AMN (TV station)
Television station in Griffith and Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, Australia
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AMN is a television station licensed to serve Griffith and the surrounding Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (M.I.A.). The station is owned and operated by WIN Corporation as a Nine Network affiliate, WIN Television.
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| Channels | |
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| Branding | Nine, WIN |
| Programming | |
| Language | English |
| Network | WIN Television |
| Affiliations | Nine |
| Ownership | |
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| MTN | |
| History | |
First air date | 5 October 1997 |
Former channel number | Analogue: 31 |
| Seven (1997–2012) Nine (2012–2016) Ten (2016–2021) | |
Call sign meaning | Associated Media New South Wales |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | ACMA |
| ERP | See table below |
| HAAT | 418 m[2] |
| Transmitter coordinates | See table below |
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Public licence information | Profile |
WIN Television is the sole commercial television broadcaster in the Griffith and M.I.A. area, also providing MTN, a Seven Network affiliate, and a Network 10 affiliate MDN, a supplementary station.
History
The Australian Broadcasting Authority relaxed the rules regarding station ownership in solus markets in the mid-1990s.[3] The changes allowed for one company to operate two stations without competition, provided the Authority did not have reason to believe another company would be interested.[4] MTN applied for a Section 38A licence in 1995, and after being refused once, challenged the Authority, and was successful on appeal – ultimately being granted the second license on 18 July 1996.[4] The second channel launched on 5 October 1997, on UHF channel 31 using the callsign AMN.[citation needed] It was a direct feed of Prime Television Orange, with the exception of its local news, which AMN replaced with an alternative program.[5][3][6] Since then, AMN has changed from being a direct feed of Prime7 to being a feed of Seven Network Sydney.[when?][citation needed]
WIN Corporation brought MTN and AMN from then-owner Associated Media Investments on 6 July 1998.[7]
As part of Australia's digital transition, AMN ceased broadcasting in analogue on 5 June 2012.[8]
On 1 July 2016, to reflect WIN's new affiliation agreement with Network Ten, AMN and MDN swapped affiliates – with AMN becoming a Ten affiliate while MDN became a Nine affiliate.[9][10][11]
On 1 July 2021, to reflect WIN's new affiliation agreement with Nine Network, AMN and MDN swapped affiliates – with AMN becoming a Nine affiliate while MDN became a 10 affiliate.
Programming
AMN carries programming from Nine Network, which includes the 9 News Sydney bulletin as well as the southern NSW/Wagga Wagga WIN News bulletin. The station also carries the Sydney feeds of 9Gem, 9Go! and 9Life.
News
WIN News Griffith (formerly MTN9 News) was a local news bulletin broadcast on MTN.[3] The news bulletin premiered the same year as MTN launched, seeing it run for over forty years.[12] WIN News Griffith was axed in August 2006, with WIN Television amalgamating the news bulletins from Griffith and Wagga Wagga into one Riverina bulletin presented from WIN's Wollongong studios[13] The last bulletin aired on 18 August 2006.[14] Following the bulletin's cancellation, WIN maintained a journalist, sport reporter and camera operator in Griffith to produce news stories, however, in 2013 this staff was reduced to a single video journalist, and then in 2015 was removed entirely to be replaced by a roving journalist from the Wagga Wagga station.[15][16] Following the cancellation of the bulletin, Griffith City Council petitioned regional broadcasters in neighbouring areas to present a local news bulletin.[12] This has since been abandoned.
In November 2025, WIN News relaunched a local news bulletin for the Griffith and MIA region. The bulletin is presented by Bruce Roberts from the networks Wollongong studios.[17]
Channels
The following is a list of channels broadcast on AMN.
AMN–30:
