‘The great geoblock of Wollongong’: Bruce Gordon tells Nine to turn off live streaming, but to what end?
Bruce Gordon’s WIN has launched legal action to block Nine’s live streaming service 9Now in regional areas. Nic Christensen looks at the competing agendas that may be behind the move and the odds of the regional TV player being successful.
I’m willing to bet Bruce Gordon isn’t the first media mogul to dream of switching off the internet.
WIN’s surprise legal action isn’t quite the equivalent of demanding that the “interweb” be turned off for his viewers, in areas such as Wollongong, Canberra and Mildura and other regional hubs (like most of Tasmania and Western Australian), that fall within his broadcast areas. But it’s definitely up there in ‘outside the box’ legal demands made by an Australian media mogul.
Congratulations on writing the first article about Gordon to not mention his age in the first para. 87, as you asked.
Damn kids! Damn kids and their internet and their loud doof-doof music!
I fought and died in 3 world wars so Wollongong could be protected from the modern crazy ways of those gay muslim lesbians that seek to change the way we live.
Lets keep the internet and streaming out of Wollongong so we can keep it as the utopian village it once was.
oh! got to go… the latest 1960’s rerun of Bruce Gingel News broadcast will be on right after Romper Room.
You clearly have no idea how much Win pays Nine for that content. That’s all this is about.
Funny – old people running archaic, failing organisations vigorously trying to hold onto their own old-school distribution agreements that made them so much money in the past….. when their customers just want open access, and are probably not watching the content on their platform anyway. Is there a defibrillator in the room?
Helensburgh will not stand for this!
Still impossible not to describe him as the ‘Bermuda-based billionaire’ though.
“WIN’s surprise legal action isn’t quite the equivalent of demanding that the “interweb” be turned off for his viewers, in areas such as Wollongong, Canberra and Mildura and other regional hubs (like most of Tasmania and Western Australian), that fall within his broadcast areas. But it’s definitely up there in ‘outside the box’ legal demands made by an Australian media mogul.”
Oh, so will this automatically be L.A.W. in about, 6 months, or does Rupert have to say it before it becomes our only worldview?
Which oligarch gets the big chair in Australia this week?
Daddy.
Bermuda-based billionaire.
Just gotta love that alliteration. Jealous, cause in decades of writing, I never once got me a story that allowed for “Bermuda- based billionaire!
I live north of Wollongong so don’t worry Gordon the internet is so bad “streaming” live content is just a pipe dream…we hope to be able to stream content in some point in the next 10-20 years.
Can’t wait…
Does anyone think of the viewer anymore? Hey TV execs, there is actually someone behind the glass… maybe not for much longer.
WIN dragged its heels on introducing digital TV – which was paid for entirely by the government – and got it running only within the last few weeks of the year when the money was provided the year before.
WIN refuses to provide any of the new channels and has consistently campaigned to reduce the number of channels that is currently broadcasts.
They run a campaign on their own channels demanding changing the laws so they can flog their network to Murdoch (The Bruce Gordon Retirement Plan), on the spurious grounds of protecting local news (which they have generally closed anyway).
Quick – hold back the tide – I’m sure there’s a way… Seriously? I’m with you Bluey.
It’s to do with the government and their reach laws. Not 9.
We will not let progress stand in the way of our antiquated business models!
People still watch that crap?
Surely it’s more to do with the amount that WIN pay 9 for re-broadcasting their content. WIN currently pay 39% of revenue and 9 want 50% of the dwindling revenue. Revenue which will dry up with the streaming of the content from 9 in Sydney. Its purely a negotiating point.
“Old man yells at cloud.”
And the Murdoch Government (headed up by Abbott/Turnbull) is nobbling the NBN for purely sensible reasons (“we’re from the government, we’re here to help you”) and CERTAINLY NOT to make it a weakened competitor to the free-to-air-but-here’s-a-word-from-our-sponsors television status quo.
Sadly, younger folk (the future) are voting with their feet.
Even grown-ups are watching less reruns.
If 9NOW live streaming is shut off will 9NOW’s catch up service still be available to regional viewers?
Solution: WIN’s own streaming service