"date":"2026-05-23T02:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688613\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T02:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:47:14","slug":"regional-western-australia-darwin-next-on-win-hitlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688613\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional Western Australia, Darwin next on WIN hitlist."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAfter South Australia and Griffith, WIN CEO warns of more switch-off.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>WIN chief executive Andrew Lancaster has warned more areas are set to lose access to some channels in regional Western Australia and Darwin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWIN has long signalled that we will not continue with unprofitable aspects of our business and the 10 signals in South Australia and Griffith fall into that category,\u201d CEO Andrew Lancaster told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/media-and-marketing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Financial Review.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhilst we understand the disruption this may cause, our focus is on ensuring our core Nine business in regional Australia is as strong as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cServices that are not profitable such as 10 in regional Western Australia and Darwin are likely to stop broadcasting in the next six months,\u201d Lancaster added.<\/p>\n<p>Lancaster said the networks\u2019 survival had been prolonged by government intervention, but it had become economically unviable.<\/p>\n<p>WIN is also in the process of purchasing Territory TV from Nine, in which it is a major shareholder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After South Australia and Griffith, WIN CEO warns of more switch-off. WIN chief executive Andrew Lancaster has warned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-688613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}