Television
WIN holds shares in PBL and Channel Ten, plus owns a stake in SP Telemedia, which sold fellow Nine affiliate NBN Television to PBL.
On 21 April 2007, the board of Sunraysia Television endorsed WIN's revised offer of $163 million for STW-9. On 30 May 2007, Southern Cross Broadcasting announced its sale of NWS-9 to the WIN Corporation for $105 million. On 8 June 2007, Sunraysia Television announced its sale of STW-9 to WIN Corporation for $163.1 million.
WIN also as of 4 June 2009 owns 18.4% of Quickflix, the Australian provider of online DVD rental and Movie downloads.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“... there is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)
“In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion—or a new form of Christianity—based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.”
—New Yorker (April 23, 1990)