| Callsign: | AMN |
| Location: | Griffith and the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area |
| Branding: | Nine, WIN |
| Digital: | 30 (UHF) |
| Virtual: | 8 |
| Affiliations: | Nine |
| Callsign Meaning: | Associated Media New South Wales |
| Sister Stations: | MTN |
| Former Channel Numbers: | Analogue: 31 |
| Owner: | WIN Corporation Pty Ltd |
| Licensee: | WIN Television Griffith Pty. Ltd.[1] |
| Former Affiliations: | 10 (1 July 2016 – 30 June 2021) Nine (5 June 2012 – 30 June 2016, 1 July 2021 – present) Seven (5 October 1997 – 5 June 2012) |
| Erp: | See table below |
| Haat: | 418 m[2] |
| Licensing Authority: | ACMA |
| Coordinates: | See table below |
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.
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.
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. 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. 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.
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.
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.
See also: WIN 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.
See also: List of digital television channels in Australia. The following is a list of channels broadcast on AMN.
AMN–30:
| LCN | Channel | |
| 8 | Nine Network | |
| 80 | 9HD | |
| 81 | 9Gem | |
| 82 | 9Go! | |
| 83 | 9Life | |
| 84 | TVSN | |
| 85 | Gold |