WIN Corporation
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| Private | |
| Industry |
Free To Air Television Pay Television Television Production Radio broadcasting Telecommunications |
| Founded | 18 March 1962 |
| Headquarters | Wollongong, Australia |
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Key people
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Bruce Gordon, Deputy Chairman/Owner Andrew Gordon, Executive Chairman |
| Products |
WIN Television Crawford Productions |
| Owner | Birketu Pty Ltd. |
| Website | www.wintv.com.au |
WIN Corporation is a private Australian media company, that owns assets including the WIN Television network, Crawford Productions and several local radio stations. The company is based in Wollongong, New South Wales.
The WIN brand began from a sole free-to-air terrestrial television station in Wollongong, WIN-4, owned by Television Wollongong Transmissions (TWT). In 1979, then-owner Rupert Murdoch sold his 76 per cent controlling interest in TWT to Oberon Broadcasters, a private investment group which included Paramount Television programming executive Bruce Gordon. This allowed Murdoch to purchase Sydney station TEN-10. In 1985, TWT was made public on the-then as TWT Holdings Limited with Gordon retaining a 70 per cent stake. Gordon privatised the business in 1992 to become WIN Corporation.
In the late 1980s, the Federal Government's television equalisation program (known as aggregation) gave Gordon the opportunity to initiate a period of growth by acquiring television stations in regional Queensland, Victoria, and Tasmania. In the late 1990s, WIN acquired their South Australian station and developed a new Western Australian station from scratch. These stations were integrated into what is now known as the WIN Network. WIN is the largest regional television broadcaster in Australia and the fourth largest television broadcaster in Australia (behind metropolitan networks Nine, Seven, and Ten) covering an area greater in size than Europe. The WIN Network has a total audience reach of 4.842 million people.
Through Bruce Gordon's leadership, in the late 1990s and 2000s, WIN built stakes in PBL, Network Ten, and TPG Telecom. TPG Telecom was at the time known as SP Telemedia and owned fellow Nine affiliate NBN Television.
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