After months of negotiations and more than a fair share of hostility – even as recent as only days ago (see previous post) – the Nine Network and regional WIN Television have patched up their tattered relationship.

WIN has announced that it has signed a five-year agreement to source programming from Nine for its regional network and also its recently-purchased STW9 in Perth.

The deal will be a welcome relief for both networks as failure to come to an agreement could have had dire effects for either party, and also the viewers in WIN’s coverage areas that could have lost their Nine Network programs – although for those in South Australia’s south east and Riverland districts the deal may be too late as WIN has signed those respective stations to a program deal with the Seven Network.