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Programming

WIN Television is a sole Nine Network affiliate in most broadcast areas, with Network Ten affiliation in regional Western Australia (combined with a predominant Nine Network affiliation), and Seven Network affiliation in eastern South Australia. WIN Television has always produced local programming, including the flagship local news service WIN News, that supplement programs sourced from affiliates. a Since inception the network has produced and broadcast notable programs including Sportsview and Sportsworld, a review of international, national and local sporting events. From the first week of transmissions children's television series The Channel 4 Club was produced, with children's television program Stopwatch beginning in 1979. English-language educational programme You Say the Word began in 1971, catering to non-English-speaking immigrants. Short-lived cooking show Variety Italian Style premiered in 1972, with Malcom Elliott initially hosting the long-running Tonight Show in 1981 being replaced by John Tingle years later. To commemorate WIN Television's 21st year of broadcasting, a one-and-half-hour retrospective montage special was produced in 1983. WIN Television also co-produced telemovie Last Chance in 1986 with a Canadian television production company. Spanning close to a decade, children's television series Goodsports was produced by WIN Television from 1991 to 2000.

WIN Television's current Australian programming productions consists of television shows including; Susie, Destinations, and Fishing Australia. On May 17, 2007, WIN Television announced a new midday program called Susie, however this was subsequently moved to a morning timeslot. WIN Television also broadcasts a range of exclusive overseas and domestically sourced programming including The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Brady Bunch and Good Chef Bad Chef.

News & Current Affairs

Further information: [[:WIN News]]

WIN News is the network's local news service. Twenty bulletins are presented from studios in Wollongong, Canberra, Ballarat, Mount Gambier and Rockhampton, in addition to National Nine News bulletins presented and produced from the network's metropolitan stations, STW in Perth, Western Australia and NWS in Adelaide. Although in most areas it is the only local news bulletin, in some markets it may compete with Prime News, Seven Local News, GWN News, or Southern Cross Nightly News.

WIN has produced independent news reports and bulletins since 1962 for its original Wollongong station. As well as the flagship nightly bulletin, WIN Television has in the past produced current affairs programming including community affairs program Roving Eye, and Sunday Review, a weekly review of international, national and local stories.

Schedule

See also: Nine Network § Current schedule

In regional Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland, WIN's schedule almost directly emulates that of the Nine Network. WIN News is shown at various times on a region-by region basis - at 6.00pm in regional Queensland, and 6.30pm in New South Wales, Canberra, Tasmania, and Victoria.

Since October, 2007 the network's stations in regional South Australia have begun to move towards primarily Seven Network programming. WIN News is shown at 6.xxpm following Seven News Adelaide. Previously, WIN Television in South Australia followed a predominantly Nine Network-based schedule.

In Western Australia, WIN is affiliated to both Network Ten and the Nine Network. Consequently, WIN WA's schedule offers a combination of both network's programming, with a number of otherwise live programs shown on delay. WIN News Western Australia is shown at 5.30pm, in direct competition with GWN News.