Gold (Australian TV channel)

Gold
Launched	1 May 2012
Network	WIN Television
Owned by	WIN Corporation
Picture format	576i (SDTV) 16:9
Slogan	Go for Gold
Country	Australia
Language	English
Formerly called	WIN Gold (1–5 May 2012)
Sister channel(s)	WIN WIN HD
Timeshift service	Gold2 (13 July 2013 – 21 January 2016)
Website	wintv.com.au/page/gold
Availability
Terrestrial
Freeview WIN regional (virtual)	86
Satellite
VAST (virtual)	86

Gold (stylised as GOLD) is an Australian advertorial datacasting channel that launched on 1 May 2012 by the WIN Corporation.^[1] It is available to homes in regional WIN Television viewing areas on virtual channel 86.^[2] The channel broadcasts mostly infomercials, as well as education, lifestyle, community programming as well as television classics from the Crawfords library.

History

Gold2 logo

On 26 April 2012, a test broadcast commenced on virtual channel 84 with the channel name "TBA". On 30 April 2012, the broadcast changed to a screen informing viewers that WIN Gold would commence on 1 May 2012. The channel launched at 6am and was initially branded as "WIN Gold", until it was changed to simply Gold on 5 May 2012. WIN launched a second datacasting channel, Gold2, on 13 July 2013 as a five-hour timeshift of Gold located on channel 82.^[3] Gold2 was replaced by the Nine Network's metropolitan informercial channel eXtra on 21 January 2016. With the launch of WIN HD on channel 80 (formerly occupied by 9Gem) and 9Life on channel 84 (occupied by Gold), WIN's channel listing was reshuffled to mirror Nine's metropolitan listing with 9Gem on channel 82, 9Go! on channel 83, 9Life on channel 84, eXtra on channel 85 and Gold on channel 86.

References

1. Knox, David (1 May 2012). "WIN GOLD launches on Channel 84". TV Tonight. Retrieved 3 May 2012.
2. "About Us – GOLD". WIN Television. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
3. Knox, David (13 July 2013). "WIN launches GOLD2". TV Tonight. Retrieved 13 July 2013.