Nine Network

The Nine Network is an Australian television network, available in major markets across Australia.

On Air

Entertainment

Channel Nine is Australia's highest rating television network. In 2005 Seven has had a major ratings resurgance, scaring Channel Nine and even winning consecutive weeks. Channel Nine relies heavily on overseas programming, some of which is:

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• Without a Trace
• Cold Case
• ER
• Survivor
• Super Nanny

Channel Nine also produces alot of Australian programming, some of which has been heavily critisised for being "cheap" or "cheesy":

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• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
• Celebrity Overhaul
• Skating on Thin Ice
• Celebrity Circus
• The Alice (axed for 2006)
• McLeods Daughters
• Getaway
• Australia's Funniest Home Video Show
• Backyard Blitz
• The Footy Show (AFL and NRL versions)

For full list of Nine's television programs see:

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• List of Nine Network programs

Sport

Nine base their summer schedule around broadcasts of cricket, for which it has owned the local broadcast rights since World Series Cricket in the late 1970s. Its cricket broadcasts in that era revolutionised the way the sport was covered, featuring camera placed at both ends of the field (after Packer famously complained about seeing "cricketer's bums" every second over), instant replays, and other innovations. In 2002 Nine acquired broadcast rights for Friday night and Sunday games in the Australian Football League, the elite Australian Rules Football competition, displacing the Seven Network which had held the rights for over 40 years. The deal assigned the rights for finals broadcasting to Network Ten, a deal which reportedly flabbergasted Packer. Nine hold the broadcast rights to the following:

Related Topics:
Cricket - World Series Cricket - 1970s

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• AFL Premiership Season (Joint with Network Ten)
• NRL Premiership Season and Finals (Joint with Foxtel)
• 3 Test Series
• ICC Super Series 2005
• Telstra Swimming Championships
• Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games
• The Wimbledon Championships
• The US Tennis Open
• The US Golf Open
• The British Golf Open

News

The Nine Network's news service is called National Nine News. National Nine News was always Australia's top rating and most comprehensive news service, until the last few years when it has been historically toppled by arch rival Seven News. National Nine News produces the following bullitens/programs:

Related Topics:
National Nine News - Seven News

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• Today- 6am-9am
• - 11.00am
• - 4.30pm
• National Nine News- 6.00pm
• Nightline- 11.30pm

National Nine News also assist in production of:

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• 60 Minutes

Callsigns

Callsigns for Nine Network stations in the capital cities:

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• TCN-9, Sydney
• GTV-9, Melbourne
• QTQ-9, Brisbane
• NTD-8, Darwin

Affiliates

Nine Network programming is also carried by the following affiliate networks:

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Southern Cross

• NWS-9 - Adelaide

Sunraysia Television

• STW-9 - Perth

WIN Television

• WIN - Griffith
• WIN - Southern New South Wales
• WIN - Victoria
• WIN - Queensland
• WIN - Tasmania
• WIN - Spencer Gulf
• WIN - Western Australia (non-exclusive)

NBN Television

• NBN - Northern New South Wales

Imparja

• Imparja - Satellite (including remote South Australia, Northern Territory)