Extra (Australian TV channel)
| Country | Australia |
|---|---|
| Network | Nine Network |
| Headquarters | Sydney, New South Wales |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Nine Entertainment Co. |
9Extra is an Australian advertorial datacasting channel and a sister channel to the Nine Network, launched on 26 March 2012. The channel broadcasts mainly infomercials as well as home shopping, religion, community, educational, multi-cultural programming as well as stories taken from Nine Network programs including A Current Affair, Getaway, Today and Today Extra.[2][3][4]
History
On 28 March 2013 Extra 2 was launched as a five-hour timeshift of Extra.[5] As a result, the quality of sister channel GEM was cut.[6]
On 26 November 2015, Nine's new lifestyle channel 9Life launched in metropolitan areas on channel 94, replacing the primary broadcast of Extra, which moved to channel 95, replacing Extra 2.[7] However, Extra and Extra 2 remained in broadcast on regional Nine affiliate NBN on channels 94 and 95 respectively in place of 9Life. On 19 January 2016, Extra replaced WIN's five-hour timeshift of their datacasting channel Gold on channel 82. With the coming launch of WIN and NBN's high definition simulcasts in 2016, their channel listings will be reshuffled to mirror Nine's metropolitan listing, moving Extra to channel 85 in place of Extra 2 which will be closed.[8][9]
Availability
Extra is available in standard definition in metropolitan areas through Nine Network owned-and-operated stations: TCN Sydney, GTV Melbourne, QTQ Brisbane, NWS Adelaide and STW Perth as well as NBN Northern New South Wales.
Logo and identity history
en GO! was in development stages, the concept name was revealed as GO!99 on 14 April 2009 with a black and white concept logo.[10] On 15 July 2009, news program A Current Affair confirmed the name as GO! along with a scheme of multi-coloured logos based on the original concept logo.[11][12] On 2 February 2014, the channel's branding was refreshed with a new, 3D glossy logo with multi-coloured gradient variants. Following the network-wide rebrand on 26 November 2015, the channel was renamed 9Go! with the famous "nine dots" from Nine's logo integrated into then-current logo, but with the O in lowercase.[13] WIN Television has a variant of the GO! logo with the aforementioned channel's logo above GO!'s 2009-2014 logo.
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26 March 2012 – 4 May 2017
Identity history
- 26 March 2012 – 4 May 2017: Get More
- 4 May 2017 – present: Fun to Week (second era)
See also
References
- ^ "DTT Register of Service IDs" (PDF). FreeTV. 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
- ^ "Nine to launch Extra". Media Spy. 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
- ^ David Knox (2012). "Nine Launches Extra". TV Tonight. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
- ^ "Nine launches Extra on Channel 94". Mediaweek. 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
- ^ David Knox (2013). "Extra channel timeshifted by Nine". TV Tonight. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
- ^ AndrewB (2013). "What is Extra 2? Channel 95? Another free to air channel?". Throng.com.au. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
- ^ Barrett, Dan (28 October 2015). "Nine 2016 Upfront: Plans to broadcast in HD and launch new lifestyle FTA channel". mediaweek.com.au. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
- ^ Knox, David (8 February 2016). "9HD, 9Life coming to NBN Newcastle". TV Tonight. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
- ^ Knox, David (10 February 2016). "No 7flix for Prime, new channels "soon" for WIN". TV Tonight. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
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