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:
“We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home forever or revamp the world before they get there. Merely keeping them in the dark is no protection and, in fact, can make them vulnerable and immature.”
—Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator.”
—Marc Fumaroli (b. 1932)